{ "Three Forks":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ "locality in southwestern Montana where the Missouri River is formed by the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and Madison rivers population 1203":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130001", "type":[ "geographical name" ] }, "Three Gorges Dam":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ "dam in the Chang (Yangtze) River west of Yichang in Hubei province, China":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103446", "type":[ "geographical name" ] }, "Throttlebottom":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an innocuously inept and futile person in public office":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "after Alexander Throttlebottom , character in the musical comedy Of Thee I Sing (1931) by George S. Kaufman born 1899 & Morris Ryskind born 1895 American playwrights":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050731", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thraldom":{ "antonyms":[ "freeman" ], "definitions":{ ": a person in moral or mental servitude":[], ": a state of complete absorption":[ "\u2014 usually used with in \u2026 mountains could hold me in thrall with a subtle attraction of their own \u2026 \u2014 Elyne Mitchell" ], ": a state of servitude or submission":[ "\u2014 usually used with in in thrall to his emotions" ], ": enthrall , enslave":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "I'm not your thrall , so you'll have to pick up after yourself.", "a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But LaPierre just kept spending, held in thrall to the demands of his lieutenants. \u2014 Jake Bittle, The New Republic , 9 June 2022", "Already, Belarus has effectively become a Russian republic, with its leader Alexander Lukashenko firmly in Putin's thrall . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022", "The thrall of commerce also shapes their most intimate interactions. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 11 Dec. 2021", "Or a whole chunk of Asia will fall back into thrall to the West's global rivals. \u2014 Melik Kaylan, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021", "The Buffalo shooter was in thrall to the theory, as have been other racist and antisemitic killers. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 17 May 2022", "Essex Hemphill, James Baldwin, and Isaac Julien, and his \u0153uvre so far seems aesthetically and spiritually in thrall to Marlon Riggs. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022", "Yet Republicans, still in thrall to Trump \u2013 many of whom have signed on to his corrosive lies about election fraud to win the favor of his supporters \u2013 appear on course to capture the House, and perhaps the Senate, in midterm elections in the fall. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022", "Other than that detail, Pence, like the rest of the Republican Party, remains in thrall to Trump. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 1 Apr. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thral , from Old English thr\u00e6l , from Old Norse thr\u00e6ll":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u022fl" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bondman", "bondsman", "chattel", "slave" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205954", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "thrall":{ "antonyms":[ "freeman" ], "definitions":{ ": a person in moral or mental servitude":[], ": a state of complete absorption":[ "\u2014 usually used with in \u2026 mountains could hold me in thrall with a subtle attraction of their own \u2026 \u2014 Elyne Mitchell" ], ": a state of servitude or submission":[ "\u2014 usually used with in in thrall to his emotions" ], ": enthrall , enslave":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "I'm not your thrall , so you'll have to pick up after yourself.", "a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But LaPierre just kept spending, held in thrall to the demands of his lieutenants. \u2014 Jake Bittle, The New Republic , 9 June 2022", "Already, Belarus has effectively become a Russian republic, with its leader Alexander Lukashenko firmly in Putin's thrall . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022", "The thrall of commerce also shapes their most intimate interactions. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 11 Dec. 2021", "Or a whole chunk of Asia will fall back into thrall to the West's global rivals. \u2014 Melik Kaylan, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021", "The Buffalo shooter was in thrall to the theory, as have been other racist and antisemitic killers. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 17 May 2022", "Essex Hemphill, James Baldwin, and Isaac Julien, and his \u0153uvre so far seems aesthetically and spiritually in thrall to Marlon Riggs. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022", "Yet Republicans, still in thrall to Trump \u2013 many of whom have signed on to his corrosive lies about election fraud to win the favor of his supporters \u2013 appear on course to capture the House, and perhaps the Senate, in midterm elections in the fall. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022", "Other than that detail, Pence, like the rest of the Republican Party, remains in thrall to Trump. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 1 Apr. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thral , from Old English thr\u00e6l , from Old Norse thr\u00e6ll":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u022fl" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bondman", "bondsman", "chattel", "slave" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195217", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "thralldom":{ "antonyms":[ "freeman" ], "definitions":{ ": a person in moral or mental servitude":[], ": a state of complete absorption":[ "\u2014 usually used with in \u2026 mountains could hold me in thrall with a subtle attraction of their own \u2026 \u2014 Elyne Mitchell" ], ": a state of servitude or submission":[ "\u2014 usually used with in in thrall to his emotions" ], ": enthrall , enslave":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "I'm not your thrall , so you'll have to pick up after yourself.", "a people who still bear the scars of having been in thrall for so many years", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But LaPierre just kept spending, held in thrall to the demands of his lieutenants. \u2014 Jake Bittle, The New Republic , 9 June 2022", "Already, Belarus has effectively become a Russian republic, with its leader Alexander Lukashenko firmly in Putin's thrall . \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 22 Feb. 2022", "The thrall of commerce also shapes their most intimate interactions. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 11 Dec. 2021", "Or a whole chunk of Asia will fall back into thrall to the West's global rivals. \u2014 Melik Kaylan, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021", "The Buffalo shooter was in thrall to the theory, as have been other racist and antisemitic killers. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 17 May 2022", "Essex Hemphill, James Baldwin, and Isaac Julien, and his \u0153uvre so far seems aesthetically and spiritually in thrall to Marlon Riggs. \u2014 Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2022", "Yet Republicans, still in thrall to Trump \u2013 many of whom have signed on to his corrosive lies about election fraud to win the favor of his supporters \u2013 appear on course to capture the House, and perhaps the Senate, in midterm elections in the fall. