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Definition of Throw

Throw Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl. 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. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. 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 perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. A stroke; a blow. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. An effort; a violent sally. 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. A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). A turner's lathe; a throwe. The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. Related Definitions: According, Across, Act, Also, Amount, An, Antagonist, Any, Applied, Arm, Army, As, At, Ball, Be, Bear, Blow, Bowl, Bring, By, Cam, Cannon, Carelessly, Cast, Casting, Cause, Certain, Class, Contrary, Crank, Designated, Detachment, Dice, Direction, Displacement, Distance, Distinguished, Divest, Downthrow, Drive, Driving, Dust, Earthen, Eccentric, Eccentricity, Effort, Engine, Equal, Especially, Extinguish, Extreme, Fall, Fault, Fire, Fling, Flinging, For, Forcible, Form, Forth, Frequently, From, Give, Given, Good, Half, Hand, Hastily, He, His, Hurl, Hurling, In, Is, It, Jigger, Lathe, Length, Like, Man, Manner, May, Missile, Moment, More, Motion, Movement, Of, Off, On, One, Or, Overturn, Pain, Perform, Piece, Piston, Position, Potter, Prepared, Produce, Produced, Propel, Propelling, Prostrate, Put, Radius, Reciprocating, River, Rock, Roughly, Said, Sally, See, Self, Send, Shape, Silk, Singles, Slide, Sliding, So, Sometimes, Space, Specifically, Spread, Steam, Stone, Strategic, Stream, Strip, Stroke, Table, Take, The, Themselves, Thread, Threw, Throe, Throw, Throwe, Throwing, Thrown, Time, To, Together, Toss, Travail, Travel, Trice, Turner, Twist, Two, Upon, Upthrow, Utterance, Valve, Vent, Venture, Vertical, Vessel, Vibrating, Violence, Violent, Water, Weaver, Wheel, When, Which, While, Whirling, Whole, With, Wrestling, Young

Throw Quotations Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. Steve Wozniak Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night. Napoleon Bonaparte So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window. Gerard Way

Throw Translations throw in Afrikaans is gooi throw in Danish is kaste throw in Dutch is keilen, werpen, uitspelen, gooien throw in French is jetent, jetez, jetons, mise bas throw in German is Hebel umlegen, Wurf, Wurf, werfen, werfen, Hub throw in Italian is tiro, alzata, gettare throw in Norwegian is kaste throw in Spanish is tirada, echadar

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