different between throw vs skew

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: thr?, IPA^(key): /????/, [??????]
• (US) enPR: thr?, IPA^(key): /??o?/, [????o?]
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: throe

Etymology 1

From Middle English throwen, thrawen, from Old English þr?wan (“to turn, twist, curl, rack, torture, turn around”), from Proto-West Germanic *þr?an, from Proto-Germanic *þr?an? (“to twist, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“to rub, rub by twisting, twist, turn”). Cognate with Scots thraw (“to twist, turn, throw”), West Frisian triuwe (“to push”), Dutch draaien (“to turn”), Low German draien, dreien (“to turn (in a lathe)”), German drehen (“to turn”), Danish dreje (“to turn”), Swedish dreja (“to turn”), Albanian dredh (“to turn, twist, tremble”), Bulgarian ??????????? (izt?rvávam, “to drop”).

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

   Synonyms: bowl, bung, buzz, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, direct, fire, fling, flip, heave, hurl, launch, lob, pitch, project, propel, send, shoot, shy, sling, toss, whang

2. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.

   Synonyms: eject, throw off

3. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.

   Synonyms: displace, relocate

4. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
5. (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
6. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

7. (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
   • 2012, August 1. Peter Walker and Haroon Siddique in Guardian Unlimited, Eight Olympic badminton players disqualified for 'throwing games'

     Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.

   Synonym: take a dive

8. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
9. (figuratively) To send desperately.
10. (transitive) To imprison.
    • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

      The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.

    • 1993, Margaret McKee, Fred Chisenhall, Beale black & blue: life and music on black America's main street - Page 30

      The standard method of dealing with an addict was to arrest him, throw him into a cell, and leave him until the agonizing pangs of withdrawal were over.

11. To organize an event, especially a party.
    • 1979, Working Mother, July 1979, Page 72[1]

      Should you be interested, for whatever reason, it will tell you how to throw a party for your 40-year-old husband or your 100-year-old great-grandmother. It also describes games that can be played at various kinds of parties […]

12. (transitive, intransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
    • 1844, Samuel Laing translating Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla

      The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.

13. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
    • 1844, Samuel Laing translating Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla

      The kings came to the agreement between themselves that they would cast lots by the dice to determine who should have this property, and that he who threw the highest should have the district. The Swedish king threw two sixes, and said King Olaf need scarcely throw.

14. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
15. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.
16. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.
17. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
    • 1991, Janet L. Davies, Ellen Hastings Janosik, Mental health and psychiatric nursing: a caring approach

      Bill runs into the kitchen and tells Dad that Erik is throwing a tantrum. He tells Bill to go back and watch his program and to ignore his brother. Fifteen minutes later, Erik is still screaming […]

    • 1996, New York Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 32, 19 Aug 1996; Entertaining Mrs Stone

      In 1975, pregnant with the second of her three children, she threw a hissy fit to get on a trip to Boston for elected officials.

18. (transitive) To project or send forth.
19. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
20. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) 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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tomlinson to this entry?)

21. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
    • 2009, Michael T. Lynch, Jr., It Ain't So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, page 63 ?ISBN

      I have a minor quibble with Gleason's decision to throw Lefty Williams in Game Eight with the Series in the balance.

22. (transitive) To install (a bridge).
    • 1860, Fredrika Bremer (trans. Mary Howitt), Life in the Old World, v. 1, p. 164.

      […] across the rapid smaragdus-green waters, pouring onward into the country, are thrown three bridges ...

23. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.

24. (American football) Synonym of pass
25. (transitive) (of a punch or boxing combination) to deliver
    • 1941, Newsweek, Volume 18, p.54, [2]

      ···not only did I not want to throw a punch at him, I wanted to give him a solid silver token of thanks···

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:throw

Derived terms

Translations

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. The flight of a thrown object.

2. The act of throwing something.
   • 2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming (volume 5, page 62)

     If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.

3. One's ability to throw.

4. A distance travelled; displacement.
   • 1947, James Jerome Gibson, Motion Picture Testing and Research (issue 7, page 49)

     The visibility of the screen image is affected by the length of throw of the projector, the type of projector, the intensity of the projector lamp, and the type of the screen.

5. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
6. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

Translations

Derived terms

• a stone's throw
• bike throw
• corner throw
• throw pillow
• throw-up

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[3]

Etymology 2

From Middle English throwe, alteration of thrawe, from Old English þr?wu (“labor pang, agony in childbirth or death”), akin to Old English þr?a (“affliction, pang”), þr?wan (“to suffer”). More at throe.

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

2. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
   • 1916, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association: Volume 49

     At the end of the normal gestation period the cow threw two calf mummies as large as cats.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from Old English þr?h, þr?g (“space of time, period, while”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Gothic ???????????????????????????? (þragjan, “to run”).

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
2. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:

     Downe himselfe he layd / Vpon the grassie ground, to sleepe a throw; / The cold earth was his couch, the hard steele his pillow.

Synonyms

• stound

Etymology 4

Noun

throw (plural throws)

1. Obsolete form of throe.
   • 1806, The Evangelical Magazine (page 441)

     […] when we behold the fixed eye, the pale lips, the convulsive throws of death distorting the countenance; […]

Anagrams

• -worth, Worth, whort, worth, wroth

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skju/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: SKU

Alternative forms

• skeugh

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English skeuen, skewe, skewen (“to run at an angle or obliquely; to escape”), from Old Northern French escuer [and other forms], variants of Old French eschuer, eschever, eschiver (“to escape, flee; to avoid”) (modern French esquiver (“to dodge (a blow), duck; to elude, evade; to slip away; to sidestep”)), from Frankish *skiuhan (“to dread; to avoid, shun”), from Proto-Germanic *skiuhijan? (“to frighten”). The English word is cognate with Danish skæv (“crooked, slanting; skew, wry”), Norwegian skjev (“crooked, lopsided; oblique, slanting; distorted”), Saterland Frisian skeeuw (“aslant, slanting; oblique; awry”), and is a doublet of eschew.

The adjective and adverb are probably derived from the verb and/or from askew, and the noun is derived from either the adjective or the verb.

Verb

skew (third-person singular simple present skews, present participle skewing, simple past and past participle skewed)

1. (transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.

   Antonym: unskew

   1. (statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
2. (transitive) To bias or distort in a particular direction.
3. (transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:throw

4. (intransitive) To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
5. (intransitive) To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
6. (intransitive) To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

skew (not generally comparable, comparative skewer or more skew, superlative skewest or most skew)

1. (not comparable) Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
2. (not comparable, geometry) Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
3. (comparable, statistics) Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

skew (comparative more skew, superlative most skew)

1. (rare) Askew, obliquely; awry.

Noun

skew (plural skews)

1. Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
2. An oblique or sideways movement.
3. A squint or sidelong glance.
4. A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
5. A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
6. A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
7. (electronics) A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
8. (statistics) A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.

Derived terms

• on the skew
• skewness

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English skeu, skew (“stone with a sloping surface forming the slope of a gable, offset of a buttress, etc.”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman eschu, escuwe, eskeu, or Old Northern French eschieu, eskieu, eskiu, from Old French escu, escut, eschif (“a shield”) (modern French écu), from Latin sc?tum (“a shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewH- (“to cover, protect”) or *skey- (“to cut, split”).

Noun

skew (plural skews)

1. (architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
2. (chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.
3. (architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• clock skew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skew lines on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skew (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skiu?/
• Rhymes: -iu?

Etymology 1

From an earlier form of Old Norse ský, from Proto-Germanic *skiwj?; doublet of sky.

Alternative forms

• skiw, skue, skyw, skewe, skwe, skiu, scue, schew

Noun

skew (plural skewes)

1. sky, air
2. (rare) cloud

References

• “skeu, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.

Etymology 2

From Old French escu, from Latin sc?tum.

Alternative forms

• scuwe, skyu, scheu, skyew, scu

Noun

skew (plural skewes)

1. A segment of carved stone to cover a gable with.

References

• “skeu, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-23.