through
Part of speech: prep
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: 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”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian döör (“through”), Saterland Frisian truch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Luxembourgish duerch (“through”), West Flemish deur (“through”), Yiddish דורך (durkh, “through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.
Inflected forms:
form: thru
pos: prep
tags: alternative
US
informal
form: thro'
pos: prep
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
form: thorough
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: thoo
pos: prep
tags: alternative
dialectal
pronunciation-spelling
form: thorow
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: throughe
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thrue
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thurrow
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
informal
form: thro'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
form: thorough
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: thoo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
pronunciation-spelling
form: thorow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: throughe
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thrue
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thurrow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thru
pos: adv
tags: alternative
US
informal
form: thro'
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
form: thorough
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: thoo
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
pronunciation-spelling
form: thorow
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: throughe
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thrue
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thurrow
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: I drove through Lausanne on my way from Geneva to Zurich.
The bullet went right through his leg.
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.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: The virus broke out in the capital city and is now spreading quickly through the country.
I'm working through this box set of 'Downton Abbey'.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: Go straight ahead and through that door.
Look through the window.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: I hope to start in the autumn, but I've got to get through the interview first.
The finance bill did not get through Congress.
We're through the worst part.
The going will be easier once we're through the bog.
You can't see through a brick wall!
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.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: Have you got through all those chocolates already?!
The company went through its £100m startup investment in six months.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: We're halfway through the year.
gloss: From one side or end of (something) to the other.
pos: prep
examples: He worked through the night.
I never want to sit through another meeting like that again.
gloss: Via or by way of.
pos: prep
examples: The hot water enters through this pipe.
gloss: Via or by way of.
pos: prep
examples: I met her through a friend of mine.
This matter was dealt with through our London office.
I received this anonymous letter through the post.
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%.
gloss: Throughout or across the extent of.
pos: prep
examples: There are errors all through this report.
Work the eggs and sugar through the mixture.
gloss: Amidst or surrounded by (while moving).
pos: prep
examples: We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.
The arrow flew through the air.
I spent all day wading through paperwork.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values; to... inclusive; until the end of.
pos: prep
tags: Canada
US
examples: from 1945 through 1991;  the numbers 1 through 9;  your membership is active through March 15, 2013
The plural is "oyesses", but "oyes" vied with "oyez" through about the first half of the nineteenth century.
It includes patent requests in machine learning through 2016, the last year for which details are available.
gloss: By means of.
pos: prep
examples: This team believes in winning through intimidation.
He's got to where he is today through sheer hard work and determination.
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.
gloss: In consequence of; as a result of.
pos: prep
examples: The project failed through lack of investment.
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.
gloss: Passing from one side of something to the other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
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.
gloss: Finished; complete.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: They were through with laying the subroof by noon.
Early in the Talmudic period the service was divided between two officers. One was invited to recite the Shema including the benedictions connected with it […] After he was through, another man was invited to stand up before the pulpit facing the direction of Jerusalem to recite the prayer proper, i.e., the Amida.
gloss: Along the course of a task etc.; used in expressions of progress towards the end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It's a big job but we're halfway through.
gloss: Without a future; done for.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services.
You chumps are tougher than you look. But I'm not through yet! Everyone! GET 'EM!!!
gloss: No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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”.
We’re through being cool.
We’re through being cool.
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits.
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
gloss: Proceeding from origin to destination without the need to change transport vehicle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The through flight through Memphis was the fastest.
When is the next through train to London?
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.
gloss: In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With the Swifts calling for offside the striker was through and only a great save from McIlravey prevented the opener.
gloss: (usually followed by "to") Able to progress (to the next stage or a higher level) following success in an exam, sports match, etc.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
not-comparable
rare
examples: Manchester United are through to the FA Cup Final for the thirteenth time.
gloss: From one side of something to the other.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The arrow went straight through.
I didn't like the look of the place, so I drove through without stopping.
gloss: From one side of something to the other.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I opened the window and climbed through.
gloss: From one side of something to the other.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The road is blocked by an overturned truck, and cars can't get through.
The American army broke through at Saint-Lô.
gloss: So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bill will be tabled tomorrow, but I doubt that it will be voted through.
She progressed through to the final round of the competition.
gloss: From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Others went to bed for the night; he worked straight through.
She read the letter through.
The baby cried the whole night through.
He said he would see it through.
gloss: Throughout something; all the way across or into.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
gloss: So as to connect or reach.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I've been ringing my bank all day, and finally I've got through.
Can you put me through to the manager?
Derived words: all-through school
bleed-through
blow a hole through
blow through
breakthrough
break through
bring through
burn through
button through
camel through the eye of a needle
cheek it through
clear through
click-through
clickthrough
click-through rate
come through
coming through
cook through
cut-through
drag through the dirt
drag through the mud
drill through
drive a coach and horses through
drive a coach and six through
drive a stake through its heart
drive a truck through something
drive-through
drive-through penalty
fall-through
fall through the cracks
fart through silk
feed-through
feed through
feedthrough
flip through
flowthrough
fly-through
flythrough
follow-through
get it through one's skull
get through
get through one's head
get through one's thick skull
go through
go through fire and water
go through hell
go through hoops
go through the attitudes
go through the gears
go through the mill
go through the motions
go through the trouble
gut through
hear-through
hear through the grapevine
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
jump through hoops
K through 12
leap through hoops
let-through
let through
lie through one's teeth
like a hot knife through butter
like a knife through butter
like grease through a goose
like shit through a goose
lock through
long march through the institutions
look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
look through
look through rose-colored glasses
look through rose-tinted glasses
luck through
move through the gears
muddle through
no through road
over the river and through the woods
passer-through
pass through
pass-through
pass through the hands
pass through the pikes
paythrough
pay through the nose
peace through strength
play-through
playthrough
print-through
pull-through
push-through
put one through one's paces
put someone through their paces
put through
put through hoops
put through its paces
put through the hoops
put through the mangle
put through the mill
put through the wringer
puzzle through
reach-through
read-through
rise through the ranks
rot through
run barefoot through
run-through
run through the garden
rust through
security-through-obscurity
security through obscurity
the forest through the trees
the trees through the forest
see-through
sell-through
shoot through like a Bondi tram
shot through with
show-through
ski-through
slip through someone's fingers
slip through the cracks
slip through the net
stagger-through
step-through
straight-through
talk through one's ass
talk through one's hat
talk through one's nose
therethrough
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
through-and-through
through and through
throughbore
throughcare
through-composed
throughfall
throughflow
throughgang
through-gird
through-hole technology
throughlane
throughly
throughness
through oneself
throughout
throughput
through-shine
through-stitch
throughstone
through the ceiling
through the floor
through the gate
through the hawsehole
through the looking-glass
through the looking glass
through the mill
through the roof
through the sunroof
through the wazoo
through the wrong end of the telescope
through thick and thin
through with
thumb through
tiptoe through a minefield
walkthrough
walk-through
walk through
wave through
wherethrough
writethrough
floor-through
through ball
through bridge
through-draft
through draft
through-draught
through draught
through-gut
throughline
through line
through station
through stone
through-ticket
through traffic
through train
through valley
through variable
throughway
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: but see пре-
roman: pre-
lang: Bulgarian
word: през
roman: prez
lang: Dutch
word: doorheen
lang: Italian
word: attraverso
lang: Portuguese
word: através
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: troimhe