- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Throw
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verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
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(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- The act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist. )
- usage: "the catcher made a good throw to second base"
- A single chance or instance.
- usage: "he couldn't afford $50 a throw"
- The maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam.
- synonyms: stroke, cam stroke
- Bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something.
- Casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly.
- usage: "he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice"
verb
- Propel through the air.
- usage: "throw a frisbee"
- Move violently, energetically, or carelessly.
- usage: "She threw herself forwards"
- Get rid of.
- usage: "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- Place or put with great energy.
- usage: "She threw the blanket around the child"; "thrust the money in the hands of the beggar"
- synonyms: thrust
- Convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture.
- usage: "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look"
- synonyms: give
- Cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.
- usage: "switch on the light"; "throw the lever"
- Put or send forth.
- usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
- To put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly.
- usage: "Jane threw dinner together"; "throw the car into reverse"
- Cause to be confused emotionally.
- synonyms: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate
- Utter with force; utter vehemently.
- usage: "hurl insults"; "throw accusations at someone"
- synonyms: hurl
- Organize or be responsible for.
- usage: "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course"
- Make on a potter's wheel.
- usage: "she threw a beautiful teapot"
- Cause to fall off.
- usage: "The horse threw its inexperienced rider"
- Throw (a die) out onto a flat surface.
- usage: "Throw a six"
- Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.
- usage: "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
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- (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
- (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
- (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
- (v.t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
- (n.) The distance which a missile is or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
- (v.t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
- (n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
- (v.t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
- (v.t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
- (v.t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
- (v.t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
- (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
- (n.) A stroke; a blow.
- (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
- (v.t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
- (v.t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
- (v.t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, 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.
- (v.t.) To fling, cast or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss or to bowl.
- (n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
- (v.t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
- (n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
- (v.i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
- (v.t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow or a downthrow.
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