thru vs through
Definitions
adverb
- throughout the entire extent
- in diameter
- to completion
- from beginning to end
- over the whole distance
adjective
- having finished or arrived at completion
- (of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
Examples
He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
