throw
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 →
2) To put something somewhere quickly or carelessly: "She threw her coat on the bed." tree →
3) To move your body suddenly: "He threw himself on the sofa." tree →
4) To confuse: "The question threw me." tree →
5) As a noun, an act of throwing, or a turn at throwing: "a good throw". tree →
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 →
- He threw the stone into the lake. tree →
- Throw your rubbish in the bin. tree →
- Don't throw sand at people. tree →
- She threw a party for her birthday. tree →
- I felt sick and threw up. tree →
- That was a great throw! tree →
- The dice was thrown three times. tree →
- ‘Throw out the stones,’ said Maie. tree →
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.
- Gulls have many calls; the loud long call with the head thrown back claims a territory.
- Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps.
- Gloomy octopuses in Australia were filmed throwing silt and shells with a jet of water, sometimes at each other.
- Storks hardly have a voice; they greet each other by throwing their heads back and clattering their bills like a wooden toy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «throw» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.