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out-throw

out-throw verb: to throw outward.

Verb

out-throw (third-person singular simple present out-throws, present participle out-throwing, simple past out-threw, past participle out-thrown)

  1. To throw outward.
    • Engrossed in the rich, transparent beauty, pathos, and wisdom of Virgil, and the living rhetoric of Cicero's elaborate pleadings, as well as those other classic writers of antiquity, who, amidst outward barbarism, darkness, and dismayful ignorance, then brought to the student's lonely heart the...1862, S. N., “Martin Luther-The Reformation”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, volume 2, page 8
    • No man ever forgot his laugh—genial, hearty and out-thrown; and no friend who knew him well has failed to see the struggle to keep the mist back from the eyes when he was listening to or narrating a pathetic story .1871, N. S. Dodge, “Seasonable Words About Dickens”, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 6, page 80
  2. To surpass in throwing.
    • My whole life I had been forced together with him at every family gathering, and he had used every opportunity to out-throw me, outrun me, out-eat me.2012, Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads
    • They had the same thing—running races and I outran everybody and out-threw everybody but one fellow, and he had the same name I had, John Wilson, a big, blond-haired kid from up in Alexandria, which is nine miles from here.2015, Brent Kelley, The Negro Leagues Revisited, page 272

Noun

out-throw (plural out-throws)

  1. (paper recycling) Paper of a grade that is not within the acceptable specifications.
    • Out-throws include permitted prohibited materials. Allowable out-throws range from 0% to 10% , with most grades limiting out-throws to 1% or 2%.1991, Ken L. Patrick, Paper Recycling: Strategies, Economics, and Technology, page 67
    • Up to 2% prohibitive materials and 5% out-throws are allowed.1996, Tappi Journal - Volume 79, page 178

Examples of out-throw in a sentence

  • Thy heart, it is a diamond And noble rays out-throweth.1911, Heinrich Heine, John Payne, The Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine:
  • Out-throws include sorted white ledger paper, colored paper, coated and chemically treated paper, CPO, manila file folders, newspaper, and cardboard.1997, Debra L. Strong, Recycling in America, page 73:

Forms of out-throw

Verb
third-person singular presentout-throws
present participleout-throwing
pastout-threw
past participleout-thrown
Noun
pluralout-throws

Questions about out-throw

What does out-throw mean?
Out-throw means to throw outward.
How do you use out-throw in a sentence?
Thy heart, it is a diamond And noble rays out-throweth.
What part of speech is out-throw?
Out-throw can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of out-throw?
The past tense of out-throw is out-threw.

Words near out-throw in the dictionary

  1. out-Tarzans
  2. out-there
  3. out-there-ness
  4. out-thereness
  5. out-threw
  6. out-throw
  7. out-throwing
  8. out-thrown
  9. out-throws
  10. out-toeing
  11. out-top

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