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 12 Apr. 2022", "Other than that detail, Pence, like the rest of the Republican Party, remains in thrall to Trump. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 1 Apr. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thral , from Old English thr\u00e6l , from Old Norse thr\u00e6ll":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u022fl" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bondman", "bondsman", "chattel", "slave" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073228", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "thrash":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an act of thrashing":[], ": rock music (such as heavy metal or punk rock) that is extremely fast and loud":[], ": thresh sense 1":[], ": to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog":[], ": to deal blows or strokes like one using a flail or whip":[], ": to defeat decisively or severely":[ "thrashed the visiting team" ], ": to go over again and again":[ "thrash the matter over inconclusively" ], ": to hammer out : forge":[ "thrash out a plan" ], ": to move or stir about violently : toss about":[ "thrash in bed with a fever" ], ": to separate the seeds of from the husks and straw by beating : thresh sense 1":[], ": to swing, beat, or strike in the manner of a rapidly moving flail":[ "thrashing his arms" ] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "He thrashed me with his belt.", "The team thrashed them last week.", "Something was thrashing wildly in the water.", "She thrashed around in her sleep.", "Noun", "The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Was that like for you to be thrashed around or thrash yourself around in that way", "The two parties signaled a willingness to thrash out the details of a funding strategy for the pipeline in coming days. \u2014 Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 May 2022", "Metallica came out of\u2014helped invent\u2014 thrash metal: speed, intricacy, overload. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 1 Jan. 2022", "Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022", "Hoping to avoid that fate, the league set a 5 p.m. Eastern deadline on Tuesday to thrash out an agreement. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 1 Mar. 2022", "With more money to buy and sell highly skilled players, teams at the top of the league can more reliably thrash their underfunded competitors who can\u2019t afford to stack their roster. \u2014 Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics , 22 Mar. 2022", "The venue\u2019s roster of upcoming concerts includes a variety of hip-hop, folk-punk, death metal and thrash bands. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 4 Feb. 2022", "But even as the two sides potentially prepare to thrash out everything from U.S. sanctions to Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment, at least one key issue has been left off the nuclear negotiating table: the fate of four U.S. citizens being held in Iran. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Not only did the band founded in 1984 by Max and Iggor Cavalera raise the profile of Brazil, where the brothers were born, but those albums continue to influence thrash and death metal. \u2014 Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022", "Slayer\u2019s Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman Scarier and more brutal than the rest of thrash \u2019s Big Four put together. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 30 Jan. 2022", "Initially scheduled for a 2020 run, this tour pairs with local thrash greats Sacred Reich Brazilian metal legends Sepultura, Crowbar and Art Of Shock. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 Apr. 2022", "These longtime veterans of the local metal scene describe their sound as Arizona stoner thrash . \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 Apr. 2022", "That is when thrash -metal pioneers Metallica lost an award\u2014the category now called best metal performance\u2014to Jethro Tull, a 1970s act whose music incorporates the flute. \u2014 Neil Shah, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2022", "The random thrashiest of thrash metal on intercity buses. \u2014 Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022", "Midnight, from the Cleveland streets Harvey Pekar once roamed, is still the one-man black- thrash game to beat on this side of the Earth or anywhere else. \u2014 Andy O'connor, SPIN , 15 Mar. 2022", "Kirk Hammett used to be in Exodus (another thrash metal band). \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1568, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 4":"Verb", "1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "alteration of thresh":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrash" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for thrash Verb swing , wave , flourish , brandish , thrash mean to wield or cause to move to and fro or up and down. swing implies regular or uniform movement. swing the rope back and forth wave usually implies smooth or continuous motion. waving the flag flourish suggests vigorous, ostentatious, graceful movement. flourished the winning lottery ticket brandish implies threatening or menacing motion. brandishing a knife thrash suggests vigorous, abrupt, violent movement. an infant thrashing his arms about", "synonyms":[ "annihilate", "blow away", "bomb", "bury", "clobber", "cream", "drub", "dust", "flatten", "paste", "rout", "shellac", "skin", "skunk", "smoke", "smother", "snow under", "trim", "tromp", "trounce", "wallop", "wax", "whip", "whomp", "whop", "whap", "whup" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235401", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thread":{ "antonyms":[ "interlace", "intersperse", "interweave", "lace", "salt", "weave", "wreathe" ], "definitions":{ ": a continuing element":[ "a thread of melancholy marked all his writing" ], ": a filament, a group of filaments twisted together, or a filamentous length formed by spinning and twisting short textile fibers into a continuous strand":[], ": a line of reasoning or train of thought that connects the parts in a sequence (as of ideas or events)":[ "lost the thread of the story" ], ": a piece of thread":[], ": a projecting helical rib (as in a fitting or on a pipe) by which parts can be screwed together : screw thread":[], ": a series of electronic messages (as on a message board or social media website) following a single topic or in response to a single message":[], ": a slender stream (as of water)":[], ": a tenuous or feeble support":[ "hung on by a thread" ], ": any of various natural filaments":[ "the threads of a spiderweb" ], ": clothing":[], ": something continuous or drawn out: such as":[], ": to arrange a thread, yarn, or lead-in piece in working position for use in (a machine)":[], ": to form a screw thread on or in":[], ": to form a thread":[], ": to interweave with or as if with threads : intersperse":[ "dark hair threaded with silver" ], ": to pass (something, such as a tape, line, or film) into or through something":[ "threaded a fresh roll of film into the camera" ], ": to pass a thread through the eye of (a needle)":[], ": to pass something through in the manner of a thread":[ "thread a pipe with wire" ], ": to