A horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway

Usage examples of threshold.

Whereas our attention was first drawn to the intensity of the elements of virtuality that constituted the multitude, now it must focus on the hypothesis that those virtualities accumulate and reach a threshold of realization adequate to their power.

Captain Barker, who for more than two years had not crossed its threshold.

Elias Bedo within the cabin, and the Dane on its threshold, between the parted folds of the curtain that screened the doorway.

Some ten minutes elapsed without her re-appearing, and then Bernard stepped to the threshold of the window and looked for her.

Siobhan stood just over the threshold, wondering whether to stretch out her own hand, but Bessant had turned back into the room.

The subject identifies himself simultaneously with both the victims and the aggressive forces of such conflicts, and as the intensity of the general agony mounts, it approaches and finally breaks beyond the pain threshold in an excruciating crisis of what Dr.

From the apparently indivisible quanta of physical energy, to the boundaries between the solid, liquid and gaseous states - the manyness of the energy patterns is prevented from becoming one homogeneous and ill-defined spectrum by threshold effects.

Stopping on the threshold, the mariachi saw the other crooks around the card table, and turned questioningly toward Murk, who told him to step inside.

As Maron said, he was standing on the threshold of exactly the life that he had always dreamed about living.

A threshold of public tolerance has been breached: Metastatic growth is no longer seen as necessary for prosperity.

Candida stood blinking on the threshold, the Misses Benevent rose from two small golden chairs placed on either side of the hearth.

The waitingmaids, who have escorted me to the door, fall on all fours as a final salute, and remain prostrate on the threshold as long as I am still in sight down the dark pathway, where the rain trickles off the great overarching bracken upon my head.

If there is anything we have not told you, it has been only to save you distress while you were overwearied and ill with threshold sickness.

Crossing the threshold into the swarming temple of unknown darkness, I turned once to look at the outside world as the churchyard phosphorescence cast a sickly glow on the hilltop pavement.

Gilded with gold leaf hammered over a relief carved into the wood itself, the doors displayed scenes from the Ekstasis of the blessed Daisan, who prayed and fasted for seven days as his soul ascended through the seven spheres to the threshold of the Chamber of Light.