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threshold
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)
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- (by extension) An entrance; the door or gate of a house.
- (by extension) Any end or boundary.
- (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.'
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi:
- (aviation) The start of the landing area of a runway.
- (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
- 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
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origin
English
Etymology
From Middle English origine, origyne, from Old French origine, orine, ourine, from Latin origo (“beginning, source, birth, origin”), from orior (“to rise”); see orient. Doublet of origo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/, /???.?.d??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/, /???.d??n/
- (NYC) IPA(key): /???.?.d??n/
Noun
origin (plural origins)
- The beginning of something.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
- Synonym: source
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- Synonym: zero vector
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
Synonyms
- (beginning): See Thesaurus:beginning
Antonyms
- (beginning): end
- (source): destination
- (anatomy): insertion
Derived terms
Related terms
- orient
Translations
See also
- provenance
Further reading
- origin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- origin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- nigori
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