put together on or as if on a thread : string":[ "thread beads" ], ": weave sense 2":[ "the car threaded through traffic" ] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "A thread was hanging from the hem of her coat.", "the unwary bug was snared in the sticky threads of the spider's web", "Verb", "She threaded her shoelace through the holes.", "thread film through a camera", "They had to thread their way through the crowd.", "Waiters threaded through the crowd.", "a river that threads through narrow valleys", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The set, from Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko, was the starting point for designer Maria Grazia Chiuri who returned this season to the atelier\u2019s needle-and- thread . \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 4 July 2022", "Kiki has spoken out against the trend in multiple TikTok videos and in a viral Twitter thread . \u2014 Ben Goggin, NBC News , 30 June 2022", "Fellow former Trump White House aide defends Hutchinson's character and testimony Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in the Trump White House who worked alongside Hutchinson, defended her character and testimony in a Twitter thread . \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022", "As highlighted in a Twitter thread by trademark attorney Josh Gerben, OSU first applied for the trademark in August 2019. \u2014 Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022", "Davis announced the move in a Sunday Twitter thread , putting to rest any concerns that the Punks\u2019 future would follow a similar path to the Bored Ape Yacht Club. \u2014 Fortune , 19 June 2022", "Chest tubes had to be inserted to drain internal bleeding; bowels had to be carefully resected by doctors working with needle and thread . \u2014 Phil Klay, The New Yorker , 11 June 2022", "In a Twitter thread posted two days after the May 24 massacre, the anonymous account, @mycancerjourne3, wrote that a representative of Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, offered to pay the grieving family to publicly oppose restrictive firearms policies. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022", "On Wednesday, the Onion\u2018s homepage featured all the past stories \u2014 nearly identical but for the datelines that mark the site of the carnage and photos that accompany them \u2014 and linked all the prior pieces in a long Twitter thread . \u2014 Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Persistent chemicals like the pesticide DDT can thread through the bodies of animals long after they are banned. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022", "As the locations industry evolves rapidly, several cutting-edge concerns thread the proposals. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 10 May 2022", "From cross-court skip passes, to behind-the-back dimes, Williams can thread the needle from the post, but against the Longhorns, the All-Big Ten third-teamer concentrated on exploiting mismatches and putting the ball in the hoop. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022", "The particulars of non-binary identity and bisexuality in a historical era are a delicate needle to thread , but Sebastian never disappoints. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022", "Cars must carefully thread the needle under the turnpike overpass with a slight elevation change. \u2014 USA Today , 6 May 2022", "Finding a way to thread the needle between competitive balance while avoiding legal exposure is the next dance for the elites. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 17 May 2022", "Khosrowshahi is trying to thread a needle here: bringing a badass spin to financial discipline without inviting back the most aggressive parts of Uber\u2019s culture. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 9 May 2022", "Still, some hope that the Fed will be able to thread the proverbial needle and engineer a soft landing. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 5 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thred , from Old English thr\u01e3d ; akin to Old High German dr\u0101t wire, Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn \u2014 more at throw entry 1":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bristle", "fiber", "filament", "hair" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055236", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "threadbare":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": barely adequate because of cheapness or shabbiness":[ "a threadbare production" ], ": exhausted of interest or freshness":[], ": having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby":[ "threadbare clothes" ], ": wearing threadbare clothing : very poor":[ "took in threadbare relatives", "\u2014 Russell Baker" ] }, "examples":[ "bought a threadbare couch at a garage sale", "a novel filled with nothing but threadbare clich\u00e9s", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The nation\u2019s health care system is so threadbare that Haitians regularly die of easily treatable ailments like diarrhea, and public hospitals often have to charge patients for basics like syringes and gloves. \u2014 Catherine Porter, New York Times , 22 Apr. 2020", "There, threadbare health care services, the impossibility of social distancing in packed slum communities, and an absence of economic safety nets are incubating a human tragedy of potentially cataclysmic scale. \u2014 Paul Salopek, National Geographic , 6 Apr. 2020", "And proximity to both nature and death can sometimes draw us closer to it, can thin the veil into something threadbare and shimmering. \u2014 Mary Pembleton, New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020", "After the unexpected gift of Lamb, the second day was about the need to stock a threadbare defense. \u2014 David Moore, Dallas News , 25 Apr. 2020", "Inside a tent encampment in Sicily, an immigrant laborer ties a threadbare piece of cloth over his face to protect himself from the virus. \u2014 David Kortava, The New Yorker , 20 Apr. 2020", "Coronavirus response is currently a threadbare patchwork of local, state, and national activity, but that may change as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc. \u2014 David Karpf, Wired , 10 Apr. 2020", "The Browns are in an excellent position to fortify their offensive line after leaving it glaringly threadbare in 2019. \u2014 Scott Patsko, cleveland , 8 Apr. 2020", "Economic inequality is exacerbated by racial injustice, both held in place by a threadbare social-safety net. \u2014 Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred-\u02ccber" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for threadbare trite , hackneyed , stereotyped , threadbare mean lacking the freshness that evokes attention or interest. trite applies to a once effective phrase or idea spoiled from long familiarity. \"you win some, you lose some\" is a trite expression hackneyed stresses being worn out by overuse so as to become dull and meaningless. all of the metaphors and images in the poem are hackneyed stereotyped implies falling invariably into the same pattern or form. views of minorities that are stereotyped and out-of-date threadbare applies to what has been used until its possibilities of interest have been totally exhausted. a mystery novel with a threadbare plot", "synonyms":[ "beat-up", "bombed-out", "dilapidated", "dog-eared", "down-at-the-heels", "down-at-heel", "down-at-the-heel", "down-at-heels", "dumpy", "grungy", "mangy", "mean", "miserable", "moth-eaten", "neglected", "ratty", "run-down", "scrubby", "scruffy", "seedy", "shabby", "sleazy", "tacky", "tatterdemalion", "tatty", "timeworn", "tumbledown" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-164434", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "threads":{ "antonyms":[ "interlace", "intersperse", "interweave", "lace", "salt", "weave", "wreathe" ], "definitions":{ ": a continuing element":[ "a thread of melancholy marked all his writing" ], ": a filament, a group of filaments twisted together, or a filamentous length formed by spinning and twisting short textile fibers into a continuous strand":[], ": a line of reasoning or train of thought that connects the parts in a sequence (as of ideas or events)":[ "lost the thread of the story" ], ": a piece of thread":[], ": a projecting helical rib (as in a fitting or on a pipe) by which parts can be screwed together : screw thread":[], ": a series of electronic messages (as on a message board or social media website) following a single topic or in response to a single message":[], ": a slender stream (as of water)":[], ": a tenuous or feeble support":[ "hung on by a thread" ], ": any of various natural filaments":[ "the threads of a spiderweb" ], ": clothing":[], ": something continuous or drawn out: such as":[], ": to arrange a thread, yarn, or lead-in piece in working position for use in (a machine)":[], ": to form a screw thread on or in":[], ": to form a thread":[], ": to interweave with or as if with threads : intersperse":[ "dark hair threaded with silver" ], ": to pass (something, such as a tape, line, or film) into or through something":[ "threaded a fresh roll of film into the camera" ], ": to pass a thread through the eye of (a needle)":[], ": to pass something through in the manner of a thread":[ "thread a pipe with wire" ], ": to put together on or as if on a thread : string":[ "thread beads" ], ": weave sense 2":[ "the car threaded through traffic" ] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "A thread was hanging from the hem of her coat.", "the unwary bug was snared in the sticky threads of the spider's web", "Verb", "She threaded her shoelace through the holes.", "thread film through a camera", "They had to thread their way through the crowd.", "Waiters threaded through the crowd.", "a river that threads through narrow valleys", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The set, from Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko, was the starting point for designer Maria Grazia Chiuri who returned this season to the atelier\u2019s needle-and- thread . \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 4 July 2022", "Kiki has spoken out against the trend in multiple TikTok videos and in a viral Twitter thread . \u2014 Ben Goggin, NBC News , 30 June 2022", "Fellow former Trump White House aide defends Hutchinson's character and testimony Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in the Trump White House who worked alongside Hutchinson, defended her character and testimony in a Twitter thread . \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022", "As highlighted in a Twitter thread by trademark attorney Josh Gerben, OSU first applied for the trademark in August 2019. \u2014 Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022", "Davis announced the move in a Sunday Twitter thread , putting to rest any concerns that the Punks\u2019 future would follow a similar path to the Bored Ape Yacht Club. \u2014 Fortune , 19 June 2022", "Chest tubes had to be inserted to drain internal bleeding; bowels had to be carefully resected by doctors working with needle and thread . \u2014 Phil Klay, The New Yorker , 11 June 2022", "In a Twitter thread posted two days after the May 24 massacre, the anonymous account, @mycancerjourne3, wrote that a representative of Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, offered to pay the grieving family to publicly oppose restrictive firearms policies. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022", "On Wednesday, the Onion\u2018s homepage featured all the past stories \u2014 nearly identical but for the datelines that mark the site of the carnage and photos that accompany them \u2014 and linked all the prior pieces in a long Twitter thread . \u2014 Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Persistent chemicals like the pesticide DDT can thread through the bodies of animals long after they are banned. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022", "As the locations industry evolves rapidly, several cutting-edge concerns thread the proposals. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 10 May 2022", "From cross-court skip passes, to behind-the-back dimes, Williams can thread the needle from the post, but against the Longhorns, the All-Big Ten third-teamer concentrated on exploiting mismatches and putting the ball in the hoop. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022", "The particulars of non-binary identity and bisexuality in a historical era are a delicate needle to thread , but Sebastian never disappoints. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 9 June 2022", "Cars must carefully thread the needle under the turnpike overpass with a slight elevation change. \u2014 USA Today , 6 May 2022", "Finding a way to thread the needle between competitive balance while avoiding legal exposure is the next dance for the elites. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 17 May 2022", "Khosrowshahi is trying to thread a needle here: bringing a badass spin to financial discipline without inviting back the most aggressive parts of Uber\u2019s culture. \u2014 Lila Maclellan, Quartz , 9 May 2022", "Still, some hope that the Fed will be able to thread the proverbial needle and engineer a soft landing. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 5 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thred , from Old English thr\u01e3d ; akin to Old High German dr\u0101t wire, Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn \u2014 more at throw entry 1":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bristle", "fiber", "filament", "hair" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080131", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "threat":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage":[], ": an indication of something impending":[ "the sky held a threat of rain" ], ": one that threatens":[], ": threaten":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "He was willing to use violence and threats to get what he wanted.", "She ignored their threats and continued to do what she felt was right.", "a country under threat of civil war", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Politically speaking, Trump's actions were seen as a real threat to the survival of NATO and the Western allies. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022", "Turkey\u2019s reversal is a blow to President Vladimir Putin, who in justifying the invasion of his neighbor bitterly protested previous expansions of NATO \u2014 and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to join the alliance \u2014 as a threat to his country\u2019s security. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022", "Turkey in recent weeks has claimed that U.S. bases in Greece pose a threat to Turkish security and have accused the U.S. of using a decades-old beef between Athens and Ankara to bolster its own agenda. