thorough

«thorough» in Mova's school dictionary: Done completely, carefully and with attention to every… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (thorough, more thorough, most thorough)

meaning for a pupil

1) Done completely, carefully and with attention to every detail: a thorough check. tree →

2) (of a person) Careful to do everything well. tree →

3) (informal, UK) Complete, total: a thorough nuisance. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school a thorough answer covers every part of the question; a thorough search looks everywhere. In science, a thorough investigation repeats tests and checks results. In safety, a thorough check of a bike before riding catches problems. Adverb: thoroughly («wash your hands thoroughly»).

examples

• The police made a thorough search of the house. tree →
• Give your bike a thorough check before a long ride. tree →
• She is very thorough with her homework. tree →
• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap. tree →
• The dentist gave my teeth a thorough clean. tree →
• He's a thorough nuisance! tree →
• They found none, however: but the vines, after so thorough a digging, produced a crop such as had never before been seen. tree →

note

Spelling trap: thorough (THUR-uh) ≠ through (THROO) ≠ though (THOH) ≠ thought (THAWT) ≠ threw. Noun: thoroughness.

In the corpora

• "Enhanced pat-down" is a US official phrase for a thorough body search, for example at an airport.
• Seeing your coins pile up in a see-through jar helps keep you going; this push to keep going is called motivation.
• Insects breathe through tiny holes along their bodies, not through lungs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thorough» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.