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Drive-through mailboxes in Los Altos, California, United States. A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through), is a type of take-out service provided by a business that allows customers to purchase products (or use the service provided by the business) without leaving their cars. The format was pioneered in the ...
AFAIK "thru" is not a proper word in any dialect of English, anymore than "Xmas" is. "Thru" is simply a handy abbreviation invented and used by sign-writers. I would be more inclined to use "through" throughout (thruout?) the article and relegate "thru" to a sentence to enlighten those who don't understand the concept of abbreviations.
The term through service may be extended to have a wider meaning encompassing a route which allows the passenger to travel without alighting, for example, in a route change announcement, if a route A-B and a route B-C is combined to A-B-C, it may be described as a new "through service" between A and C. [1] [2] This is in contrast with direct ...
Starting Jan. 3, customers can use “any clean, personal cup” for drive-thru and mobile orders at participating Starbucks stores across the U.S, the coffee giant announced. The chain also ...
In addition to the absolute pass-through that uses incremental values (i.e., $2 cost shock causing $1 increase in price yields a 50% pass-through rate), some researchers use pass-through elasticity, where the ratio is calculated based on percentage change of price and cost (for example, with elasticity of 0.5, a 2% increase in cost yields a 1% increase in price).
Through-hole (leaded) resistors. In electronics, through-hole technology (also spelled "thru-hole") is a manufacturing scheme in which leads on the components are inserted through holes drilled in printed circuit boards (PCB) and soldered to pads on the opposite side, either by manual assembly (hand placement) or by the use of automated insertion mount machines.
Thru-hiking, or through-hiking, is the act of hiking an established long-distance trail end-to-end continuously. The term is most frequently used regarding trails in the United States , such as the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), the Appalachian Trail (AT), and the Continental Divide Trail (CDT).
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