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Definition: Meaning of, through in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / θruː /

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  1. door/passage etc into one side or end of an entrance, passage, hole etc and out of the other side or end
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  2. cutting/breaking cutting or breaking something, or making a hole from one side of it to the other
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  3. across an area from one side of an area to the other or between a group of things
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  4. see through something if you see something through glass, a window etc, you are on one side of the glass etc and it is on the other
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  5. past a place past a place where you are supposed to stop
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  6. time during and to the end of a period of time
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  7. process/experience from the beginning to the end of a process or experience
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  8. competitions past one stage in a competition to the next stage
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  9. because of something because of something
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  10. by means of something/somebody by means of a particular method, service, person etc
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  11. parliament/congress if a proposal passes through a parliament, it is agreed and accepted as a law
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  12. until May through June/Wednesday through Friday etc American English from May until June, from Wednesday until Friday etc
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  13. halfway through (something) in the middle of an event or period of time
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  14. telephone British English connected to someone by telephone
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  15. completely wet through/cooked through etc informal completely wet, cooked etc
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  16. through and through if someone is a particular type of person through and through, they are completely that type of person
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  17. all the way through to London/Paris etc as far as London, Paris etc
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  18. use quickly get/go/run through something to use a lot of something quickly
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  1. be through (with somebody/something) informal to have finished doing something or using something
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  2. be through (with somebody/something) informal to no longer be having a relationship with someone
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  3. through train a train by which you can reach a place, without having to use other trains
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  4. through road a road that joins cities, towns, or villages together
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through used in phrases

  • K through 12
    1. in the US, the period of schooling from kindergarten through to grade 12 - the final year of high school
  • Through the Looking-Glass
    1. (1872) a book for children by Lewis CARROLL in which the main character, Alice, a little girl, visits a strange world by stepping through a mirror. Many of the people she meets are CHESS pieces or characters from NURSERY RHYME s (= old songs or poems for young children) such as HUMPTY DUMPTY .
  • bull through (verb)
    1. push or force
  • click-through (noun)
    1. an advertisement on the Internet that you can click on for more information, and which allows the advertiser to know how many people are interested enough in their advertisement to do this
  • drag through the mud (verb)
    1. speak unfavourably about
  • drive-through (noun)
    1. a restaurant, bank etc where you can be served without getting out of your car
  • follow-through (noun)
    1. the continued movement of your arm after you have hit the ball in tennis, golf etc [↪  follow through]
    2. the things that someone does in order to complete a plan [↪  follow through]
  • go through the motions (verb)
    1. pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it
  • luck through (verb)
    1. act by relying on one's luck
  • move through (verb)
    1. make a passage or journey from one place to another
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