throw

English Online Dictionary. What means throw‎? What does throw mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: thrō, IPA^(key): /θɹəʊ/, [θɾ̪̊əʊ]
• (General American) enPR: thrō, IPA^(key): /θɹoʊ/, [θɾ̪̊oʊ]
• Homophone: throe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw or (nonstandard) throwed, past participle thrown or (nonstandard) throwed or (nonstandard) threw)

1. (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one's hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.

   Synonyms: bung, cast, fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
2. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.

   Synonyms: eject, throw off

3. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.

   Synonyms: displace, relocate
4. (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
5. (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
6. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

7. (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.

   Synonym: take a dive
8. (sports, transitive) (of a game where one's role is throwing something) to perform in a specified way in (a match).

9. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
10. (transitive, figuratively) To send desperately.
11. (transitive) To imprison.
12. (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
13. (transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
14. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
15. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
16. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
17. (transitive) 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.
18. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
19. (transitive) To project or send forth.
20. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
21. 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.
22. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
23. (transitive) To install (a bridge).
    • 1860, Fredrika Bremer (trans. Mary Howitt), Life in the Old World, v. 1, p. 164.

      […] across the rapid smaragdus-green waters, pouring onward into the country, are thrown three bridges ...

24. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.

25. (American football) Synonym of pass
26. (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
27. (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).

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References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. The flight of a thrown object.

2. The act of throwing something.
3. One's ability to throw.

5. A distance travelled; displacement.
6. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

   Synonym: throwover

7. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

8. (veterinary medicine) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

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References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English þrāh, þrāg (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þragjan, “to run”).

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
2. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.

Synonyms

• stound

Etymology 3

See throe.

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. Obsolete spelling of throe.

Verb

throw (third-person singular simple present throws, present participle throwing, simple past threw, past participle thrown)

1. Obsolete spelling of throe.

Anagrams

• -worth, Worth, whort, worth, wroth