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To change place.
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To change in state or status
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To move through time.
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To be accepted.
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In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
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To do or be better.
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To take heed.
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To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
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throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
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To eject or cause to fall off.
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To move to another position or condition; to displace.
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throw the switch
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To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
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(of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
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To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
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If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
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To intentionally lose a game.
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The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match.
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To confuse or mislead.
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The deliberate red herring threw me at first.
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To send desperately.
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Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle.
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To imprison.
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The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail.
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To organize an event, especially a party.
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To roll (a die or dice).
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To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
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To discard.
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To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
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(said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
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To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
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To project or send forth.
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To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
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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.
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(of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
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To install (a bridge).
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To twist or turn.
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a thrown nail
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(said of animals) To give birth to.
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Launched by throwing.
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a thrown weapon
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Twisted into a single thread, as silk or yarn.
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Confused; perplexed.
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I was totally thrown by his bizarre remarks.
Her stomach was content, and she hadn't thrown up.
Could she win back what she had thrown away?
Barricades were thrown up in the principal streets, and the surrounding houses were occupied by the insurgents.
The horse stumbled, and his rider was thrown heavily to the ground.
Probably to be thrown into a lake of fire.
He'd thrown down the gauntlet.
Now both of you get in here before we make a scene that gets us all thrown out.
When she reminded him that he was going over the thousand-dollar figure he had thrown out, he merely shrugged.
Bound hand and foot he was thrown alive into a mould in which a block of concrete was about to be made.
An axle carrying four cams is normally at rest, but it is thrown into gear with the mechanism when the armature rises, makes one complete revolution, and comes to rest ready for the next signal.
Probably no more arduous task was ever thrown upon a public department than that imposed on the Post Office by the transfer.
Much light was thrown upon their position by the agricultural inquiry (inchiesta agraria) completed in 1884.
But the laws have not been rigorously enforced of late years; and the ecclesiastical possessions seized by the state were thrown on the market simultaneously, and so realized very low prices, being often bought up by wealthy religious institutions.
A Bourbon at Versailles, a Habsburg at Vienna, or a thick-lipped Lorrainer, with a stroke of his pen, wrote off province against province, regarding not the populations who had bled for him or thrown themselves upon his mercy.
In June 1675 he signed the paper of advice drawn up by the bishops for the king, urging the rigid enforcement of the laws against the Roman Catholics, their complete banishment from the court, and the suppression of conventicles, 2 and a bill introduced by him imposing special taxes on recusants and subjecting Roman Catholic priests to imprisonment for life was only thrown out as too lenient because it secured offenders from the charge of treason.
He was absent in 1692 when the Place Bill was thrown out.
By means of similar head-jerks the skins of insects sucked dry of their contents are thrown out of the pit, which is then kept clear of refuse.
The man was thrown into the air and caught upon the points of spears.
According to the account given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain by his wife' alone in a bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.
The author was a moderate republican, and was cashiered and thrown into prison; but the counter-revolution set him at liberty.
In 1278 his books were condemned by Jerome de Ascoli, general of the Franciscans, afterwards Pope Nicholas IV., and he himself was thrown into prison for fourteen years.
According to the Arabian geographer, Yaqut, Persian scorpions were thrown into the place when it was besieged by Anushirwan; hence their numbex to-day.
When the switch S is closed, K acts simply as a commutator or current-reverser, but if K is thrown over from right to left while S is opened, not only is the current reversed, but its strength is at the same time diminished by the interposition of the adjustable resistance R2.
It is profoundly affecting to contemplate this man, a mere wreck from gout, shrinking from no fatigue, no labour, and no personal sacrifices; disregarding the obstacles and difficulties thrown in his way by cardinals and temporal princes, whose fatal infatuation refused to see the peril which hung above them all; recurring time after time, with all his intellect and energy, to the realization of his scheme; and finally adopting the high-hearted resolve of placing himself at the head of the crusade.
The Vatican library was enriched and thrown open for public use, Platina - the historian of the popes--receiving the post of librarian.
All their conquests were lost; and the pope now determined to chastise the Orsini family, whose treachery had thrown him into the hands of the French.
On the conditions at Ilarran some light is thrown by the census partly preserved in Ashurbanipal's library.'
