different between door vs threshold

English

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek ???? (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish ?????? (derge), derî, Persian ??? (dar), Russian ????? (dver?), Hindi ????? (dv?r) / ????? (dv?r), Armenian ???? (du?), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: d?r?, IPA^(key): /do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /do?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
• Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
• Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figuratively) A barrier.

6. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

Hyponyms

• front door
• sliding door

Derived terms

Related terms

Meronyms

Translations

See also

• gate

Verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?r/
• Hyphenation: door
• Rhymes: -o?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch d?re, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

door

1. through

   Hij schoot de bal door het raam.

   He kicked the ball through the window.

2. across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

3. because of, due to

   Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.

   Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.

4. by, by means of

   Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.

   He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.

Inflection

Synonyms

(because of):

• vanwege

Derived terms

Related terms

• door-
• door middel van

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Adverb

door

1. through
2. forward, on

   Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.

   Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.

3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)

   Ik rijd nu de stad door.

   I'm now driving through the city.

4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

5. (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

door m (plural doren)

1. (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
   • 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.

     Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!

   Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot

Related terms

• dwaas

Anagrams

• oord, rood

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dolor (“pain”), dol?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.?o?/

Noun

door f (plural doores)

1. pain
   • 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:

     ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar

     And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.

Related terms

• doorida, doorido
• doorosa

Descendants

• Galician: dor
• Portuguese: dor
  • Kabuverdianu: dór

Scots

Alternative forms

• dour

Etymology

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du?r]

Noun

door (plural doors)

1. door

Further reading

• “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Somali

Verb

door

1. to choose

English

Etymology

From Middle English threschwolde, threscholde, from Old English þres?old, þerxold, þrexwold (“doorsill, entryway”), from Proto-Germanic *þreskudlaz, *þresk?þlijaz, *þreskwaþluz, from Proto-Germanic *þreskan?, *þreskwan? (“to thresh”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, turn”). Cognate with Low German Drüssel (“threshold”), dialectal German Drischaufel, Drissufle, Trüschübel (“threshold”), Danish tærskel (“threshold”), Swedish tröskel (“threshold”), dialectal Swedish träskvald (“threshold”), Icelandic þröskuldur (“threshold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???e?(h)??ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????(h)o?ld/

Noun

threshold (plural thresholds)

1. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
2. (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
3. (by extension) Any end or boundary.
4. (figuratively) The outset of something; the point of entry, or the beginning of an action.
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:

     I arrived at last, did obeisance to my uncle, and told him everything. He thought it over and said: ' […] At the threshold of death, how dare I give you permission to go to England, to cross the seas? But I will not stand in your way. It is your mother's permission which really matters. If she permit you, then godspeed! Tell her I will not interfere. You will go with my blessings.'

5. (aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.
6. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
7. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
8. The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things in general. As in emotions, stress, or pain.

Derived terms

• thresholding
• thresholdless
• thresholdlike

(Expressions:)

• displaced threshold
• Micawber threshold
• threshold braking
• threshold effect
• threshold potential
• threshold worker

Antonyms

• (bottom-most part of a doorway): lintel

Translations