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THROUGH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
Example:
through traffic
Classified under:
Similar:
direct (direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having finished or arrived at completion
Example:
almost through with his studies
Synonyms:
done; through; through with
Classified under:
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Throughout the entire extent
Example:
boards rotten through and through
Synonyms:
through; through and through
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Over the whole distance
Example:
this bus goes through to New York
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Sense 3
Meaning:
In diameter
Example:
this cylinder measures 15 inches through
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Adverbs
Sense 4
Meaning:
From beginning to end
Example:
read this book through
Classified under:
Adverbs
Sense 5
Meaning:
To completion
Example:
think this through very carefully!
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
All through the evening they kept thundering away.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As to that, said he, I must rub through the world as well as I can.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
After a year or two, it came to pass that the king’s son rode through the forest and passed by the tower.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
(Mental Health, NIH)
And I am sure, my name was Norval, every evening of my life through one Christmas holidays.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It seemed as though their bones would burst through their skins.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Mr. Hilton Cubitt had been shot through the heart.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And it was he that first gripped another cub by the ear and pulled and tugged and growled through jaws tight-clenched.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The breakfast had to be got through somehow.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