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 28 June 2022", "Although most species are harmless, some can pose a serious threat . \u2014 Cierra Britten, The Enquirer , 28 June 2022", "Turkey\u2019s reversal is a blow to President Vladimir V. Putin, who in justifying the invasion of his neighbor bitterly protested previous expansions of NATO \u2014 and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to join the alliance \u2014 as a threat to his country\u2019s security. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022", "Doing so would give SpaceX time to demonstrate the satellites don\u2019t pose a threat to orbital safety or radio interference. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 27 June 2022", "That act, though, was written long before climate change was identified as a threat . \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 27 June 2022", "Indeed, the American Psychological Association recognizes climate change as a growing threat to mental health. \u2014 Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF , 27 June 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thret coercion, threat, from Old English thr\u0113at coercion; akin to Middle High German dr\u014dz annoyance, Latin trudere to push, thrust":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thret" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "danger", "hazard", "imminence", "menace", "peril", "pitfall", "risk", "trouble" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221937", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "threatening":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": expressing or suggesting a threat of harm, danger, etc.":[ "received a threatening message", "a threatening manner", "saw threatening clouds on the horizon" ], ": indicating or suggesting the approach of possible trouble or danger":[ "received a threatening message", "a threatening manner", "saw threatening clouds on the horizon" ] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Sheriff Javier Salazar said in March 2020 that the man had a screwdriver and approached the officer and deputy in a threatening manner. \u2014 Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News , 4 Mar. 2022", "The ban, until further notice, was announced on Super Bowl eve and came about after a U.S. inspector in Mexico received a threatening , verbal message, Mexico\u2019s Agriculture Department said, according to the Associated Press. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 17 Feb. 2022", "Until further notice, avocados will not be imported from Mexico to the U.S. after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threatening message on his official cellphone, Mexico\u2019s Agriculture Department said. \u2014 Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY , 16 Feb. 2022", "The United States has temporarily suspended avocado imports from Mexico after an American safety inspector allegedly received a threatening phone message. \u2014 Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com , 14 Feb. 2022", "When Thor spreads his wings in a threatening manner, our cats walk away. \u2014 Chris Kastner, cleveland , 16 Dec. 2021", "Melbourne police responded at 11 a.m. to the Florida Institute of Technology, where Alhaji M. Sow, 18, of Riverdale, had been seen wielding in a threatening manner, according to police. \u2014 Joshua Sharpe, ajc , 4 Dec. 2021", "Trevor Sterling, 34, is accused of pulling the firearm in a threatening manner on July 31 outside Moonshine Beach on Garnet Avenue. \u2014 City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Nov. 2021", "The glass of a passenger side window was broken completely and a threatening message was scraped into the side door. \u2014 Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com , 8 Aug. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1530, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thre-t\u1d4an-i\u014b", "\u02c8thret-ni\u014b" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "imminent", "impending", "looming", "pending" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010958", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb" ] }, "three-dimensional":{ "antonyms":[ "nonnatural", "nonrealistic", "unnatural", "unrealistic" ], "definitions":{ ": describing or being described in well-rounded completeness":[ "a three-dimensional analysis of multiple historical processes", "\u2014 L. L. Snyder" ], ": giving the illusion of depth or varying distances":[ "\u2014 used especially of an image or a pictorial representation on a two-dimensional medium when this illusion is enhanced by stereoscopic means" ], ": of, relating to, or having three dimensions":[], ": true to life : lifelike":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "-\u02c8men(t)-sh\u0259-n\u1d4al", "also -d\u012b-", "\u02c8thr\u0113-d\u0259-\u02c8mench-n\u0259l" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "lifelike", "living", "natural", "naturalistic", "naturalist", "near", "photo-realistic", "realistic" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170707", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "three-four":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": the rhythmic content per measure as indicated \u00b3/\u2084 in a musical composition consisting of three quarter notes or tones or their equivalent":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110137", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-fourths value clause":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an insurance policy provision limiting the insurer's liability to an amount not greater than three fourths of the cash value of the insured property but not exceeding the face of the policy often used to cause the insured to safeguard the property":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104214", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-gaited":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": trained to use the walk, trot, and canter":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1948, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8g\u0101-t\u0259d" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-085452", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "three-ring circus":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a circus with simultaneous performances in three rings":[], ": something wild, confusing, engrossing, or entertaining":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Feld shut down the three-ring circus in 2017 after a 146-year run. \u2014 Jay Handelman, USA TODAY , 18 May 2022", "But a general decline in newspaper readership and the recession of the 1990s, followed by a three-ring circus of corporate leadership at The Times, would be the undoing of the paper\u2019s Orange County edition. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Apr. 2022", "Stafford, after a career of haymakers with the dreadful Lions, was asked in one season to put the Rams in the NFL\u2019s version of a three-ring circus , aka Super Bowl 56. \u2014 Jay Paris, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022", "The only three-ring circus in North America rolls into Columbia County on June 29. \u2014 Joe Hotchkiss, ajc , 27 June 2021", "Sunday presented something of a three-ring circus setting at Augusta. \u2014 Doug Ferguson, Star Tribune , 4 Apr. 2021", "Mahomes and his three-ring circus are a bad matchup for a lot of defenses, even good ones. