Schwelle — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
Schwelle is used for these senses in English:
- liminal (anthropology, literary theory) Pertaining to or in a state that is in-between or transitional between two (or more) other states, while belonging to neither; pertaining to or in a state such as to be neither definitively in a particular other state or category nor definitively outside it.
- railroad tie (rail transport, US) A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
- sill (construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
sill — full definition
- noun The horizontal ledge at the base of a window or door frame.
- noun (geology) A flat sheet of igneous rock that has forced its way between existing layers of rock underground.
threshold — full definition
- noun The strip or slab at the bottom of a doorway that you step over to enter.
- noun The point at which something begins, or the level at which an effect kicks in.
- noun The income level at which you start paying a particular rate of tax.