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# throw

«throw» in Mova's school dictionary: **To send something through the air with your arm: "Throw…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (throw, throws, threw, thrown, throwing); noun (a throw, throws)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To send something through the air with your arm: "Throw the ball." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#m1)

2) To put something somewhere quickly or carelessly: "She threw her coat on the bed." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#m2)

3) To move your body suddenly: "He threw himself on the sofa." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#m3)

4) To confuse: "The question threw me." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#m4)

5) As a noun, an act of throwing, or a turn at throwing: "a good throw". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE, throwing and catching are skills; in science, a thrown ball follows a curved path because of gravity. In everyday life: throw away rubbish; don't throw things at people or animals. Phrases: throw away, throw out, throw up (be sick), throw a party, throw a tantrum.

### examples

- Throw the ball to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x1)
- He threw the stone into the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x2)
- Throw your rubbish in the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x3)
- Don't throw sand at people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x4)
- She threw a party for her birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x5)
- I felt sick and threw up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x6)
- That was a great throw! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x7)
- The dice was thrown three times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x8)
- ‘Throw out the stones,’ said Maie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/#x9)

### note

Past: "threw" (sounds like "through"); past participle "thrown" (sounds like "throne"). In maths, "throw a die" means roll it: each number is equally likely.

### In the corpora

- [When the sea gets too warm, coral throws out its algae and turns white, which is called bleaching.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/132-finding-nemo-real-clownfish-and-anemones/15/)
- [Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/15/)
- [Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/9/)
- [Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/234-animal-minds-the-octopus-escape-artist-and-puzzle-solver/16/)
- [Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «throw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.