throw meaning
EN
[θɹəʊ] [θɹoʊ] [-əʊ] 
US - NounPLthrows
- The flight of a thrown object; as, a fast throw.
- The act of throwing something.
- A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
- Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
- (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
- (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
- (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
- Misspelling of throe.
- The flight of a thrown object; as, a fast throw.
- VerbSGthrowsPRthrowingPTthrewPPthrown
- (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- throw the switch
- (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
- (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
- The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
- (figuratively) To send desperately.
- Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
- (transitive) To imprison.
- The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
- To organize an event, especially a party.
- 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".
- To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- 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.
- (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
- 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.
- (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
- (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
- “Then, when I throw my voice, when I speak as someone who's quite different from me, it starts to feel very authentic.”
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- 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.
- (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.
- Her friend threw the novels rather a longing look, then turned strongmindedly to the cabinet of belles lettres.
- White witnessed Dickey's athleticism in a more visceral way when they Indian wrestled, locking right arms and right legs and trying to throw each other.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.
- Throw a tarpaulin over that woodpile before it gets wet.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of throw in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Verbs by inflection type
- Irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "throw" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.