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 1 Oct. 2020", "Motherhood can be hard, especially now when moms are homeschooling their kids, acting as short-order cooks, and playing ring master of a seriously crazy three-ring circus \u2014all while trying to maintain their sanity. \u2014 Katie Bowlby, Country Living , 7 May 2020", "Co-owner Bobby Lee described it as a three-ring circus that happens to sell steaks. \u2014 Chris Quintana, USA TODAY , 14 Apr. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1902, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8ri\u014b-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "babel", "bedlam", "circus", "madhouse", "scrum" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061031", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-seeded mercury":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a weedy herb of the genus Acalypha (especially A. virginica of eastern North America)":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110927", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-spined stickleback":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) chiefly of fresh and brackish waters that typically has three dorsal spines":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The spring-fed lake, where Spanish explorers camped in 1776, is now home to natives like the three-spined stickleback fish, western pond turtles, freshwater mussels and chorus frogs that sing in the evening. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 7 Jan. 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "1769, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8sp\u012bn(d)-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112113", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-way switch":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an electric switch having three terminals used to control a circuit from two different points":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130125", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-wheeler":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of various vehicles having three wheels":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02cc(h)w\u0113-l\u0259r" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1886, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-040106" }, "three-wire generator":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a direct-current generator with both slip rings and a commutator used for supplying current to a direct-current three-wire system whose neutral wire is connected to the center point of a high-reactance winding connected across the slip rings and whose two main conductors are connected to the commutator brushes":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033914", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three-wire system":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a constant potential system of electric distribution in which lamps or other receiving devices are connected between either one of two main conductors and a third wire and motors and heavy duty appliances are usually connected across the main conductors":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083648", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threesome":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a golf match in which one person plays his or her ball against the ball of two others playing each stroke alternately":[], ": a group of three persons or things : trio":[], ": a sexual encounter involving three people":[] }, "examples":[ "the threesome has been playing music together since all three were in high school", "you don't see many threesomes at honeymoon resorts, but one bride had brought along her mother", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Ahead, nine tips that'll help you have the threesome of your wet dreams. \u2014 Sophie Saint Thomas, refinery29.com , 2 June 2022", "And Rory McIlroy, who led after the first 18 holes, is part of a threesome tied at 4-under. \u2014 Andrew Beaton, WSJ , 21 May 2022", "Spurious legend has it that a voyeuristic innkeeper in Bologna was peeking through a keyhole to spy on Venus, Mars and Bacchus in the middle of a hot and heavy threesome . \u2014 Silvia Marchetti, CNN , 26 Apr. 2022", "Jeongeun Lee6, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, began the barrage as a member of the first threesome on the course. \u2014 Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Mar. 2022", "Another said the former pastor asked her to have a threesome with him and his wife. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 26 May 2022", "This isn\u2019t the smile of his Insecure character, Lawrence Walker, after accidentally charming his way into a threesome . \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 17 May 2022", "The final threesome of Theegala, Koepka and Scheffler goes off at 11:05 a.m. Schauffele, Talor Gooch and Patrick Cantlay are all two shots off the lead and tee off at 10:54. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 12 Feb. 2022", "For a while, the threesome embrace their lives as a m\u00e9nage a trois, until jealousy shatters their arrangement. \u2014 Vogue , 28 July 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-s\u0259m" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "triad", "trifecta", "trinity", "trio", "triple", "triplet", "triumvirate" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102853", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threitol":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a sweet crystalline tetrahydroxy alcohol HOCH 2 (CHOH) 2 CH 2 OH known in three optically isomeric forms and formed by reduction of threose":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "thre- + -itol":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "-\u02cct\u014dl", "\u02c8thr\u0113\u0259\u02cct\u022fl" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-113707", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thremmatology":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": the science of breeding animals and plants under domestication":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Greek thremmat-, thremma nursling + English -o- + -logy":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthrem\u0259\u02c8t\u00e4l\u0259j\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-210646", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threnode":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": threnody":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1614, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thre-", "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02ccn\u014dd" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035021", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "threnody":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a song of lamentation for the dead : elegy":[] }, "examples":[ "the composer's cello concerto was composed as a moving threnody for his late wife", "Recent Examples on the Web", "His diary shrank to a litany of suffering and a threnody for what might have been. \u2014 Sara Wheeler, WSJ , 25 Oct. 2018", "Most critics acknowledged the score\u2019s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra\u2019s death scene, in which the character\u2019s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody . \u2014 Anthony Tommasini, New York Times , 22 Dec. 2017", "Needless to say, Murray\u2019s threnody for Europe is as fundamentally incoherent as its late-19th-century originals. \u2014 Pankaj Mishra, New York Times , 14 