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• thresh|old — «THREHSH ohld, hohld», noun. 1. a piece of wood or stone under a door; doorsill. 2. the entrance to a house or building; doorway. 3. Figurative. a point of entering; beginning point: »to be at the threshold of war. The scientist was on the… …   Useful english dictionary

• thresh·old — /ˈθrɛʃˌhoʊld/ noun, pl olds [count] 1 : a piece of wood, metal, or stone that forms the bottom of a door and that you walk over as you enter a room or building He stepped across the threshold. When they were married he carried her over the… …   Useful english dictionary

• threshold — thresh|old [ˈθreʃhəuld, ʃəuld US ould] n [: Old English; Origin: threscwald] 1.) the entrance to a room or building, or the area of floor or ground at the entrance ▪ She opened the door and stepped across the threshold. 2.) the level at which… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• threshold — thresh|old [ θreʃ,hould ] noun count 1. ) a limit at which an arrangement changes. For example a tax threshold is the level of income or profit at which you start to pay a tax: above/below a threshold: The company s turnover is well below the tax …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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• threshold — [OE] The first element of threshold is identical with English thresh [OE]. This seems to go back ultimately to a prehistoric source that denoted ‘making noise’ (the apparently related Old Church Slavonic tresku meant ‘crash’, and Lithuanian has… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• threshold — [OE] The first element of threshold is identical with English thresh [OE]. This seems to go back ultimately to a prehistoric source that denoted ‘making noise’ (the apparently related Old Church Slavonic tresku meant ‘crash’, and Lithuanian has… …   Word origins

• Serbian Christmas traditions — An icon representing the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The Serbian Orthodox Church uses the traditional Julian Calendar. From 1900 until 2100, the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian and therefore Serbian Christmas Day falls on 7 January… …   Wikipedia

• BEN ZOMA, SIMEON — (second century), tanna. A contemporary of akiva , he appears to have studied under joshua b. hananiah (Naz. 8:1, and cf. Tos. Ḥag. 2:6). The Mishnah says that he was the last of the authoritative biblical expositors (Sot. 9:15). According to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• kick — v 1.Sl. boot, Obs. foot, kick away; Football. punt, drop kick, place kick; (all of the foot) strike, hit, tap; propel, push, shove. 2. recoil, backlash, react; spring back, rebound, resile, bounce back, snap back; kick back, fly back, return,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• bolt — Synonyms and related words: AWOL, French leave, Irish confetti, Jupiter Fulgur, Thor, abscond, absence without leave, absquatulate, absquatulation, apostacize, apostasy, apostatize, arrow, arrowhead, articulate, assort, attach, backsliding, bale …   Moby Thesaurus