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Throw   /θroʊ/   Listen
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Throw  v. t.  (past threw; past part. thrown; pres. part. throwing)  
1.
To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
2.
To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
3.
To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
4.
(Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
5.
To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
6.
To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. "Set less than thou throwest."
7.
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. "O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw."
8.
To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. "There the snake throws her enameled skin."
9.
(Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
10.
To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. "I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth."
11.
To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; said especially of rabbits.
12.
To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, 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.
To throw away.
(a)
To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
(b)
To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
To throw back.
(a)
To retort; to cast back, as a reply.
(b)
To reject; to refuse.
(c)
To reflect, as light.
To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment.
To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall.
To throw in.
(a)
To inject, as a fluid.
(b)
To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment.
(c)
To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain.
To throw off.
(a)
To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease.
(b)
To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
(c)
To make a start in a hunt or race. (Eng.)
To throw on, to cast on; to load.
To throw one's self down, to lie down neglectively or suddenly.
To throw one's self on or To throw one's self upon.
(a)
To fall upon.
(b)
To resign one's self to the favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose upon.
To throw out.
(a)
To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel. "The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile." "The bill was thrown out."
(b)
To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks."
(c)
To distance; to leave behind.
(d)
To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment.
(e)
To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light.
(f)
To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator.
To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties.
To throw up.
(a)
To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. "Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand."
(b)
To reject from the stomach; to vomit.
(c)
To construct hastily; as, to throw up a breastwork of earth.


Throw  v. i.  (past threw; past part. thrown; pres. part. throwing)  To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. (R.)


noun
Throw  n.  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. (Obs.)


Throw  n.  Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. (Obs.) "I will with Thomas speak a little throw."


Throw  n.  
1.
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. "He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe."
2.
A stroke; a blow. (Obs.) "Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws."
3.
The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
4.
A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
5.
An effort; a violent sally. (Obs.) "Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul."
6.
(Mach.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
7.
(Pottery) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
8.
A turner's lathe; a throwe. (Prov. Eng.)
9.
(Mining) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.





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"Throw" Quotes from Famous Books



... francs Oscar was seized with the fury of play and insisted on taking the cards himself. By the result of a chance not at all uncommon with those who play for the first time, he won. But Georges bewildered him with advice; told him when to throw the cards, and even snatched them from his hand; so that this conflict of wills and intuitions injured his vein. By three o'clock in the morning, after various changes of fortune, and still drinking punch, Oscar ...
— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac
... heard through the camp. And men with the Cross of Christ upon their shoulders had the name of the devil continually on their tongues. Nor was this the worst. Vice reigned all around in its grossest form; and the saint-king complained mournfully to the Lord of Joinville, that, within a stone's-throw of his own pavilion, houses of infamous repute were kept by his ...
— The Boy Crusaders - A Story of the Days of Louis IX. • John G. Edgar
... observation of Mr. Weller's bore reference to a demonstration Mr. Winkle made at the instant, of a frantic desire to throw his feet in the air, and dash the back of his ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... so; 30 Whate'er he's pleased to own, can need no show: That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass. 'Twere folly now a stately[48] pile to raise, To build a playhouse, while you throw down plays; While scenes, machines, and empty operas reign, And for the pencil you the pen disdain: While troops of famish'd Frenchmen hither drive, And laugh at those upon whose alms they live: Old English authors vanish, and give place ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... of about forty paces, which we judged to be beyond wooden spear-throw, we rested upon our paddles to see what would happen. All the crowd of islanders had rushed to the lake edge where they stood staring at us stupidly. Bastin, thinking the occasion opportune, lifted the hideous head of the idol which he had carefully washed, and began ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard


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