Through vs Trench - 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.
A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
(informal) A trench coat.
* 1999 , April 24, Xiphias Gladius , "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected , Usenet:
* 2007 , (Nina Garcia), The Little Black Book of Style'', HarperCollins, as excerpted in , October, page 138:
(usually, followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
* 1640 , (Ben Jonson), Underwoods , page 68:
* I. Taylor
* 1949 , (Charles Austin Beard), American Government and Politics , page 16:
* 2005 , Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War , page 261:
(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
* Shakespeare
(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
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To cut furrows or ditches in.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
As nouns the difference between through and trench
is that through is a large slab of stone laid on a tomb while trench is a long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.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.As a verb trench is
(usually|followed by upon) to invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.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)trench
English
(wikipedia trench)Noun
(es)- I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench' and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black ' trench .
- A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.
Derived terms
* * entrench * in the trenches * trench boot * trench coat * trench knife * trench mortar * trench mouth * trench warfareVerb
(es)- Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.
- Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?
- He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.
- [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.
- No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
- (Alexander Pope)
- (Francis Bacon)
- The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.
- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat / Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
- to trench land for the purpose of draining it
- to trench a garden for certain crops