(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.