Synonyms of the word

threshold

• n. The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
• n. (by extension) An entrance.
• n. The start of the landing area of a runway.
• n. (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.
• n. The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due.
• n. The outset of an action or project.
• n. The point where one mentally or physically is vulnerable in response to provocation or to particular things…
• n. The point of beginning or entry.

aesthesis

• n. Alternative spelling of esthesis.

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

• n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
• n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
• n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

brink

• n. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
• n. (figuratively) The edge or border.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

door

• n. A portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors…
• n. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
• n. (immigration) An entry point.
• n. A non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
• n. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on…
• v. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist…

doorsill

• n. The horizontal piece of wood, stone or metal at the threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.

doorstep

• n. Step of a door. The threshold of a doorway.
• n. (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
• n. A big slice of bread.
• v. (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

doorway

• n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

edge

• n. The boundary line of a surface.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
• n. An advantage.
• n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
• n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
• n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
• v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

entrance

• n. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
• n. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
• n. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
• n. (uncountable) The right to go in.
• n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
• n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
• n. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
• n. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
• n. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.
• v. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
• v. (transitive) To put into a trance.

entranceway

• n. Something that provides access to an entrance; an entryway.

entree

• n. Alternative form of entrée.

entry

• n. (uncountable) The act of entering.
• n. (uncountable) Permission to enter.
• n. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
• n. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to…
• n. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help…
• n. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or…
• n. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
• n. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods;…
• n. (music) When a musician starts to play or sing, entrance.

entryway

• n. An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure.

esthesis

• n. (philosophy, psychology) Elemental awareness of sensory stimulation.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

get-go

• n. (colloquial) The beginning.

kickoff

• n. Alternative spelling of kick-off.

limen

• n. A liminal point; the threshold of a physiological or psychological response.

offset

• n. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
• n. (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within…
• n. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
• n. A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the…
• n. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
• n. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base…
• n. The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
• n. (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular…
• n. An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly…
• n. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
• n. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
• n. (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by…
• v. To compensate for something.
• v. To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

outset

• n. the beginning or initial stage of something.

sensation

• n. A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
• n. A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.

showtime

• n. The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
• n. (figuratively) The time for action.
• interj. A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.

sill

• n. (architecture) (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
• n. (construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings…
• n. (geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
• n. A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
• n. (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
• n. (Britain) A young herring.
• n. The shaft or thill of a carriage.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

verge

• n. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
• n. An edge or border.
• n. (obsolete) The phallus.
• n. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
• n. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
• n. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
• n. (architecture) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
• n. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
• v. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.