noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s pain threshold (= their ability to bear pain )
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Everyone has a different pain threshold.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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I am going to offer you certain words: threshold , attic, cellar, kitchen, bedroom, corridor.
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If the total strength of the input signals exceeds a certain threshold , the unit sends a signal on to other units.
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Above a certain threshold , these hot spots suddenly transformed into the all-or-none response that appeared as expanding circular or spiral waves.
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Mall owners are entitled to collect between 5 percent and 10 percent of their tenants' sales beyond a certain threshold .
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Some algorithms forward prune any paths which fall below a certain threshold .
high
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Anyone who said they liked observations must have a pretty high threshold of boredom.
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He also had a high threshold of discomfort.
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It also calls for a higher price threshold for company car tax.
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Previous results have shown a higher threshold of rectal sensation in men than in women.
low
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If the target word in the position had a recognition score lower than the threshold then it was omitted.
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I have a very low threshold for pain.
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Their data can not exclude a 20% lower glucose threshold for adrenaline or a 24% lower threshold for noradrenaline with human insulin.
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Indications for home monitoring of blood glucose in these patients are a raised glycosylated haemoglobin or a low renal threshold .
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The point, though, is on a rather low threshold .
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This lower threshold applies only to property, not personal injury.
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Major award schools, on the other hand, started from a conspicuously lower threshold of library provision and use.
minimum
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We now have much less than our minimum protection threshold .
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He said the government will consider introducing a minimum threshold of 20 percent.
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Here was a new minimum threshold for promotion-it might make you more mature.
■ NOUN
boredom
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My boredom threshold is next to nil.
duty
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Increasing the stamp duty threshold on house sales from £30,000 to £60,000.
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However, his most welcome move was the raising of the Stamp Duty threshold from £30,000 to £60,000.
level
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There is a threshold level of income which is completely free of income tax.
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The end of a nerve fiber is stimulated to or above its sensitivity threshold level .
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Next, it must calculate a total for the combined input signals and compare that total to some threshold level .
pain
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Even though it was now well after midnight, the noise level was approaching the pain threshold .
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That depends on your pain threshold .
quality
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Notably, the quality threshold is tied to the employer's existing exploitation of the patented invention.
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How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost?
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It's reassuring to learn that the Government is apparently sympathetic to concerns about the quality threshold .
tax
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The income tax threshold for 2000-01 is £4,385.
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Those with earnings just above the tax threshold bore the heaviest burden of the flat rate tax as a proportion of income.
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Income tax thresholds were raised from G$10,000 to G$48,000 with lower tax rates planned to offset the withdrawal of personal allowances.
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It could be paid for by a freeze on upper tax thresholds and personal allowances which would save the Treasury over £850m.
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For a start, it slips under the 2 litre tax threshold .
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As all but a few privileged children have an income below the tax threshold , this interest will be tax-free.
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As this is over the inheritance tax threshold , it would bring a tax bill of £4,800.
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Anyone with income below the income tax threshold of £4,385 is entitled to interest on savings tax-free.
value
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If the sum of the inputs is greater than the threshold value , the processing element generates a signal.
■ VERB
cross
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In one sense I was dreading crossing a new threshold with my parents, who would have so many adjustments to make.
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Just six of those parties managed to cross the 5 percent threshold necessary for official status in the Duma.
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Groceries in hand, I crossed the threshold and moved into the entering phase of breaking and entering.
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When people do cross the threshold of the church, do we make it easy for them to take that step?
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There must have been a time billions of years ago when life crossed the threshold of irreversibility.
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As soon as you got in, and your foot crossed the threshold , you called out your number.
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If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped.
exceed
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When the measurements exceed pre-programmed thresholds , alerts will be sent to a base station computer.
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If the total strength of the input signals exceeds a certain threshold , the unit sends a signal on to other units.
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Any system in which more than 10 percent of monitored, high-risk residences exceeded that threshold was cited.
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If a software unit exceeds an error threshold , throw it out, and have a different developer do the recoding.
lower
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Each time you let it all hang out, you lower your threshold for doing it again.
pass
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How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost?
raise
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This served to raise the rescue threshold by warning of the possible damage to the child of removal from the family.
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Rather than cutting top rates of tax, it would be better to raise even further the thresholds for poorer taxpayers.
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Mr Major raised the threshold to £200,000.
reach
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It is necessary to assume that, once a logogen has reached threshold , its activation level must decay away rapidly.
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As Stillman reached the threshold of the station, he put his bag down once again and paused.
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No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 percent threshold required to win representation.
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The group expects to reach that threshold after circulating petitions at Earth Day events this weekend.
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On reaching the threshold he closed the throttle and flared.
set
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The new decision also sets an almost negligible threshold of collaboration.
stand
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We could, therefore, stand on the threshold of a new age of crisis.
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One stands on the threshold of miracles that one can not create voluntarily....
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As soon as the doors are opened, the adventurers find themselves standing at the threshold of room 49.
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He stands at the very threshold of the age of electrical power-the Slavic genius who made it possible.
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Beginning to wish he had never come, Mungo stood on the threshold of the last door.
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Absalom Greer pushed open a door and the rector stood on the threshold in happy amazement.
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This morning we stand on the threshold of the season of Lent.
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Priscilla came to stand on the threshold of the room, her eyes downcast, her hands straight at her sides.
step
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Claudia, standing by the window, looking down at the street, knew the moment he stepped over the threshold .
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A man was just stepping across the threshold of the temple enclosure.
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Tallis stepped across the threshold and screamed as the true cold struck her.
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Miles stepped across the threshold and into a different world.
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Lorimer poked his head inside and then boldly opened the windows further and stepped over the threshold .
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If she opened it and stepped over the threshold - No; she feared to discover what lay beyond.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If the temperature falls below a particular threshold , a warning light comes on.
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Under the proposal, those whose earnings were less than a $36,000 threshold would not have to pay taxes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Stillman reached the threshold of the station, he put his bag down once again and paused.
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He thought he was on the threshold of some awful enlightenment, an initiation of unimaginable pain.
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I felt myself at the threshold of another breakthrough, another change.
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If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped.
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It's your threshold to the world of e-commerce.
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It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds.
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The group expects to reach that threshold after circulating petitions at Earth Day events this weekend.