Through vs For - What's the difference?
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From one side of an opening to the other.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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, title= Surrounded by (while moving).
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, title= By means of.
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, title= (lb) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
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Passing from one side of an object to the other.
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Finished; complete.
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Valueless; without a future.
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No longer interested.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
*1977 , Iggy Pop,
*:I'm worth a million in prizes / Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk / No more beating my brains / No more beating my brains / With the liquor and drugs / With the liquor and drugs
Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
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From one side to the other by way of the interior.
From one end to the other.
To the end.
Completely.
Out into the open.
Because.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) , Chapter 23
Towards.
Directed at, intended to belong to.
Supporting (opposite of against ).
Because of.
* Shakespeare
Over a period of time.
* Garth
Throughout an extent of space.
* Shakespeare
On behalf of.
Instead of, or in place of.
* Bible, Exodus xxi. 23, 24
In order to obtain or acquire.
* Denham
In the direction of:
* Francis Bacon
By the standards of, usually with the implication of those standards being lower than one might otherwise expect.
Despite, in spite of.
* 1892 August 6, , "The Unbidden Guest", in All the Year Round ,
* 1968 , J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (page 240)
(chiefly, US) Out of;
(cricket) (used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen)
Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
* Cowley
* John Locke
* Dryden
* Philips
See the entry for the phrasal verb.
(obsolete) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As nouns the difference between through and for
is that through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb while for is oven.As a preposition through
is from one side of an opening to the other.As an adjective through
is passing from one side of an object to the other.As an adverb through
is from one side to the other by way of the interior.through
English
Alternative forms
* thorow (obsolete) * thruEtymology 1
From (etyl) *. See also thorough.Preposition
(English prepositions)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=But the home side were ahead in the eighth minute through 18-year-old Oxlade-Chamberlain.}}
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
Derived terms
(terms derived using the preposition "through") * clear through * feedthrough * get through * go through * look through * right through * through and through * through with * throughput * throughwayAdjective
(-)Adverb
(-)- The arrow went straight through .
- Others slept; he worked straight through .
- She read the letter through .
- He said he would see it through .
- Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through .
- The American army broke through at St. Lo.
References
* Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8Etymology 2
From (etyl)for
English
(wikipedia for)Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
Preposition
(English prepositions)- The astronauts headed for the moon.
- I have something for you.
- All those for the motion raise your hands.
- He wouldn't apologize; and just for that, she refused to help him.
- (UK usage) He looks better for having lost weight.
- She was the worse for drink.
- with fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath
- They fought for days over a silly pencil.
- To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day.
- For many miles about / There's scarce a bush.
- I will stand in for him.
- And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for' life, eye '''for''' eye, tooth '''for''' tooth, hand '''for''' hand, foot ' for foot.
- I am aiming for completion by the end of business Thursday.
- He's going for his doctorate.
- Do you want to go for coffee?
- People all over Greece looked to Delphi for answers.
- Can you go to the store for some eggs?
- I'm saving up for a car.
- Don't wait for an answer.
- What did he ask you for ?
- He writes not for' money, nor ' for praise.
- Run for the hills!
- He was headed for the door when he remembered.
- We sailed from Peru for China and Japan.
- Fair for its day.
- She's spry for an old lady.
][http://books.google.com/books?id=XNwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&dq=%22but+for%22 page 133,
- Mr. Joseph Blenkinshaw was perhaps not worth quite so much as was reported; but for all that he was a very wealthy man
- For all his faults, there had been something lofty and great about him - as a judge, as a patron of education, as a builder, as an international figure.
- For that to happen now is incredibly unlikely.'' (=''It is incredibly unlikely that that will happen now. )
- All I want is for you to be happy.'' (=''All I want is that you be happy. )
- We take a falling meteor for a star.
- If a man can be fully assured of anything for' a truth, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace ' for true?
- Most of our ingenious young men take up some cry'd-up English poet for their model.
- But let her go for an ungrateful woman.
- We'll have a bib, for spoiling of thy doublet.
