单词 | threshold |
释义 | threshold (θreʃhoʊld ) Word forms: thresholds 1. countable noun [usually singular] The threshold of a building or room is the floor in the doorway, or the doorway itself. He stopped at the threshold of the bedroom. [+ of] The bride was carried over the threshold. Synonyms: entrance, doorway, door, doorstep 2. countable noun [noun NOUN] A threshold is an amount, level, or limit on a scale. When the threshold is reached, something else happens or changes. She has a low threshold of boredom and needs the constant stimulation of physical activity. [+ of] The consensus has clearly shifted in favour of raising the nuclear threshold. Fewer than forty per cent voted–the threshold for results to be valid. Synonyms: limit, margin, starting point, minimum 3. on the threshold of phrase If you are on the threshold of something exciting or new, you are about to experience it. We are on the threshold of a new era in astronomy. Collocations: income threshold Issues such as the level of the income threshold used remained to be worked through, the source added. Times, Sunday Times It has now reduced the income threshold for the means-tested maintenance grant by 17 per cent to 50,020. Times, Sunday Times If he wants to direct specific help at poorer families, he should raise the income threshold at which people begin to pay tax. Times, Sunday Times However, the government has widened access to state support by raising the household income threshold for student grants. Times, Sunday Times Changes include a proposed fiveyear freeze on the 21,000 income threshold before loans must be repaid, meaning more graduates will face earlier repayments. Times, Sunday Times Plans to increase the threshold at which people start paying the 40p rate of income tax to £80,000 have been shelved. Times,Sunday Times The board has the discretion to increase that threshold to nine times salary for the next chief executive. Times, Sunday Times He said that it would be a top priority to increase the threshold 'dramatically'. Times, Sunday Times Ministers want to increase the threshold required for action in ballots of union members, especially in essential public services. Times, Sunday Times I don't think it's good enough just to increase the threshold. Times, Sunday Times The doctor said I had a low pain threshold and that was why I was uncomfortable. The Sun (2011) And partly by what I freely admit is a shockingly low threshold of culinary acceptability on my part. Times, Sunday Times (2014) I have a very low boredom threshold. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Economists said the most likely outcome was that the maximum threshold would be lowered from the current level of 600,000. Times, Sunday Times On average, a prop will cover 6km during a game, running at more than 70 per cent of their maximum threshold for 1,500 metres. Times, Sunday Times The first division jackpot has a maximum threshold of $400,000. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Several other states observe maximum thresholds that are lower than the maxima provided by federal law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, a minimum salary threshold is to be imposed on employees of international companies transferring to work in Britain. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The Government is also to raise its minimum threshold for primary school results next year. Times, Sunday Times (2013) One strategy may be raising the minimum tax threshold, for example. Times, Sunday Times (2011) He has spoken in the past of having a high pain threshold and continuing to play without complaint. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Some people have a pain threshold very low and others have it very high. The Sun (2006) It enables athletes to raise their pain threshold. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The court, he argued, could not impose on a person challenging extradition a threshold requirement of demonstrating that his case was exceptional. Times, Sunday Times In fact, establishing a threshold requirement would have made liturgical expense mandatory instead of voluntary, and caused the city difficulty in the event of widespread impoverishment of its individual members. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The shear threshold requirement seems counterintuitive because increasing shear elevates the force applied to adhesive bonds and it would seem that this should increase the dislodging ability. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to the modified threshold requirements, the 1999 revisions introduced several other changes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Threshold requirements identify the maximum curb weight of the vehicle at 4,500 lb with a range of 250mi km. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The amounts that can be released will be subject to a guideline upper threshold, possibly £10,000. Times,Sunday Times Don't just sit back because your readings come in under the current upper threshold. Times, Sunday Times Social services said that because she owns a house worth 100,000, more than the 22,250 upper threshold, she would have to 'self-fund'. Times, Sunday Times At the same time, there will be an upper threshold to prevent from cell aggregation for counting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We begin by using the upper threshold to find the start of an edge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 门口, 门槛 Japanese: 戸口, 限界 |
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