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Etymology
Old English þrescold
This comes from the practice of placing a board to prevent the thresh or straw from leaving the house. Thresh was placed on stone floors to aid in traction.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- context|by extension An entrance
- 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 outset of an action or project
Translations
trans-top|bottom-most part of a doorway
Czech: práh m
Dutch: drempel
trans-mid
trans-bottom
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Albanian: prag m
Arabic: ARchar|العتبة
Bulgarian: праг (prag) m
Catalan: llindar m
CJKV Characters: 檻, 槛
Croatian: prag m
Danish: tærskel m and f
Finnish: kynnys, kynnysarvo, raja
French: seuil m
German: Schwelle f
Hebrew: סף
Hungarian: küszöb
mid
Icelandic: þröskuldur m
Italian: soglia f
Lithuanian: slenkstism
Norwegian: terskel m
Persian: ARchar|آستانه
Portuguese: umbral,limiar, limite, padrão mÃnimo m
Romanian: prag f and m
Russian: порог (porog)
Slovak: prah m
Spanish: umbral m
Swedish: tröskel
Telugu: à°®à±à°–à°¦à±à°µà°¾à°°à°‚ (mukhadvaaraM), వాకిలి (vaakili)
Turkish: eÅŸik
Greek: κατώφλι
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