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Word: throw
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Meaning:
Noun:
- 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.
- veterinary The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
- obsolete A moment, time, occasion.
- obsolete A period of time; a while.
- Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe
- The flight of a thrown object; as, a fast throw.
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Verb:
- ceramics To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- transitive|computing To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- transitive|cricket Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- sports to intentionally lose a game
- informal To confuse or mislead.
- transitive To cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- transitive To eject or cause to fall off.
- transitive To move to another position; to displace.
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