Word: Through
How to pronounce: θruː
Preposition
Definitions:
1. Moving in one side and out of the other side of (an opening, channel, or location)
Example sentences: "She walked through the doorway into the living room"
2. Continuing in time toward completion of (a process or period)
Example sentences: "He showed up halfway through the second act"
3. So as to inspect all or part of (a collection, inventory, or publication)
Example sentences: "I flipped though the pages"
4. By means of (a process or intermediate stage)
Example sentences: "Dioxins get into mothers' milk through contaminated food"
5. Up to and including (a particular point in an ordered sequence)
Example sentences: "They will be in town from March 24 through May 7"
Adverb
Definitions:
1. Expressing movement into one side and out of the other side of an opening, channel, or location.
Example sentences: "As soon as we opened the gate they came streaming through"
2. So as to continue in time toward the completion of a process, period, etc.
Example sentences: "She's just started a tour that will keep her busy right through to June"
3. So as to inspect all or part of a publication or document.
4. So as to be connected by telephone.
Example sentences: "He put a call through to the senator"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (of a means of public transportation or a ticket) continuing or valid to the final destination.
Example sentences: "A through train from Boston"
2. (of a room) running the whole length of a building.
3. Having no prospect of any future relationship, dealings, or success.
Synonyms:
by
via
thru
at the expense
thanks to
due to
across
in
over
down
per
passage
midst
amid
ended
completed
done
complete
Derivations:
throughly
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Through in Other Languages...
Spanish: Mediante
German: Durch
French: Travers
Italian: Attraverso
Turkish: Arasında
