throwing
/ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- To eject or cause to fall off.
- To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (said of animals) To give birth to.
- The act by which something is thrown.
- The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel
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