From one side or end of (something) to the other.
I drove through Lausanne on my way from Geneva to Zurich.
Via or by way of.
The hot water enters through this pipe.
Throughout or across the extent of.
There are errors all through this report.
Passing from one side of something to the other.
Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads.
Finished; complete.
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.
From one side of something to the other.
The arrow went straight through.
So as to pass a stage in a process and proceed to the next stage or level.
The bill will be tabled tomorrow, but I doubt that it will be voted through.
A coffin, sarcophagus or tomb of stone; a large slab of stone laid on a tomb, or in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
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 ...
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Along the course of a task etc.; used in expressions of progress towards the end.
It's a big job but we're halfway through.
From beginning to end, or from the present position to the end.
Others went to bed for the night; he worked straight through.