Phonetics:
Meanings:
verb
Definition: To change place.
Definition: To change in state or status
Definition: To move through time.
Definition: To be accepted.
Definition: In any game, to decline to play in one’s turn.
Definition: To do or be better.
Definition: To take heed.
Synonyms: take heed, take notice,
noun
Definition: The flight of a thrown object.
Example: What a great throw by the quarterback!
Definition: The act of throwing something.
Example: The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice.
Definition: One’s ability to throw.
Example: He’s always had a pretty decent throw.
Definition: A distance travelled; displacement.
Example: the throw of the piston
Definition: A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
Definition: A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
Example: Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
Definition: A violent effort.
verb
Definition: To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
Example: throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
Synonyms: bowl, bung, buzz, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, direct, fire, fling, flip, heave, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, project, propel, send, shoot, shy, sling, toss, whang,
Definition: To eject or cause to fall off.
Synonyms: eject, throw off,
Definition: To move to another position or condition; to displace.
Example: throw the switch
Synonyms: displace, relocate,
Definition: To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
Definition: (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
Definition: To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
Example: If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
Definition: To intentionally lose a game.
Example: The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
Synonyms: take a dive,
Definition: To confuse or mislead.
Example: The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
Definition: To send desperately.
Example: Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
Definition: To imprison.
Example: The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
Definition: To organize an event, especially a party.
Definition: To roll (a die or dice).
Definition: To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
Definition: To discard.
Definition: To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
Definition: (said of one’s voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
Definition: To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
Definition: To project or send forth.
Definition: To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
Definition: 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.
Definition: (of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
Definition: To install (a bridge).
Definition: To twist or turn.
Example: a thrown nail