Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word THROW
THROW
Definitions of THROW
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- The flight of a thrown object.
- The act of throwing something.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- (transitive) To imprison.
- (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
- (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- (transitive) To install (a bridge).
- (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
- (American football) Synonym of pass
- (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
- (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
- Obsolete spelling of throe.
- (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
- (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
- (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
- (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
- One’s ability to throw.
- The distance travelled by something thrown.
- A distance travelled in general; displacement.
- (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
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Examples of Using THROW in a Sentence
- To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.
- Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target; it is played using rules similar to golf.
- Murder-hole, or meurtrière, a hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could fire, throw, or pour harmful substances or objects down on attackers.
- The heptathlon consists of the 200 meter and 800 meter runs, the 100 meter hurdles, the shot put, the javelin throw, the high jump, and the long jump in track and field: three track events and four field events.
- Elsa Katrine Hattestad (née Solberg; born 18 April 1966) is a retired Norwegian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
- Straw man tactics in the United Kingdom may also be known as an Aunt Sally, after a pub game of the same name, where patrons throw sticks or battens at a post to knock off a skittle balanced on top.
- The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae or ballistas, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.
- The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin.
- Intuitively, the additivity property says that the probability assigned to the union of two disjoint (mutually exclusive) events by the measure should be the sum of the probabilities of the events; for example, the value assigned to the outcome "1 or 2" in a throw of a dice should be the sum of the values assigned to the outcomes "1" and "2".
- They colonize wood-based mulches and may throw black, sticky, spore-containing globs onto nearby surfaces.
- The success of Halina Konopacka, a Polish athlete who won gold in the discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics, inspired Walasiewicz to join the local branch of the Sokół movement, a Polish sports and patriotic organization active among the Polish diaspora.
- Stephens, nicknamed the "Fulton Flash" after her birthplace, Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in sprint events—she never lost a race in her entire career—and also in weight events such as the shot put and discus throw.
- Burleigh Arland Grimes (August 18, 1893 – December 6, 1985) was an American professional baseball player and manager, and the last pitcher officially permitted to throw the spitball.
- Ships often became becalmed in mid-ocean in this latitude, thus severely prolonging the voyage; the resulting water shortages made it impossible for the crew to keep the horses alive, and they would throw the dead or dying animals overboard.
- "The Sirenum Scopuli are sharp rocks that stand about a stone's throw from the south side of the island" of Capri, was Joseph Addison's confident identification.
- In the battle initiated by the Centaurs, he tried to throw a rock at his opponents but was killed by Theseus.
- In the summer of 1938, Republican forces crossed the Ebro in an attempt to throw back the Nationalist armies of General Franco.
- Omecihuatl, for her part, gave birth to many children on the Thirteen Heavens with Ometecuhtli, and after all these births she had given birth to a flint, which in their language they call tecpatl, from which the other gods were amazed and frightened, their children agreed to throw it out of the heavens to the said flint, and thus they put into action, and that it fell in a certain part of the earth, called Chicomoztoc, which means 'Seven Caves', and that then one thousand and six hundred gods and goddesses came out of it, the Nauhtzonteteo that spread over the face of the earth, the sea, the underworld, and the heavens.
- In a series of vignettes, Company follows bachelor Bobby interacting with his married friends, who throw a party for his 35th birthday.
- After the first throw, the caster (and others, via side bets) may wager an additional sum that the chance will come before the main.
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