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thou | thru |

As a pronoun thou

is you singular informal, nominative case

As a verb thou

is to address (a person) using the pronoun {{term|thou|lang=en}}, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.

As a noun thou

is a unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.

As a preposition thru is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

thou

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) thou, thow, thu, ).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l)

Pronoun

(wikipedia thou)
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    • Usage notes
    * , as in, for example, “Lovest thou me?” Irregular forms include: (art) (of be), (hast) (of have), shalt (of shall), wost (of (wit)), wilt (of (will)), and (m) (of (m)).
    Derived terms
    * th'art * thou'lt * thou'rt * thou'st
    See also
    (English personal pronouns)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 443:
    • "One service more, Sahib , since thou hast come so opportunely," said Lalun. "Wilt thou" – it is very nice to be thou-ed by Lalun – "take this old man across the City [...] to the Kumharsen Gate?"
    I thou thee, thou traitor! (Edward Coke to Walter Raleigh)
    Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! I am come of good kin, I tell thee!'' (The morality play ''Hickscorner , ca. 1530)
    If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss''[...] (''Twelfth Night'' 3.2, Sir Toby Belch to Sir Andrew, egging him on to pick a fight with another, where one would expect one knight courteously to say to another, "If ''you thou him...").
    Don't thou''' them as '''thous thee! (Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children)
  • To use the word thou.

    • Antonyms

    *

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from thousandth.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.
    • Synonyms
    * mil (US)

    Etymology 3

    Shortened from thousand.

    Noun

    (thou)
  • (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.

    • Statistics

    * English heteronyms English personal pronouns English terms with multiple etymologies

    thru

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1996 , month=December , first=Joe , last=Hastreiter , author= , coauthors= , title=Sludge Management Savings Found Among Reeds , volume=143 , issue=12 , page=23 , magazine=Water Engineering & Management , publisher=Scranton Gillette Communications , issn= , url= , passage=We wanted an overall treatment system that gave us optimum reliability and required a minimum of labor to operate - from primary clarifier thru sludge handling, …}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=Fall , year=2003 , month= , first=Hasson , last=Kevin J. , author= , coauthors= , title=Religious Liberty and Human Dignity: A Tale of Two Declarations , volume=27 , issue=1 , page=81-92 , magazine=Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy , publisher=Harvard , issn= , url= , passage=… to respect human rights, then failing to explicitly define thru common understanding.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=Winter , year=2004 , month=December 22, , first= , last= , author= , coauthors=Fredericks, Marcel / Odiet, Jeff A. / Miller, Steven I. / Fredericks, Janet , title=Toward an Understanding of "Genetic Sociology" and Its Relationships to Medical Sociology and Medical Genetics in the Educational Enterprise. , volume=125 , issue=2 , page=222-235 , magazine=Education , publisher=Project Innovation, Inc. , issn=0013-1172 , url= , passage=As the technology improves, there is a possibility to reprogram adult stem cells for therapeutic cloning without "passing it thru " the preimplantation embryo, thus negating current ethical challenges to such research.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=Winter , year=2006 , month=December, , first=Roxanne , last=Mills , author= , coauthors= , title=Leadership in Higher Education and the Second Half of Life , volume=127 , issue=2 , page=294-302 , magazine=Education , publisher=Project Innovation, Inc. , issn=0013-1172 , url= , passage=Going thru a great crisis of self-analysis, especially in relation to job, school, work, students. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date=Winter , year=2010 , month=January, , first=David , last=Martinez , author= , coauthors= , title=Pulling Down the Clouds: The O'odham Intellectual Tradition during the "Time of Famine" , volume=34 , issue=1 , page=1-32 , magazine=American Indian Quarterly , publisher=University of Nebraska Press , issn=0095-182X , url= , passage=Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona as received by J. William Lloyd from Comalk-Hawk-Kih (Thin Buckskin) thru the interpretation of Edward Hubert Wood. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Fancine N. D'Aprile , title=From Hell on Earth to the Foot of the Cross , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Trafford Publishing , isbn=9781426966132 , page=157 , passage=If you see thru' my eyes, you'd wish you weren't here, because all you will feel sadness and fear. It loneliness and sorrow if you see '''thru''' my eyes sit and talk to before you say goodbye. See ' thru my eyes and a tear you will see, I wish you could cry and cry with me. }}
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  • (UK, rare, regional, or, dialectal)

    • Usage notes

    * Thru'' is mostly used where the preposition ''through'' could be used (e.g. ''Monday thru''' Friday''); it is less common as an adjective or adverb (''I'm '''thru with the vacuuming ). It is less used in formal situations, except in cases where brevity is wanted such as roadway signs or date ranges. * This spelling is not used in standard British English, though it can be found as an abbreviation – similar to thro' – and is recently becoming noticeable due to use by American-based companies. It may also be used as an eye dialect spelling in some regions. ** Through'' is rarely used in any spelling to indicate ranges in British English; '' are used instead. * Thru'' is often used, in both American and British English, in professional drafting (''5/8? thru hole ) to save space and simplify annotation on a drawing for fabrication or construction.

    Related terms

    * breakthru * click-thru * drive-thru * see-thru * thru-hike * thruout * thruway

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