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THRESHOLD , the door-See also: sill, the piece of See also: stone or
See also: wood which is placed at the bottom of a door, See also: gate, or entrance to a See also: house or other See also: building
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The word is used in psychology as the See also: equivalent of Ger
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Schwelle and of See also: Lat. limen, i.e. the lowest limit of sensation, the point at which the intensity of sensation becomes just noticeable
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Etymologically threshold (O
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Eng. herscold, M
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Eng. hreswold) has usually been divided " thresh," i.e. thrash, beat, and wold, wald, wood; the word meaning the pieces of wood beaten or trampled by the feet
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The termination, as is shown by the Old See also: English See also: form, has probably no connexion with wald, but is merely a suffix, as in O
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H
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Ger. driscilfli, threshold
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The first See also: part is certainly " thrash," beat; some have supposed that in early times the entrance to a house was used as a threshing-floor
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