What does throw mean

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throw

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

throw

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a court dismisses/throws out sth (=refuses to allow or consider something)

▪ The court dismissed his appeal against conviction.

be thrown/plunged into chaos

▪ A serious accident has thrown the roads into chaos.

call/bring/throw sth into question (=make people doubt it)

▪ He brought into question all the principles on which the Soviet system was based.

call/throw sth into doubt (=make people unsure about something)

▪ The accuracy of his account was called into doubt.

cast/throw a glance (=look quickly)

▪ She cast a shy glance toward Shelby.

cast/throw a shadow (=make it appear)

▪ The building cast a shadow across the narrow street.

cast/throw doubt on sth (=make people unsure about something)

▪ Research has cast doubt on the safety of mobile phones.

dismiss/throw out a case (=officially stop it from continuing)

▪ The case was thrown out by New York state’s highest court.

dismiss/throw out/turn down an appeal (=not give permission for a decision to be changed)

▪ The taxpayer's appeal was dismissed and the penalty upheld.

have/throw a tantrum

▪ She throws a tantrum when she can’t have the toy she wants.

knock/throw sb off balance

▪ The blow was hard enough to knock him off balance.

last...throw of the dice

▪ a last desperate throw of the dice to try and win his wife back

not trust sb an inch/not trust sb as far as you can throw them (=not trust someone at all)

put/throw sth in the bin (also chuck sth in the bininformal)

▪ Shall I put this old bread in the bin?

threw a conniption fit

▪ My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.

threw...open

▪ He threw the door open and ran down the stairs.

throw a ball

▪ Suzy threw the ball to Matthew.

throw a punch (=try to hit someone)

▪ Rob was so angry that he turned round and threw a punch at the man.

throw a switch (=move it so something starts or stops, especially something big)

▪ Could a nuclear war really be started by someone just throwing a switch?

throw away a lead (=to lose the lead)

▪ Arsenal threw away a two-goal lead.

throw away/pass up/turn down a chance (=not accept or use an opportunity)

▪ Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!

throw pillow

throw sb in jail (=put sb in jail)

▪ Drunks were thrown in jail for a few days.

throw sth into disarray/fall into disarray

▪ The delay threw the entire timetable into disarray.

throw/give a party (=organize it)

▪ Staff threw a party to celebrate the news.

throw/knock/push etc sb off-balance

▪ The sudden movement of the ship knocked them both off balance.

thrown open

▪ The discussion was then thrown open for the audience’s questions.

thrown...out of kilter

▪ Pollution has thrown the Earth’s chemistry out of kilter.

thrown...sickie (=pretended to be sick and not gone to work)

▪ Looks like he’s thrown another sickie.

throw/plunge sb into confusion

▪ The unexpected news threw us all into confusion.

throw/roll the dice

▪ It’s your turn to roll the dice.

throw/send sb into a panic

▪ The innocent question threw her into a panic.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

away

▪ All equipment is sterile, used once and thrown away.

▪ George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money.

▪ To his chagrin we threw away the letter about a skiing holiday.

▪ Is it now time to throw away the charts and graphs, have a ceremonial burning of the diary?

▪ Looking back, Frank knows he victimised himself and threw away a good career opportunity with a quality company. 2.

▪ You don't have a life to throw away yet, but I do.

▪ Strip-mined land is land thrown away.

down

▪ He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.

▪ Men in blackface threw down a refresher before returning to their roles.

▪ The gauntlet is being thrown down by Pemex to the international community.

▪ They are financial swashbucklers, ready to throw down fortunes betting that a certain currency may rise or fall.

▪ He threw down the washing-up mop and stood stock-still for a moment, gripping the edge of the sink.

▪ McAlister wiped his mouth and threw down his napkin and stood.

▪ This stormy summer threw down and scattered grain, held berries back from ripening.

▪ The pitch of politicians is more strident, the gauntlet is thrown down more quickly, the stakes get higher faster.

off

▪ He threw off the pau and stood there over her, naked, seeing how eagerly she watched him now.

▪ Weinke threw off-target and the Seminoles' receivers dropped passes on many occasions when they were open.

▪ Prince William threw off his family worries to join restaurant staff in dancing on the tables.

▪ Tobie exclaimed, throwing off her coat and curling up on the sofa.

▪ Self-recognition is the key to change, to throwing off these barriers to further our growth.

▪ He threw off a mound for about six minutes, twice between starts.

▪ The City has been quite good at throwing off old habits, less good at mastering new disciplines.

▪ He too leapt from the bed, throwing off his covers.

open

▪ Swords and dirks drawn, they ran up, threw open the great door, and flung themselves within.

