What's the difference between through and thru?

Through


Definition:

  • (prep.) From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
  • (prep.) Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue.
  • (prep.) By means of; by the agency of.
  • (prep.) Over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account.
  • (prep.) Among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water; the light glimmers through a thicket.
  • (prep.) From the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year.
  • (adv.) From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.
  • (adv.) From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through.
  • (adv.) To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through.
  • (a.) Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

Example Sentences:

Thru


Definition:

  • (prep., adv. & a.) Through.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is thought that the mechanisms of resorption are: co-mingling with CSF and redistribution in the more acute variety and in instances of subdural hydromas; and thru the healing and reparative process in the chronic type.
  • (2) 1.16pm GMT NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) Small band of moderate to even briefly hvy #snow dropping south thru W & central Suffolk.
  • (3) The coaA gene was transcribed in the opposite direction to the flanking genes birA and thrU and produced a single 1.1-kb transcript.
  • (4) Whether he’s belting Baby along with Justin Bieber or making jazz hands in the drive-thru with Jennifer Hudson, Corden is having more fun than anyone in late night.
  • (5) Keen viewers – and many Twitterers – also caught onto the show’s new product placement in a few later, lesser sketches – a bizarre stream of characters pulling through a Burger King drive-thru, then a robot sketch that prominently featured the Hondo logo.
  • (6) 1) Out of 112 death cases including 80 male and 32 female cases, 13 cases--younger than 15 years of age, 4 cases--16 thru 19, 12 cases--20 thru 29, 23 cases--30 thru 39, 22 cases--40 thru 49, 19 cases--50 thru 59, 8 cases--60 thru 69, and 13 cases--older than 70 years of age were specified respectively.
  • (7) No significant differences were found between groups in puretone thresholds for frequencies measured at octave intervals from 250 thru 8000 Hz.
  • (8) We conclude that a correlation between changes of the UAS-dependent activation of the thrU (tufB) operon and changes of the cellular FIS concentration under a variety of experimental conditions exists.
  • (9) The thrU(tufB) operon of Escherichia coli is endowed with a cis-acting region upstream of the promoter, designated UAS for Upstream Activator Sequence.
  • (10) And I once thought I saw him driving a pickup through a Sonic drive-thru and got surprisingly excited.
  • (11) Niwa Weather (@NiwaWeather) The region most impacted by #eqnz will have rough weather late today thru Tues.
  • (12) The aeration of sewage through shooting flow, biological oxidation combined with sediment action by passing thru reclining tubes is an effective way for the secondary treatment of hospital sewage.
  • (13) Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) Global tech companies making enormous profits most places, funnelling $$ thru tax havens.
  • (14) With intraoperative fluoroscopy, the distal intra-abdominal esophageal segment was manipulated thru the esophageal hiatus.
  • (15) From March 1, 1979 thru September 30, 1984 we performed 56 cardiac transplants (Tx).
  • (16) This protein, which stimulates the inversion of various viral DNA segments, binds specifically to a cis-acting sequence (designated UAS) upstream of the promoter of thrU (tufB) and the P1 promoter of the rrnB operon.
  • (17) These data demonstrate that in this model, glomerular injury is dependent on complement components generated up thru C3 but not C5 or latter components.
  • (18) Use of an everting thru-lumen balloon catheter allowed successful percutaneous transluminal cholangioplasty in a patient with sclerosing cholangitis when conventional methods had failed.
  • (19) Local communities must realise the benefits thru tourism, hunting, cropping and death thru old age.
  • (20) We demonstrate that the E.coli protein FIS (Factor for Inversion Stimulation) also binds to the UAS of the thrU(tufB) operon forming three protein-DNA complexes.

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