throw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thrō
ipa: /θɹəʊ/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊əʊ]
enpr: thrō
ipa: /θɹoʊ/
ipa: [θɾ̪̊oʊ]
homophone: throe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: throws
form: throwing
form: threw
form: throwed
form: thrown
form: throwed
form: threw
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: throw
form: throw
form: threw
form: throw
form: throwest
form: threw
form: threwst
form: throws
form: throweth
form: threw
form: throw
form: threw
form: throw
form: threw
form: throw
form: -
form: throwing
form: thrown
form: thrun
Etymology: From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þrāwan (“to turn, twist”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrāan, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”).
Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”).
Displaced warp as the word for hurling and was displaced by warp as the word for twisting.
Senses: examples: text: throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
text: When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: bung
cast
fling
hurl
glosses: To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
examples: text: There the snake throws her enamelled skin.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
synonyms: eject
throw off
glosses: To eject or cause to fall off.
examples: text: throw the switch
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: displace
relocate
glosses: To move to another position or condition; to displace.
examples: text: Through practice, you’ll learn how to add the right amount of water as you throw a pot, and your fingers will feel when the pot has reached the proper thickness.
ref: 2009 January 19, Linda Franz, Basic Pottery Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
raw_tags: of a bowler
examples: text: If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
examples: text: The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
text: Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
ref: 2012 August 1, Peter Walker, Haroon Siddique, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games', Guardian Unlimited:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
synonyms: take a dive
glosses: To intentionally lose a game.
examples: text: The pitcher threw a perfect game.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
examples: text: The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
text: “Jann, why does he hate me so much?” That question threw me. I was expecting a lunatic yelling profanities.
ref: 1999, Jan Blackstone-Ford, The Custody Solutions Sourcebook, page 196:
glosses: To confuse or mislead.
examples: text: Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
text: Stoke threw men forward in numbers as they attempted to find a way back into the game, and Mark Schwarzer was forced into a low save from Huth's close-range effort.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0-2 Fulham”, in BBC:
glosses: To send hastily or desperately.
examples: text: The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
text: The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over.
ref: 1993, Margaret McKee, Fred Chisenhall, Beale black & blue: life and music on black America’s main street, page 30:
glosses: To imprison.
examples: text: She was known for throwing the craziest parties in college.
text: And now, Clevelanders hoping to bring the Rock Roll Hall of Fame to their city are throwing a bash to commemorate the 34th birthday of disc Jockey Alan Freed’s “Moondog Coronation Ball”.
ref: 1986 March 1, “Bash Planned”, in Evening News:
text: Should you be interested, for whatever reason, it will tell you how to throw a party for your 40-year-old husband or your 100-year-old great-grandmother. It also describes games that can be played at various kinds of parties[…]
ref: 1979 July, Working Mother, page 72:
glosses: To organize an event, especially a party.
examples: text: The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.
ref: 1844, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing, Heimskringla:
glosses: To roll (a die or dice).
examples: text: The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.
ref: 1844, Snorri Sturluson, translated by Samuel Laing, Heimskringla:
glosses: To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
examples: text: Declarer threw his queen of spades on the high diamond. He then won the last three tricks with his ace, queen and nine of hearts behind East’s jack third.
ref: 1990 January 4, “Sharp coup overcomes trump split”, in The Washington Times:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: To discard.
examples: text: So they stood up, and wrastled another while in silence. Soon the King made trial once again of the fall whereby he had sought to throw him in the first bout, twisting suddenly his right side against Goldry, and catching with his leg Goldry’s leg, and therewith leaning against him with main force.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 25:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
examples: text: “Then, when I throw my voice, when I speak as someone who’s quite different from me, it starts to feel very authentic.”
ref: 2005 April 13, Leon Neyfakh, “BOOKENDS: Will the Real Jonathan Safran Foer Please Stand Up”, in Harvard Crimson:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Bill runs into the kitchen and tells Dad that Erik is throwing a tantrum. He tells Bill to go back and watch his program and to ignore his brother. Fifteen minutes later, Erik is still screaming[…]
ref: 1991, Janet L. Davies, Ellen Hastings Janosik, Mental health and psychiatric nursing: a caring approach:
text: In 1975, pregnant with the second of her three children, she threw a hissy fit to get on a trip to Boston for elected officials.