▪ Sullivan threw open the appointment book and checked the date.

▪ He threw open the door and came in.

▪ I threw open the front door and looked into the street.

▪ Jett threw open the drawing room door just on the stroke of twelve.

▪ They explored, throwing open the shutters in each of the big rooms, but there was nothing.

▪ He undid the tough leather straps and threw open the lid.

▪ Black day A funeral home was throwing open its doors today with guided tours around the coffins, memorial stones and hearses.

out

▪ He won't know what to keep and would probably just throw out everything.

▪ My small upstairs stove throws out a lot of heat and is probably fuel efficient.

▪ The House had also wanted all regulation to be reviewed after a period, and thrown out if it looked dated.

▪ Johnson throws out so many would-be base stealers-44. 6 percent in 1997-few runners even try.

▪ When that was discovered she had been thrown out on the streets, and subsequently forced to live in a brothel.

▪ Some of the first batches were thrown out because tests showed they may have contained live virus.

▪ Libion, the kindly café proprietor, was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out.

▪ We need to go further and throw out the term itself.

together

▪ My costume had been somewhat haphazardly thrown together, the result being a cross between Mary Poppins and Nurse Matilda.

▪ I guess the modern equivalent of the actual party would be that Reform joke Ross Perot threw together.

▪ They shared political and intellectual interests and were often thrown together.

▪ The oldest one, thrown together and sealed in 1968, is now 25 years old.

▪ However, in cyberspace, geographical boundaries are irrelevant, and people of different views are thrown together.

▪ In very few cases are the boys and girls thrown together more than two years before their marriages.

▪ As we have seen, it isn't easy to throw together a flying machine.

▪ They spend long days in programs where children of many ages may be thrown together.

▪ I threw up all over my mum's slippers!

▪ A man pulled on to the site in a truck, got out, and threw up his hand.

▪ Pits in front of the heavy bunker doors, which incline outwards, collect any debris thrown up during an attack.

▪ He leaned back and threw up his legs, using them to raise the pole until his feet were on the rope.

▪ She wept until she threw up.

▪ Nothing could be accomplished until a great wall of rocks and earth was thrown up to hold back the raging waters.

▪ Once, Cardiff could have imagined himself throwing up at the sight of that horror behind the wheel.

▪ Jenny exclaimed to E.. Ames, throwing up her hands.

■ NOUN

ball

▪ Both sides threw the ball about and scored five tries each.

▪ Take the act of throwing a ball.

▪ It is a little like throwing a ball out of a moving train.

▪ A lot of people put in that situation think they can throw the ball down the middle.

▪ As it reaches its peak throw the second ball underneath it towards your left hand.

▪ We decided we were going to open up the offense and throw the ball down the field more.

▪ Not bad for hitting, throwing and catching a ball - but also unaffordable.

▪ He can hit a thrown ball with a stick of wood.

punch

▪ Hull were reduced to 12 men on the hour when Mark Jones was sent off for throwing a punch at Gary Tees.

▪ I throw a lot of punches and they all count.

▪ Begin from a fighting stance, perhaps by throwing a light snap punch into the opponent's face from the front hand.

▪ Whitaker will throw enough punches to win on points.

▪ This means that even if the opponent throws a punch, you will have drawn back and out of range.

▪ I saw men in red shirts throwing punches at an old man.

▪ He elbowed the Saracens number 8, Barry Crawley, who in turn, threw a punch which floored the Gloucester man.

▪ I began throwing punches whenever I thought no one was looking.

shadow

▪ The firelight danced on the old oak walls and threw strange shadows around the room.

▪ In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.

▪ Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth, they now survive in a few straggling colonies.

▪ Occasionally we would pass a big orange flame at a well site, throwing spokes of shadow across the prairie.

▪ In the bar, a single candle threw grotesque shadows across the ceiling.

▪ Individual blades of grass threw long shadows on the leafless driveway.

▪ The sun lifted over the hills and threw their shadows across the road.

▪ The Embarcadero Freeway and its access ramps no longer throw a shadow on the waterfront.

stone

▪ She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when some one threw it from the bucket.

▪ Police were pelted by stones thrown by demonstrators, some from rooftops, witnesses said.

▪ No more stones were being thrown.

▪ A lad lifted a stone to throw.

▪ Yet there are people who see the stones throw distance from there to the covered market as an intolerable distance.

▪ One told of how his wife regularly has stones thrown at her when she goes shopping.

▪ Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window.

tantrum

▪ If you have children, you may have experienced them coming home from school and immediately throwing a tantrum in front of you.

▪ Two seasons ago Sprewell did throw a year-long temper tantrum.

▪ But she could not go home, given how she felt; fit to throw a tantrum.

