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Definition: TO THROW OUT |
TO THROW OUT1. (a) To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel. ``The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile.'' --Swift. ``The bill was thrown out.'' --Swift. (b) To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. ``She throws out thrilling shrieks.'' --Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind. --Addison. (d) To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment. (e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. (f) To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator. |
Crosswords: TO THROW OUT |
| English words defined with "TO THROW OUT": Bub ♦ discard, Disemploy, Disoccident, Disorb, Disrank ♦ Jaculate ♦ Outthrow ♦ Parbreak, Pluff ♦ Spet ♦ To cast forth, To cast out ♦ Unchariot, Ungear ♦ Yerk. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO THROW OUT": Consternation ♦ Disemploy, Disoccident ♦ Ecbole, Ecboline ♦ trite. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What, I'm supposed to throw out perfectly good flowers 'cause they came from a creep? (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Many times in the past Cuban people have risen to throw out tyrants who destroyed their liberty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "TO THROW OUT": to throw out of gear. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO THROW OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | udkoble (bring out of mesh, declutch, disconnect, disengage, isolation, release, to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear, uncouple), stille i frigear (declutch, disconnect, disengage, release, to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear, uncouple), frakoble (declutch, disconnect, disengage, release, to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear, uncouple). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | ontkoppelen (uncouple). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | désengrener (to throw out of gear), désembrayer (to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear), désaccoupler (to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear), dégager (to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear), déclencher (to disengage the clutch, to open, to throw out of gear, to trip), débrayer (to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | hinauswerfen (cast out, chuck out, eject, kick out, pitch out, put off, throw out, toss out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | βγάζω έξω από το γρανάζι (to throw out of gear), βγάζω οδοντωτό τροχό από τη θέση του (to throw out of gear), αποσυμπλέκω (declutch, disconnect, disengage, release, to disengage the clutch, to throw out of gear, uncouple). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | odavet (to throw off), megzavar (bedazzle, dash, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, perplex, pervert, queer, to addle, to amaze, to baffle, to bowl over, to clog, to confound, to disarray, to disconcert, to dislocate, to dismay, to disorientate, to distract, to fluster, to muddy, to perplex, to perturb, to put off, to stultify, to unsettle, to wake, unsettle), leszavaz (to kill, to negative, to poll, vote down). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | disinserire (to throw out of gear), disinnestare (declutch, disconnect, disengage), disingranare (bring out of mesh, disengage, to throw out of gear). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 投'出す (to abandon, to sacrifice, to throw down), "り出す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to give up, to neglect), 'み出す (to pick out), 摘まみ出す (to pick out). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | な' す (to abandon, to sacrifice, to throw down), つまみ す (to pick out), ほうり す (to abandon, to expel, to fire, to give up, to neglect). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay owthray outay desengranar (bring out of mesh, disengage, to throw out of gear), desembragar (declutch, disengage). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | eicio, eicio, eiectum. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-o-o-o-r-t-t-t-u-w" | |
-1 letter: toothwort. | |
-2 letters: outthrow. | |
-3 letters: outroot, outtrot. | |
-4 letters: outrow, toroth, trowth. | |
-5 letters: ortho, routh, rowth, thoro, throw, tooth, torot, troth, trout, truth, tutor, whort, worth, wroth. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      54 48 52 4F 57      4F 55 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001111 01010111 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   T H R O W   O U T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0054 0048 0052 004F 0057      004F 0055 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449254425249572495554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Speeches | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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