Sep. 2017", "Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF), \u2014 Sophie Brown, WIRED , 9 Aug. 2011" ], "first_known_use":{ "1634, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Greek thr\u0113n\u014didia , from thr\u0113nos dirge + aeidein to sing \u2014 more at drone , ode":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thre-n\u0259-d\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "dirge", "elegy", "lament", "requiem" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020554", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threnos":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "threnos , from Greek thr\u0113nos; threnus from Late Latin, from Greek thr\u0113nos":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113\u02ccn\u00e4s" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010441", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threo-":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ "\u2014 see thre-":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191138", "type":[] }, "threonic acid":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a syrupy or crystalline trihydroxy acid HOCH 2 (CHOH) 2 COOH formed by oxidation of threose":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "threonic International Scientific Vocabulary thre- + -onic":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "thr\u0113\u02c8\u00e4nik-" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195356", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "threonine":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a colorless crystalline essential amino acid C 4 H 9 NO 3":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "For example, the base series ACG encode the amino acid threonine . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 11 June 2022", "These essential amino acids are: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenyalinine, threonine , tryptophan and valine. \u2014 Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping , 5 Oct. 2021", "This insertion added the peptide GLTSKRN (glycine-leucine- threonine -serine-lysine-arginine-asparagine) between Spike protein positions 214 and 215. \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 28 Sep. 2021", "The key dietary nutrients for collagen production include chromium, copper and zinc, Omega-3, silica, sulfur, vitamin C, iron, threonine , proline, and lysine\u2014all of which are found in The Beauty Chef\u2019s Collagen Inner Beauty Boost. \u2014 April Long, Town & Country , 4 July 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1936, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "probably from threonic acid (C 4 H 8 O 5 )":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccn\u0113n" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184231", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thresh":{ "type":[ "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": thrash sense 3":[], ": to strike repeatedly":[], ": to thresh grain":[], ": thrash sense 2":[], ": thrash sense 1":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrash", "\u02c8thresh" ], "synonyms":[ "fiddle", "fidget", "jerk", "jig", "jiggle", "squiggle", "squirm", "thrash", "toss", "twist", "twitch", "wiggle", "wriggle", "writhe" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "threshing and harvesting at the same time", "the poor dog threshed against his chain", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Sep. 2019", "The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Aug. 2019", "Vintage tractors, trucks, cars and motorcycles will be on display, and there will be a Parade of Power, tractor pulls and demonstrations of threshing , horse plowing, butter churning, blacksmithing and more. \u2014 Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com , 29 July 2019", "Subrat Chandra Gayen, another resident of Joymoni, said nearly 80 percent of families have had to give up on rice farming, which once provided food and an income for most people in the area, including women who sowed, harvested, and threshed it. \u2014 Manipadma Jena, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 Mar. 2018", "In the San Joaquin Valley, beans are harvested by a machine called Big Bertha, which can pick and thresh fifty thousand pounds a day. \u2014 Junot D\u00edaz, The New Yorker , 17 Apr. 2018", "Deuteronomy 25:4 prohibits the muzzling of an ox that is threshing . \u2014 Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post , 29 Jan. 2018", "Sometimes scenes of hunting, netting fish, herding and butchering animals, threshing grain and other farming activities were carved or painted directly onto tomb walls, as in the exquisite murals at the ancient burial grounds at Saqqara near Cairo. \u2014 Salima Ikram, Smithsonian , 3 Feb. 2017", "Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 Sep. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thresshen , from Old English threscan ; akin to Old High German dreskan to thresh":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-091917" }, "threshold":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the plank , stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door : sill":[], ": gate , door":[], ": the place or point of entering or beginning : outset":[ "on the threshold of a new age" ], ": the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced":[ "has a high threshold for pain" ], ": a level, point, or value above which something is true or will take place and below which it is not or will not":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thre-\u02ccsh\u014dld", "\u02c8thresh-\u02cc(h)\u014dld", "\u02c8thresh-\u02cch\u014dld" ], "synonyms":[ "brink", "cusp", "edge", "point", "verge" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "\u2026 we still hadn't grasped that we had crossed a threshold where it no longer mattered what passport you carried, that you were young and loved, \u2026 or that you were a noncombatant. \u2014 Paul Salopek , National Geographic , April 2008", "As we speak, the very worst of humanity is on the threshold of acquiring the most powerful weapons in history\u2014this is a fear and a consideration to be taken very seriously. \u2014 Charles Krauthammer , New Republic , 29 Apr. 2002", "We thought that we were on the threshold of an age of space travel. But the greatest impact of the trip to the moon was on how we view the Earth. \u2014 Suzannah Lessard , Wilson Quarterly , Summer 2001", "He stepped across the threshold .", "If your income rises above a certain threshold , your tax rate also rises.