n. 10. A crank.n. The length or lever-arm of a crank.n. In electricity, the angular movement or swing of the needle of a galvanometer, with incompletely damped motion, measured from the zero-point to the turning-point of its first excursion.To turn; twist; specifically, to form into threads by twisting two or more filaments together, or by twisting two or more singles together in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves: as, to throw silk: sometimes applied in a wide sense to the whole series of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.To shape on a potters' wheel.To fashion by turning on a lathe; turn.To cast; heave; pitch; toss; fling: literally or figuratively: as, to throw a stone at a bird.To cast with sudden force or violence: impel violently; hurl; dash: as, the shock threw the wall down.To fling; floor; give a fall to, as in wrestling; unhorse, as in justing.To unseat and bring to the ground.To cast; shed.To spread or put on carelessly or hurriedly: as, to throw a shawl over one's shoulders.To advance or place quickly, as by some rapid movement.To bring forth; produce, as young; bear; cast: said especially of rabbits.To make a cast with, as dice; play with, as dice; make (a cast of dice).In card-playing, to lay upon the table; play, as a card.To turn; direct; cast: as, to throw one's eyes to the ground.To sell, as a race or game; allow another to win unnecessarily or in accordance with previous agreement.To part with without compensation; give or spend recklessly; squander; lose by negligence or folly; waste.To reject; refuse; lose by indifference or neglect: as, to throw away a good offer.To reject; refuse.To cast back, as a slur or an insinuation.To bring from an erect or exalted to a prostrate position or condition; hence, to overturn; subvert; demolish; destroy.To put in or deposit along with another or others: as, he has thrown in his fortune with yours.To interpolate: as, he threw in a word now and then.To add without reckoning, or as if to complete or effect a bargain or sale: as, I will throw in this book if you buy the lot.To discard; dismiss: as, to throw off an acquaintance or a dependent.To do or say in a rapid offhand manner: as, to throw off a poem.To give free or unrestricted access to; remove all barriers, obstacles, or restrictions from: as, the appointment was thrown open to public competition.To cause to project, or to become prominent; build out: as, to throw out a pier or landing-stage, or a wing of a building.To emit: as, that lamp throws out a bright light.To give utterance to; insinuate: as, to throwout a hint.To put off the right track; confuse; embarrass: as, interruption throws one out.To leave behind: distance: as, a horse thrown completely out of the race.To reject; exclude: as, the bill was thrown out on the second reading.In printing, to reject or throw aside, as printed sheets that are imperfect.In base-ball, to put out, as a base-runner, by a ball fielded to one of the players on or near a base.In cricket, to put out (a batsman) when he is out of his ground by a fielder hitting the wicket.To erect or build rapidly; construct: as, to throw up a scaffolding.To give up; resign; abandon: as, to throw up an appointment.To eject or discharge from the stomach; vomit.To cast or fling: as, he throws well at base-ball, but catches badly.To cast dice.To fall; be cast down.n. The act of throwing, flinging, or hurling; a cast, either from the hand or from an engine; a fling.n. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; hence, risk; venture.n. In angling, the cast of a line.n. A thrust; a stroke; a blow.n. The distance which a missile may be thrown by the hand.n. In steam-engines, the extreme movement of a slide-valve, or of a crank or an eccentric, measured on a straight line passing through the center of motion.n. In geology and mining, a fault or dislocation of the strata; a leap. Of late the term throw has been more generally used to denote the amount of vertical displacement caused by a leap or fault. See the quotations.n. An implement or a machine for giving to anything a rapid rotary motion, especially in the industrial arts, as a potters' wheel, a turners' lathe.n. In mathematics, a complexus of four elements of the same elementary figure, regard being had to their linear order, as four points on a line, four lines of a plane pencil, and the like. Two projective throws are said to be equal.An obsolete spelling of throe.n. A space of time; a moment; a while.