throughout
θruːˈaʊt
The word that leaves no empty corner
The picture The inside of a boundary is filled from end to end, with not one corner left empty. THROUGHOUT fills the inside into every corner, THROUGH cuts from one side out the other.
Where the picture shows up in throughout
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space into every corner
The smell spread throughout the building.
ðə smel spred θruːˈaʊt ðə ˈbɪldɪŋ
The smell reached every part of the building.
smoke-like smell packs the stairwells and hall corners until no room is left clear
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all the way through a stretch of time
She stayed calm throughout the interview.
ʃiː steɪd kɑːm θruːˈaʊt ðə ˈɪntərvjuː
She was calm from start to finish of the interview.
from the first question to the last, the same face never once wavers
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all over a wide area
We have branches throughout the country.
wiː həv ˈbræntʃɪz θruːˈaʊt ðə ˈkʌntri
We have branches all over the country.
dots sit evenly on the country map, right out to the edge regions
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all night without a break
The baby cried throughout the night.
ðə ˈbeɪbi kraɪd θruːˈaʊt ðə naɪt
The baby cried the whole night.
a band drawn from evening to dawn is filled with crying marks, no gaps
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any time all day
Hot water is available throughout the day.
hɑːt ˈwɔːtər ɪz əˈveɪləbəl θruːˈaʊt ðə deɪ
Hot water runs all day long.
poke the band from morning to night anywhere and water comes out
All of it in one picture
throughout is a box filled to its corners. Let a smell fill the boundary called building and you get the whole building; let one expression fill the stretch called interview and you get start to finish; let shop dots fill the boundary called country and you get everywhere in it. Let crying fill the stretch called night and you get all night, and hot water filling a day gives you all day long.