▪ He threw a temper tantrum at school when two of the newcomers took his soccer ball.

▪ He threw a tantrum when she complained he should have treated her earlier.

▪ Children beg, cry, throw temper tantrums, flatter, and employ countless techniques to get what they want.

▪ You will not scream and throw a tantrum.

▪ A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a stone's throw from sth/away (from sth)

a throw of the dice

bring/throw sth into relief

▪ The touches or larger areas of primary colours that throw the figures into relief are now less strident, more resonant.

cast/throw pearls before swine

catch/throw sb off balance

▪ A badly packed rucksack can easily throw you off balance.

▪ And despite what he'd said, less a token of affection than a means of throwing her off balance.

▪ But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive.

▪ He had an authority, an abrupt decisiveness, that caught me off balance.

▪ It throws the viewer off balance but speaks to the part of each person that is capable, potent and dignified.

▪ She has a problem with some little gland or other, which can throw her right off balance.

▪ The movement threw him off balance.

▪ Waking up to that penetrating ice-blue gaze was enough to throw anyone off balance for the rest of the day.

catch/throw sb off guard

▪ Could the upper management of a leading firm like Merrill Lynch be caught so entirely off guard?

▪ I said it suddenly like that, just blurted it out, and I guess it caught him off guard.

▪ Penelope flinched, angry at her thoughts, and at the girl who had caught her off guard.

▪ She really caught me off guard with her comments.

▪ The president faces issues that can catch him off guard and undermine his authority.

▪ The question caught Firebug off guard.

▪ The words caught him off guard.

▪ This caught me completely off guard.

catch/throw sb off-balance

have/throw a fit

▪ Mom's going to have a fit when she sees what you've done.

▪ But it was clear to all that the then Massachusetts governor would have fit snugly into the capital cocoon.

▪ He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage.

▪ He would have fit in perfectly back in 1956, the last time they had a Subway Series.

▪ I have fitted the 31/10.15 tyres to 15 x 7 rims.

▪ It would definitely not have fitted those of Marthe and myself.

▪ She continued to have fits and suffered serious and permanent brain damage.

▪ The 2-year-old threw fits, but not just the normal toddler tantrums.

▪ There must be hundreds, maybe thousands, of sea anglers who have fitted a Decca-receiving navigator to their own boat.

jump/be thrown in at the deep end

knock/throw sb for a loop

▪ His next question totally knocked me for a loop. He said, "So what makes you think you're good enough to get into law school?"

▪ His response really threw me for a loop.

▪ Joanna totally threw me for a loop.

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

put/throw a spanner in the works

throw a (monkey) wrench in sth

throw a wobbly

▪ I mean, I threw a wobbly when I first heard about this Med plumbing lark.

▪ She loves the telephone, and she threw a wobbly when I wouldn't let her play with it.

▪ Throwing tantrums Having a toddler thrown a wobbly in public is perhaps one of parenting's most embarrassing episodes.

throw down the gauntlet

▪ At this point Morag Harkness, Sales Manager threw down the gauntlet and challenged the guys to a netball match.

▪ Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony, including Wally Fuentes Morrison, and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet.

▪ Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group.

▪ It's going on five years since Earl Woods threw down the gauntlet and the snickering has stopped.

throw in/cast your lot with sb/sth

▪ All you have to do is throw in your lot with me.

▪ At the next meeting of the Unionist Cabinet Ministers Boscawen threw in his lot with me.

▪ Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.

▪ I suppose we are right to throw in our lot with them.

▪ Like Dudley Williams, Jamison threw in her lot with Alvin early on, at the start of her career.

▪ She threw in her lot with the Jowles.

▪ The Dance caught on everywhere, and eventually Sitting Bull himself threw in his lot with the shakers.

throw sb a curve

▪ The governor threw them a curve when he announced that funding would be cut.

▪ He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.

▪ Just when you thought you had it all figured out, it threw you a curve like this.

▪ The flushing models have thrown a curve to geophysicists trying to work out how this cycle has come about.

throw sth into high relief

throw sth overboard

throw your weight about/around

▪ But being annual they would be open to reprisals if they threw their weight around too much.

▪ But that bloody Caitlin, he had to throw his weight around.

▪ Do we in petty ways throw our weight around?

▪ How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way?

▪ It's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around.

▪ Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around.

▪ Mortgage traders were the sort of fat people who grunt from the belly and throw their weight around, like sumo wrestlers.

▪ Very strong in his own way, not swaggering or throwing his weight about, but a great inner strength.

throw your weight behind sb/sth

▪ But Gloucester learnt their lesson and threw their weight behind the task.

