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Throw

verb
(past threw; past part. thrown; pres. part. throwing)
1.
Propel through the air.
2.
Move violently, energetically, or carelessly.
3.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw away, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"
4.
Place or put with great energy.  Synonym: thrust.  "Thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
5.
Convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture.  Synonym: give.  "She gave me a dirty look"
6.
Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.  Synonyms: flip, switch.  "Throw the lever"
7.
Put or send forth.  Synonyms: cast, contrive, project.  "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"
8.
To put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly.  "Throw the car into reverse"
9.
Cause to be confused emotionally.  Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate.
10.
Utter with force; utter vehemently.  Synonym: hurl.  "Throw accusations at someone"
11.
Organize or be responsible for.  Synonyms: give, have, hold, make.  "Have, throw, or make a party" , "Give a course"
12.
Make on a potter's wheel.
13.
Cause to fall off.
14.
Throw (a die) out onto a flat surface.
15.
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.  Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle.  "This question completely threw me" , "This question befuddled even the teacher"
noun
1.
The act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist).
2.
A single chance or instance.
3.
The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam.  Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke.
4.
Bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something.
5.
Casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly.



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"Throw" Quotes from Famous Books



... he's bound to throw in his lot with us," added Alston, as they came into the huge curving corridor which ran behind ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
... gets alongside, it is all up with us. She can carry us, by boarding; for she can throw three times our strength of ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty
... arrangements beneath the bed plate. These are shown in Fig. 12, and represent the feed and looper cams, the feeding and looper levers, and the stitch forming mechanism already shown. A most ingenious device in this machine is the arrangement for automatically lengthening the throw of the feed while stitching around the eye of the button hole. It is effected by means of a cam, which imparts more or less leverage to the feed arm by the intervention of a "shipper" lever, hinged to the feed lever itself. The space of time at my disposal ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 • Various
... grandly-sounding phrase, "It is disgraceful to be worsted in a contest of benefits." Whether this be true or not deserves to be investigated, and it means something quite different from what you imagine; for it is never disgraceful to be worsted in any honourable contest, provided that you do not throw down your arms, and that even when conquered you wish to conquer. All men do not strive for a good object with the same strength, resources, and good fortune, upon which depend at all events the issues of the most admirable projects, though we ought to praise the will itself which makes an effort ...
— L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits • Seneca
... manner and a favourite with the ladies. Presently another pirate arrived, one Captain Pease, in an armed ship with a Malay crew. Hayes and Pease quarrelled violently, and the Consul had great trouble to keep the two pirates from coming to blows. This animosity was all a sham to throw dust in the Consul's eyes, for one night Pease sailed away with Hayes, whom he had ...
— The Pirates' Who's Who - Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers • Philip Gosse


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