thorough /thurˈə, also (N American) thurˈō/    adjective- Passing or carried through, or to the end
 - Complete
 - Entire
 - Out-and-out
 - (of a person) assiduous and scrupulous in completing work and attending to every detail
 - (of a task, etc) done with great care and attention to detail
       preposition (obsolete)Through     noun- That which goes through, a passage
 - (also with cap) the blind and obstinately tyrannical policy of Strafford and Laud in administering civil and ecclesiastical affairs without regard to opposite convictions (historical)
     ORIGIN: The longer form of through    thorˈoughly  adverb  thorˈoughness  noun    thorough bass  noun (music) -  (esp in baroque music) a bass part underlying a piece, usu with figures to indicate the chords, and usu played on a keyboard instrument
 - (loosely) harmony
 - A deep bass (non-standard)
   thorˈoughbrace  noun (US) -  A leather band supporting the body of certain types of carriage
 - A stagecoach
   thorˈoughbraced  adjective  thorˈoughbred  adjective - Thoroughly or completely bred or trained
 - (of a horse) bred from a dam and sire of the best blood, and having the qualities supposed to depend on such breeding
 - Pure-bred
 - (with cap) relating to the Thoroughbred breed of horses
 - High-spirited
     noun - An animal (esp a horse) of pure blood
 - (with cap) a racehorse of a breed descended from any of three Arabian stallions of the early 18c whose ideal gait is the gallop
     thorˈoughfare  noun - A passage or way through
 - A road open at both ends
 - A public way or street
 - Right of passing through
    thorˈoughgoing  adjective - Going through or to the end
 - Going all lengths
 - Complete
 - Out-and-out
    thorˈoughgoingly  adverb  thorˈoughgoingness  noun  thorˈough-paced  adjective - (of a horse) thoroughly or perfectly trained in all paces
 - Complete
    thorˈoughpin  noun (veterinary medicine) Inflammation of a horse's hock joint  thorˈoughwax or thorˈow-wax  noun  The plant hare's-ear, from the stem seeming to wax (ie grow) through the leaves    post-vintage thoroughbred  A car built between 1 January 1931 and 31 December 1941    |