throwing - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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  • 1.2 Verb
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Translations
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  • 1.5 Anagrams

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• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɹoʊ.ɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹəʊ.ɪŋ/

throwing

1. present participle and gerund of throw

throwing (countable and uncountable, plural throwings)

1. The act by which something is thrown.
   • 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party:
     […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
2. The process of making ceramic ware on the potter's wheel

• axe throwing

• cock throwing

• flamethrowing

• nonthrowing

• shadow-throwing

• stone-throwing

• throwing ax

• throwing axe

• throwing knife

• throwing star

• throwing stick

• throwing stone

• throwing table

• throwing wheel

• ingrowth, right now, worthing, Worthing, Wrighton

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