threshold

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: doors & parts of doors
architrave
back door
bell push
bi-fold
cat flap
draught excluder
emergency exit
entryway
fire door
five-bar gate
knob
knocker
letterbox
purging
revolving door
safety gate
screen door
shoji
up-and-over
weatherboarding

Examples from literature

Imagine standing in the doorway of an aircraft flying at 3,000 meters – falling into the clouds, diving down through the air at over 193 kilometers per hour! 
A servant appeared in the doorway. 
Her grandmother stood in the doorway watching for her. 
In front of her was a little stair running downwards, and ending in a doorway. 
My wife met me at the doorway. 
There were six doorways in front, none on the ends or in the rear walls. 

doorway | American Dictionary

doorway
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɔrˌweɪ, ˈdoʊr-/
the space for a door through which you go into and out of a room or building

Examples of doorway

doorway
A circulation model is a graph representing paths between doorways.
He also undertakes an innovative survey of 30,000 doorways in the nine historic districts.
That simple facade and doorway transformed the way in which audiences perceived the theatre.
The interaction occurs in a wait station, a small room with doorways on three sides that connects the kitchen, bar, and serving area.
Arriving during the night, he fell asleep in the doorway of a police station.
Depicted inside the doorway of this building is a goggle-eyed personage.
In most cases a gap indicates a doorway, but the collapse of structures has often obliterated this evidence.
Cooking was done outside the hut either in front of, or beside the doorway.
Where doorway occurrences in a certain street are high, the integration of buildings with the street is also high.
Passing through the doorway, concrete walls direct you back on yourself and into the main chapel space.
The intensity of light incident on a test surface placed along the line of sight through the doorway varied with depth.
At the very next moment, their dog appears in the doorway of the store carrying the girl's purse in his mouth.
It becomes a doorway to the imagination, linking the inner and outer worlds.
There would be a new and very real doorway toward the general collapse of the world.
This theme has gradually tween the two different types of doorways found its way into archaeological research for the single streets is examined.
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