ref: 1996 August 19, “Entertaining Mrs Stone”, in New York Magazine, volume 29, number 32:
glosses: To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
examples: text: Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer’s office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: In other European cities the president visited this week, people waited for his motorcade to pass to throw insults at him, requiring the police to intervene with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
ref: 2007 June 11, Claude Salhani, “Analysis: Irony of Bush's European tour”, in UPI:
glosses: To project or send forth.
examples: text: O’er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
ref: 1726, Alexander, transl. Pope, “Book III”, in The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer, line 596; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 543:
glosses: To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
examples: text: A person named Crocket endeavoured to throw silk at Derby in the year 1702 ; but his machinery was imperfect
ref: 1829, Stephen Glover, Thomas Noble, The History of the County of Derby:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I have a minor quibble with Gleason’s decision to throw Lefty Williams in Game Eight with the Series in the balance.
ref: 2009, Michael T. Lynch, Jr., It Ain’t So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: a manager
glosses: To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
raw_tags: of a team
examples: text: […] across the rapid smaragdus-green waters, pouring onward into the country, are thrown three bridges […]
ref: 1860, Fredrika Bremer (trans. Mary Howitt), Life in the Old World, v. 1, p. 164
glosses: To install (a bridge).
examples: text: a thrown nail
glosses: To twist or turn.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of pass.
synonyms: word: pass
examples: text: […] not only did I not want to throw a punch at him, I wanted to give him a solid silver token of thanks […]
ref: 1941, Newsweek, volume 18, page 54:
glosses: To deliver.
raw_tags: of a punch or boxing combination
examples: text: At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.
ref: 1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 49:
text: They can kid twice a year if things are right, and they often throw twins and triplets.
ref: 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 200:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Of animals: to give birth to (young).
Synonyms: word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
Hypernyms: word: catapult
word: direct
word: fire
word: propel
word: send
Hyponyms: word: bowl
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: egg
word: flight
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: flip
word: throw down
Derived terms: bethrow
dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians
forthrow
like throwing a hot dog down a hallway
like throwing a sausage down a hallway
offthrow
outthrow
overthrow
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
throwable
throw a bone to
throw about
throw a fit
throw a kiss
throw a mickey
throw a monkey wrench in the works
throw a monkey wrench into the works
throw an ant into a sty
throw an eye
throw a party
throw a sickie
throw aside
throw a spanner in the works
throw a spanner into the works
throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
throw a tantrum
throw away
throw-away
throw away the key
throw a wet blanket on
throw a wobbly
throw a wrench in
throw a wrench in the gears
throw a wrench in the works
throw a wrench into the works
throwback
throw back
throw bag
throw BBs
throw by
throw caution to the wind
throw chunks
throw cold water on
throw-crook
throw dirt
throw dirt on
throw down
throw down one's tools
throw down the gauntlet
throw dust in someone's eyes
throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick
throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
throw for a loop
throw gasoline on the fire
throw gas on the fire
throw good money after bad
throw hands
throw in
throw in at the deep end
throwing
throw in one's hand
throw in one's lot with
throw in the bark
throw in the cards
throw in the sponge
throw in the towel
throw into a cocked hat
throw in with
throw it back
throw light on
throw line
throw money around
throw nickels around like manhole covers
throw off
throw off balance
throw off on
throw off the trail
throw on
throw one's cap over the windmill
throw oneself at
throw oneself behind
throw oneself into
throw oneself on
throw oneself on someone's mercy not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of
throw oneself upon
throw one's hat in the ring
throw one's hat into the ring
throw one's hat over the fence
throw one's hat over the wall
throw one's hat over the windmill
throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway
throw one's luck in with
throw one's name in the hat
throw one's rattle out of the cot
throw one's rattle out of the pram
throw one's toys out of the cot
throw one's toys out of the pram
throw one's voice
throw one's weight around
throw one's weight behind
throw open
throw out
throw overboard
throw pearls before swine
throw shapes
throw someone a curveball
throw stones
throw tantrums
throw the baby out with the bathwater
throw the book at
throw the bull
throw the bull around
throw the handkerchief
throw the hatchet
throw them bows
throw the rulebook at
throw things at the wall and see what sticks
throw together
throw to the dogs
throw to the lions
throw to the wind
throw to the winds
throw to the wolves
throw true
throw under a bus
throw under the bus
throw up
throw up one's hands
throw up the sponge
throw wobblies
trust someone as far as one could throw them
upthrow