MOVE THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does move through mean? 

• MOVE THROUGH (verb)
  The verb MOVE THROUGH has 1 sense:

1. make a passage or journey from one place to another

  Familiarity information: MOVE THROUGH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVE THROUGH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a passage or journey from one place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit

Context example:

Some travelers pass through the desert

Hypernyms (to "move through" is one way to...):

pass (go across or through)

Verb group:

transit (cause or enable to pass through)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move through"):

cut (pass through or across)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The substances in the mixture are separated based on how far they move through the material.

(Chromatography, NCI Dictionary)

Venus will move through Capricorn from November 25 until December 19, a very bright and beautiful place for Venus to be for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

These steps are repeated many times as the tubes move through the whole small intestine.

(DBE, NCI Dictionary)

Proteins produced by the hepatocytes are transferred to the blood via the perisinusoidal space as blood fluids easily move through the epithelium and microvilli.

(Perisinusoidal Space, NCI Thesaurus)

A computerized system for tracking the status and location of a patient as they move through a medical facility.

(Patient Tracking System, NCI Thesaurus)

Veins such as these form where fluids move through cracked rock and deposit minerals in the fractures, often affecting the chemistry of the rock surrounding the fractures.

(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)

If a cancer cell is softer, that make it easier to move through tissue and metastasize.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

An intestinal obstruction occurs when food or stool cannot move through the intestines.

(Intestinal Obstruction, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

From the early endosome, receptors can either be recycled back to the cell surface, or they can move through the late endosome to the lysosome for proteolytic degradation.

(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used materials with a complex crystalline structure and found that lithium ions move through them at rates that far exceed those of typical electrode materials, which equates to a much faster-charging battery.

(New class of materials could be used to make batteries that charge faster, University of Cambridge)