An interesting sidelight is thrown upon this period by the list of the Thalassocracies in the Chronicon of Eusebius p. 226,226, ed.
The patient is then seized with violent convulsions of a tetanic character; the arms are stretched out, respiration impeded, the muscles are rigid, the body is thrown into opisthotonos, i.e.
Since then (1904) Miss Florence Durham has shown that if the skins of young or embryonic mammals (rats, rabbits and guinea-pigs) be ground up and extracted in water, and the expressed juice be then incubated with solid tyrosin for twentyfour hours, with the addition of a very small amount of ferrous sulphate to act as an activator, a pigmentary substance is thrown down.
When the spores are thrown out some of these hymenial gonidia, as they are called, are carried with them.
When the number was raised from, two to four in 421 B.C. the office was thrown open to the plebeians.
In practice, however, it cannot be thrown down electrolytically with a dissimilar anode so as to win the metal, and certain difficulties are still met with in the analogous operation of plating by means of a similar anode.
The whole was thrown in several portions on to the hearth of a furnace previously heated to low redness and was stirred at intervals for three hours.
The process exhibited several disadvantages, the electrolyte had to be kept constant in composition lest either fluorine vapours should be evolved or sodium thrown down, and the raw materials had accordingly to be prepared in a pure state.
The solution of sodium aluminate, containing aluminium oxide and sodium oxide in the molecular proportion of 6 to 1, is next agitated for thirty-six hours with a small quantity of hydrated alumina previously obtained, which causes the liquor to decompose, and some 70% of the aluminium hydroxide to be thrown down.
In Caucasus the women made a wooden block to represent Haman, which, on being discovered by the men on their return to the synagogue, was thrown into the fire.
It soon appeared, however, that neither the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel nor the Church Missionary Society was willing to be absorbed; and it was urged by some that in a great comprehensive national Church, comprising persons of widely different views, more zeal was likely to be thrown into voluntary than into official enterprises.
In some churches, during the middle ages, an image of Christ was raised from the altar through a hole in the roof, through which a burning straw figure representing Satan was immediately thrown down.
For garden purposes loam should be rather unctuous or soapy to the touch when moderately dry, not too clinging nor adhesive, and should readily crumble when a compressed handful is thrown on the ground.
When weeds are thrown to the pigs, this fermentation becomes specially desirable to kill their seeds.
In the following spring a strong shoot will be thrown out, and to prevent its being blown out by the wind, must be fastened to a stake, or to the lower portion of the old stock which has been left for the purpose.
Next the roots from the lower portion of the ball are to be sought out and laid outwards in lines radiating from the stem, being distributed equally on all sides as nearly as this can be done; some fine and suitable good earth should be thrown amongst the roots as they are thus being placed, and worked in well up to the base of the ball.
A single crock may be used in some cases, and in others no crock at all, but a handful of half-decayed leaves or half-decayed dung thrown into the bottom of the pot.
This mode of potting does well for bulbs, such as hyacinths, which are either thrown away or planted out when the bloom is over.
Others, as the asters, spread rapidly; those possessing this habit should be taken up every second or third year, and, a nice patch being selected for replanting from the outer portions, the rest may be either thrown aside, or reserved for increase; the portion selected for replanting should be returned to its place, the ground having meanwhile been well broken up. Some plants are apt to decay at the base, frequently from exposure caused by the lifting process going on during their growth; these should be taken up annually in early autumn, the soil refreshed, and the plants returned to their places, care being taken to plant them sufficiently deep.
Cabbages that have headed may usually be preserved against injury by frost until the middle of next month, by simply pulling them up and packing them closely in a dry spot in the open field with the heads down and roots up. On approach of cold weather in December they should be covered up with leaves as high as the tops of the roots, or, if the soil is light, it may be thrown over them, if leaves are not convenient.
All the above described machines, however, have been thrown into the shade by the invention of a greatly improved type of influence machine first constructed by James Wimshurst about 1878.
It was not till Dumouriez had overrun all the Austrian Netherlands - in 1792,and had thrown open the passage of the Scheldt, lands.
Before being cooked they should be allowed to dry, and then thrown into boiling water.
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