Via vs Thus - What's the difference?
via | thus |
A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
(label) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
By way of; passing through.
By (means of); using (a medium).
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As per (a mathematical equation).
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(lb) In this way or manner.
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(lb) As a result.
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As a preposition via
is (british spelling).As an adverb thus is
(lb) in this way or manner.As a noun thus is
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English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
{{der3, via affirmativa , Via Crucis , Via Dolorosa , Via Egnatia , Via Lactea , via media , via negativa}}Etymology 2
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*Preposition
(English prepositions)citation
Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) thus, thous, thos, from (etyl) .Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus , by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}