▪ Chris is following in the footsteps of other Merseyside sports personalities by throwing his weight behind drugs prevention.

▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.

▪ The idea has been mooted of throwing our weight behind her version.

▪ When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.

▪ Why he chose to throw his weight behind a man who stood such a slender chance remains unclear.

throw yourself on sb's mercy

▪ For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady.

▪ I would throw myself on the mercy of the circuit-house, usually reserved for traveling politicians and sundry bigwigs.

▪ You're so sweet I just wanted to throw myself on your mercy and beg you to help me.

throw/cast caution to the winds

▪ Anything less truly would be throwing caution to the winds.

▪ My friends and their little daughter went splashing blithely in so I threw caution to the winds and followed.

▪ The two of us threw caution to the winds and raced to the rescue.

throw/put sb off the scent

▪ And why should I try to throw you off the scent?

▪ But he'd got to put Graham off the scent.

▪ Or were they trying to put him off the scent?

▪ That put them off the scent.

▪ The aspirant towards a more spiritual way of life will be thrown entirely off the scent.

throw/shed/cast light on sth

▪ Newly found Aztec artifacts may shed some light on their mysterious culture.

▪ A fretful wind was not enough to open them and shed light on the ruptured earth in which they lay.

▪ An analysis of the results should shed light on the workings of the Northern Ireland labour market.

▪ Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions.

▪ He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity, and indeterminacy to comment on free will.

▪ In addition, the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities' changing economic roles.

▪ Owing to the small sample size, the results can only be expected to shed light on the trends.

▪ Therefore they shed light on the comparative institutional questions with which we are concerned.

▪ This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.

throw/toss your hat into the ring

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A couple of kids started throwing stones at my window.

▪ A small plane was lifted up and thrown across the tarmac by a freak gust of wind.

▪ Carrie threw him a box of matches.

▪ Cromartie ran after the ball and threw it back to the pitcher in one smooth movement.

▪ He threw the ball so hard it went over their heads.

▪ I could answer most of the questions but the last one really threw me.

▪ I was cycling home when I got hit by a car and thrown off my bike.

▪ Joe Jackson was one of eight Chicago White Sox accused of throwing the 1919 World Series.

▪ John stood on the beach, throwing stones into the waves.

▪ Julie threw the basketball straight into the net.

▪ Rick was Kitty's boyfriend, you know, and his death threw her for a loop.

▪ She's only three, and she can throw pretty accurately.

▪ She was so angry that she threw the pan straight at my head.

▪ The blast from the explosion threw debris high up into the air.

▪ The boys were throwing and catching a frisbee on the beach.

▪ The La Scala crowd cheered and threw flowers to the 57 year old tenor.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.

▪ Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall.

▪ Elmer throws him a hand of hay and pours a scoop of sweet feed into his trough.

▪ Organisers denied reports that punches were thrown.

▪ They would go to a hospital where they would throw a dice.

▪ This threw George, and he got his lines wrong.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

free

▪ He even took out his mouthpiece and chatted up the referees during free throws.

▪ Eddie is 100 percent from the free throw line.

▪ After Delk missed his free throw, Armstrong hit two free throws with 21 seconds left.

▪ A mad scramble followed a Dollar free throw, and Hamilton eventually grabbed the ball on the right wing.

▪ Chris Childs hit two free throws to make it 88-87.

▪ A 72. 7-percent free throw shooter, Hamilton hit the shot, an the score was tied.

▪ He was fouled immediately and made both free throws to give the Knicks a 91-88 lead.

▪ Missed free throws usually indicate when a team becomes tired.

long

▪ Good long throw and it will all be over.

▪ On his one attempt at a long throw, he overthrew James Jett.

▪ Gray's long throw was headed clear but Turner was well placed to belt it straight back from 20 yards out.

▪ His long throw allowed Chris Kiwomya to plunder the opening goal after 56 minutes.

▪ It stood almost alone, for the immediate houses on either side were both a long stone's throw away.

■ NOUN

stone

▪ Peter: Well, cause trouble, you know; play knocking on doors, throw stones at windows and that.

▪ The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me.

▪ Mummy, please let me go and throw stones at the idiots.

■ VERB

make

▪ He was fouled immediately and made both free throws to give the Knicks a 91-88 lead.

▪ He made several crucial third-down throws, especially in leading the Steelers to a momentum-altering touchdown late in the first half.

▪ Then Willis made two more free throws.

▪ They made enough free throws in the final minutes to maintain a multi-possession lead.

▪ Sally makes both her free throws.

▪ Over a period of 4 minutes 28 seconds, the Lakers scored one basket and made two free throws.

▪ All you have to do is make a free throw and she gets splashed.