A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.

(intransitive) To come through pain and trouble through perseverance. / (transitive) To assist someone through difficulties, injury, pain, etc.

(idiomatic) To do something in a mechanical, unreflective manner, especially as a matter of routine and without commitment or enthusiasm; to perform a task perfunctorily.

(now rare, archaic) Thoroughly, completely.

(computer security) Relying on a potential attacker's lack of knowledge will maintain security.

Obsolete spelling of through

Alternative spelling of through-composed

(music) Of a song, composed so that each stanza may have different music, rather than the same being repeated for all of them.

plural of throughline

(narratology) In full through line of action: a theme that runs through the plot of a book, film, or other narrative work, or a series of such related works.