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Asphalt road in Norway. A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places that has been surfaced or otherwise improved to allow travel by foot or some form of conveyance, including a motor vehicle, cart, bicycle, or horse.
Roundabout or traffic circle, a type of intersection that directs both turning and through traffic onto a one-way circular roadway; Trail/track, a rough path through more wild or remote territory; Many other types of road; Strait or channel, a heavily trafficked water route [3] Street – Public thoroughfare in a built environment
The term "through-composed" is also applied to opera and musical theater to indicate a work that consists of an uninterrupted stream of music from beginning to end, as in the operas of Wagner. This stands in contrast to the practice, as for example occurs in Mozart's Italian - and German-language operas, of having a collection of songs ...
Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt each wrote that "Thoreau" is pronounced like the word thorough (/ ˈ θ ʌr oʊ / THURR-oh—in General American, [9] [10] but more precisely / ˈ θ ɔːr oʊ / THOR-oh—in 19th-century New England).
Thorough (policy) of Laud and Wentworth in England and Ireland in the 1630s; Thorough Guides, late-Victorian travel guides; HMS Thorough, British submarine 1942–62; Thorough-bass, a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones, in relation to the bass note they are placed above or below.
borough, Poughkeepsie, thorough, Willoughby, yarborough Pronounced / oʊ / when at the end of a word in American English (borough and thorough thus rhyme with burrow and furrow), but reduced to / ə / when followed by another syllable in many dialects (such as in thoroughly). / ʌ p /, / ə p / hiccough Variant spelling of the more common ...
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Crest and trough in a wave. A Crest point on a wave is the highest point of the wave. A crest is a point on a surface wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum. A trough is the opposite of a crest, so the minimum or lowest point of the wave.