throw

To send something through the air by moving your hand or using a machine.

• Throw me the ball.
• She threw a stone into the river.
• Can you throw it over the fence?

How to use it: throw something to someone (He threw the ball to his brother.); throw something at someone/something (She threw a snowball at the wall.); throw someone something (Throw me the rope.)

Similar words: toss, hurl

Common phrases: throw a ball, throw to someone, throw a stone

To deliberately lose a game or competition.

• He agreed to throw the match.
• The boxer denied throwing the fight.
• Did someone pay them to throw the game?

Similar words: lose deliberately

Common phrases: throw a match, throw a game, throw the fight

To roll dice and get a particular number.

• You need to throw a six.
• She threw two ones and lost her turn.
• If I throw a five, I win.

Similar words: roll

Common phrases: throw a six, throw two sixes, throw a double

An act of sending something through the air with your hand.

• That was a good throw.
• Her final throw reached sixty metres.
• His throws became more accurate with practice.

Similar words: toss

Common phrases: a long throw, make a throw, a good throw

One attempt, event, or item, especially when saying how much each costs.

• The tickets cost twenty pounds a throw.
• At fifty dollars a throw, those meals are expensive.
• He paid five pounds a throw for three attempts.

Similar words: go, attempt

Common phrases: a throw, ten pounds a throw, one more throw

The distance that a moving part of a machine travels.

• The piston has a short throw.
• We measured the throw of the lever.
• A longer throw changes how the mechanism works.

Similar words: travel, displacement

Common phrases: piston throw, crank throw, throw of something