English-Spanish translations for throw

  • arrojarMe pregunto si podría arrojar más luz sobre este asunto. I wonder if you could throw some light on this. Antes los mataría y los arrojaría al mar. He would kill them en masse and throw them into the sea. Ahora existe la necesidad de arrojar verdadera luz sobre todas estas respuestas. There is now a need to throw real light on all these replies.
  • lanzarPero Ucrania no se puede lanzar en brazos de un único aliado. Ukraine, however, cannot throw itself into the arms of one single ally. Sin embargo, tampoco queremos lanzar el bebé con el agua del baño. However, we do not want to throw out the baby with the bath water either. Lanzar piedras y causar desmanes no es hacer política, es cometer delitos. Throwing stones and causing damage is not politics but criminal behaviour.
  • tirarGastar tan tarde es tirar el dinero. To spend so late is to throw money away. No vamos a tirar el dinero por el desagüe. We are not going to throw money down the drain. No debemos tirar al bebé con el agua del baño. We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  • echarNo debemos echar dinero bueno al malo. We must not throw good money after bad. Invitamos a la troika a echar luz sobre este escándalo. We invite the troika to throw light on this scandal! Lo único que conseguiremos será echar por tierra las mejoras que tanto nos ha costado conseguir. We would be simply throwing away all those hard-won improvements.
  • lanzamientoAlguien incluso me iba haciendo señas para que recurriera a una especialidad olímpica - el lanzamiento de martillo - para callar la algarabía que armaban algunos colegas. Some of them even gestured to me to resort to an Olympic sport - gavel-throwing - in order to silence certain other Members who were making too much noise. En la cumbre tiene que haber acuerdo, o al menos debate, sobre el lanzamiento rápido de un salvavidas: tiene que producirse una mejora drástica del desarrollo de la investigación. At the summit there needs to be agreement, or at least debate, on throwing in a lifebelt fast: there has to be a dramatic improvement in the development of research.

Definition of throw

  • 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 by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel
  • To send to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing
  • To intentionally lose a game
  • To confuse or mislead
  • To send desperately
  • To imprison
  • To organize an event, especially a party
  • To roll (a die or dice
  • To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it
  • To discard
  • To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower
  • To show sudden emotion, especially anger
  • To project or send forth
  • To put on hastily; to spread carelessly
  • To twist two or more filaments of so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver
  • To select ; to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever
  • To install (a bridge
  • To twist or turn
  • The flight of a thrown object
  • The act of throwing something
  • One's ability to throw
  • A distance travelled; displacement
  • A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing
  • A violent effort. Chambers 1908--
  • Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe
  • The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows
  • To give birth to
  • A moment, time, occasion

Examples

  • throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider
  • throw the switch
  • If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception
  • The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match
  • The deliberate red herring threw me at first
  • Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle
  • The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail
  • a thrown nail
  • What a great throw by the quarterback!
  • With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow
  • The gambler staked everything on one throw of the dice
  • Hes got a girls throw
  • Hes always had a pretty decent throw
  • the throw of the piston
  • Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw

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