Usually means: Propel an object through air.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. throw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. throw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. throw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. throw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Throw, throw: Wordnik
  7. throw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. throw: Wiktionary
  9. throw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. throw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. throw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. throw, throw (n.): Dictionary.com
  13. throw (n.), throw (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. throw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Throw (grappling), Throw (projector), Throw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Throw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. throw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. throw: Rhymezone
  19. throw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. throw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. throw: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Throw, Throw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. throw: Free Dictionary
  24. throw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. throw: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. throw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. throw: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. throw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. throw: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. throw, throw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. throw: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. throw: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Throw: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  4. Throw: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Throw: Pottery Studio

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
verb:  (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
verb:  (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
verb:  (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
verb:  (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
verb:  (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
verb:  (transitive) To imprison.
verb:  (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
verb:  (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
verb:  (transitive, bridge) To discard.
verb:  (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
verb:  (transitive) To project or send forth.
verb:  To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
verb:  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.
verb:  (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).
verb:  (transitive) To install (a bridge).
verb:  (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
verb:  (American football) Synonym of pass
verb:  (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
verb:  (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
noun:  The act of throwing something.
noun:  (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
noun:  One’s ability to throw.
noun:  The distance travelled by something thrown.
noun:  The flight of a thrown object.
noun:  A distance travelled in general; displacement.
noun:  A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
noun:  (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
noun:  (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
noun:  (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
noun:  (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
noun:  Obsolete spelling of throe. [A severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die.]
verb:  Obsolete spelling of throe. [(transitive) To cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.]

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