Word definition: through

Etimology


From Middle English thrugh, thruch, thruh, metathetic variants of thurgh, thurh, from Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw (“through”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷe, suffixed zero-grade from *terh₂- (“to pass through”) + *-kʷe (“and”). Cognate with Scots throch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), German durch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.

preposition


through

From one side of an opening to the other.

Entering, then later leaving.

Surrounded by (while moving).

By means of.

In consequence of; as a result of.

During a period of time; throughout

(Canada, US) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.

Examples


I went through the window.

A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

I drove through the town at top speed without looking left or right.

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

Inf America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

This team believes in winning through intimidation.

But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

Our minds and hearts are corrupted with the Adamic virus at birth, and through a lifetime of sin and tragedy, our hearts and thoughts get more evil and more corrupted as we experience life's tragedies.

He worked through the night.

from 1945 through 1991;  the numbers 1 through 9;  your membership is active through March 15, 2013

It includes patent requests in machine learning through 2016, the last year for which details are available.

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adjective


through (not comparable)

Passing from one side of something to the other.

Finished; complete.

Without a future; done for.

No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.

Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.

(soccer) In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.

Examples


Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads.

It is possible to use a through bolt so that the bolt will be loaded axially, but usually axial loads are only components of the total load on the bolt.

They were through with laying the subroof by noon.

After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services.

She was through with him.

“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs

The through flight through Memphis was the fastest.

Also the 10.45 a.m. from Paddington by the same route is called "Through Train via Severn Tunnel," but in later years, when made up of corridor stock, it is called "Through Corridor Express via Severn Tunnel." The frequent use of "through" on the South Wales section of G.W.R. began when the Severn Tunnel route was used for through trains between Paddington and South Wales in the summer of 1887 in order to draw continual attention to the improved facilities.

With the Swifts calling for offside the striker was through and only a great save from McIlravey prevented the opener.

adverb


through (not comparable)

From one side to the other by way of the interior.

From one end to the other.

Throughout something; all the way across or into.

To the end.

Out into the open.

Examples


The arrow went straight through.

Others slept; he worked straight through.

She read the letter through.

Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.

He said he would see it through.

The American army broke through at Saint-Lô.

noun


through (plural throughs)

A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.

Etimology


From Middle English thrugh, þrouȝ, throgh, from Old English þrūh (“trough, conduit, pipe; box, chest; coffin, tomb”), from Proto-Germanic *þrūhs (“excavated trunk, trough”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₃u- (“to rub, turn, drill, bore”).

noun


through (plural throughs)

(obsolete) A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb.

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