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toss
has definitions from the fields of sport,games
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[ verb ] throw or toss with a light motion
Examples "flip me the beachball" "toss me newspaper" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)In deadly earnest , the besiegers methodically stripped away portions of the roof and tossed lighted rags inside , only to have most stamped_out by the women as_soon_as they hit the floor . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)A man could be tossed outside the dimension of time by a stray bullet these days . |
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[ verb ] lightly throw to see which side comes up, as of coins
Synonyms Examples "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" Used in print (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)When three dice are tossed repeatedly , what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1 , or 2 , or 3 ) ? If three dice are tossed , a trial is one toss of one die and the experiment is composed of three trials . Or , what amounts to the same thing , if one die is tossed three times , each toss is a trial , and the three tosses form the experiment . Mathematically , we shall not distinguish the experiment of three dice tossed once from that of one die tossed three times . Mathematically , we shall not distinguish the experiment of three dice tossed once from that of one die tossed three times . |
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[ verb ] throw carelessly
Synonyms Examples "chuck the ball" Used in print (The Detroit News,...)Simply out of bloodlust , their murderers dismembered the bodies and tossed the remains into the river . (National Review, xi: 26...)New self-deceiving rags are hurriedly tossed on the too-naked bones . |
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[ verb ] move or stir about violently
Synonyms thrash_about thresh thrash convulse slash thresh_about jactitate Examples "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" Related terms |
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[ verb ] beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
Synonyms Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)For many nights afterward , the idea of her having been so close to me in_that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires , would cause me to lie_awake in shame , tossing with irresolution , longing to fall into a deep sleep . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)This could be told chiefly from a sort of head tossing and prancing , a horse like balkiness of demeanor . |
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[ noun ] (games) the act of flipping a coin
Synonyms Used in print (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)If three dice are tossed , a trial is one toss of one die and the experiment is composed of three trials . Or , what amounts to the same thing , if one die is tossed three times , each toss is a trial , and the three tosses form the experiment . Or , what amounts to the same thing , if one die is tossed three times , each toss is a trial , and the three tosses form the experiment . |
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[ noun ] (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
Examples "the pass was fumbled" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Lumpe worked a walk as the first batter to face Hyde and romped around as Siebern blasted Hyde 's next toss 415 feet over the scoreboard in right center . (The Dallas Morning News,...)Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU , and A+M , with a 38 - point bulge against Texas_Tech ran_up its biggest total loop play since 1950 . |
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[ verb ] throw or cast away
Examples "Put away your worries" Used in print (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)Once_more he lifted Jess 's gun from its holster , only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin . |
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