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Gelesis reported that participants in its clinical trial who used Plenity had an average weight loss of 6.4% of body weight \u2014 above the 5% that many physicians say is a good target threshold . \u2014 Julie Appleby, CBS News , 20 June 2022", "By the end of the play, Rooster Byron himself is on a threshold between one life and another. \u2014 Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker , 19 June 2022", "For commanding officers, there is a very low threshold for a personal infraction, said Gold, who is now a military law attorney. \u2014 Melissa Chan, NBC News , 17 June 2022", "Bitcoin came close to hitting $20,000 in the past 24 hours, a threshold that could potentially trigger large liquidations. \u2014 Andy Edstrom, Fortune , 16 June 2022", "The revenue from Apple could grow beyond $250 million per season if subscriptions to Apple TV\u2019s MLS service surpass a certain threshold . \u2014 Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes , 16 June 2022", "There was one day in which prices moved by more than 10%, a typical threshold . \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 15 June 2022", "The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline crossed the $5 mark, a psychological threshold that could cut into summer vacation plans and likely will continue to ratchet up demand for electric vehicles \u2014 and ride sharing services. \u2014 Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press , 13 June 2022", "Among people who love French kissing, everyone has a different threshold for intensity. \u2014 Nikki Campo, SELF , 8 June 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thresshold , from Old English threscwald ; akin to Old Norse threskj\u01ebldr threshold, Old English threscan to thresh":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183645" }, "thrift":{ "antonyms":[ "diseconomy", "wastefulness" ], "definitions":{ ": a savings bank or savings and loan association":[], ": careful management especially of money":[], ": gainful occupation":[], ": healthy and vigorous growth":[] }, "examples":[ "Through hard work and thrift they sent all of their children to college.", "through hard work and thrift our father was able to raise the money to put all four of us through college", "Recent Examples on the Web", "There are reports that a set of Corning Ware was discovered in a thrift store and subsequently sold for $7,000. \u2014 Tribune News Service, al , 19 June 2022", "Right outside the door of the thrift store, along tiny Mill Street off of South Court Street, was a booth by Critter Creek Artistry, manned by Valley City artist Barb Lewis. \u2014 Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland , 14 June 2022", "Smeary rainbows, abstract faces sequestered inside expressionist faces, and crude landscapes of mountains and woodlands are splattered with random dribbles of color, like thrift -store Jackson Pollocks. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022", "The Bread of Life Rescue Mission in Oceanside served its last meal to homeless people on Wednesday as the nonprofit shuttered its dining hall, pantry, thrift store and offices after 17 years at its Apple Street location. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 June 2022", "All told, at least 11 buildings burned, including several homes, Two Rivers Lodge, a historic grange hall and a thrift store. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 5 June 2022", "The Second Glance thrift store is popular with bargain hunters. \u2014 Linda Greenstein, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022", "Stephanie Yang is the senior counsel of employment and litigation at the online thrift store thredUP in Oakland, California. \u2014 Fortune , 30 May 2022", "But Trish is the plum part here, and a sensational Qualley \u2014 cycling through a ragged thrift -store wardrobe, with a lavish halo of dark curls that can\u2019t help but recall her mother, Andie MacDowell \u2014 grabs it with both callused hands. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 25 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old Norse, prosperity, from thr\u012bfask to thrive":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrift" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "economy", "frugality", "husbandry", "parsimony", "penny-pinching", "providence", "scrimping", "skimping" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214702", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thrift account":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a savings account especially in a commercial bank":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105254", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thrift shop":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a shop that sells secondhand articles and especially clothes and is often run for charitable purposes":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "As the manager of Threads for Therapy, a nonprofit thrift shop in the Tenderloin run by a Christian charity, Angel Fernandez watched warily on a recent afternoon as customers perused the women\u2019s coats. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022", "The group runs an all-volunteer thrift shop at 2068 E. Valley Pkwy. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 6 May 2022", "For every contender hunting for bargains at the thrift shop , however, there was a team like the Lions, stuck with two top picks in a quarterback-less draft. \u2014 Mike Tanier, New York Times , 1 May 2022", "Through donations, grants, fundraising events and sales at its thrift shop in Oceanside, the chapter supports activities such as giving books to elementary students, funds toward college scholarships and at-home learning kits. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 20 Feb. 2022", "That look was like a social media feed of personal passions and funny thrift shop or Depop finds. \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 Feb. 2022", "The thrift shop \u2019s manager, Wendy Morris, was named the group\u2019s Volunteer of the Year for 2020-2021. \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 Dec. 2021", "Terra, a vintage thrift shop , is another new addition to the area. \u2014 Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure , 23 Feb. 2022", "Law enforcement evacuated a portion of downtown Junction City on Saturday afternoon after a hand grenade was found inside a donation box at a local thrift shop . \u2014 oregonlive , 13 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1944, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184852", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thrift society":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a voluntary association usually unincorporated to promote thrift and for the collective investment of the savings of the members":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195856", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thriftless":{ "antonyms":[ "conserving", "economical", "economizing", "frugal", "penny-pinching", "scrimping", "skimping", "thrifty" ], "definitions":{ ": careless, wasteful, or incompetent in handling money or resources : improvident":[], ": lacking usefulness or worth":[] }, "examples":[ "a thriftless girl who didn't keep track of her finances and overspent constantly" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrift-l\u0259s" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "extravagant", "high-rolling", "prodigal", "profligate", "spendthrift", "squandering", "unthrifty", "wasteful" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225547", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "thrifty":{ "antonyms":[ "prodigal", "profligate", "spendthrift", "squandering", "thriftless", "unthrifty", "wasteful" ], "definitions":{ ": given to or marked by economy and good management":[], ": growing vigorously":[], ": thriving by industry and frugality : prosperous":[] }, "examples":[ "if you are thrifty , you can find ways to decorate your room stylishly yet inexpensively", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The rest of us, who work with what nature has given us, find that our lawns disappear after the flush of spring because nature here gives with such a thrifty hand. \u2014 Richard Brookhiser, National Review , 26 May 2022", "Our dinners were usually thrifty and utilitarian, with lots of repeats, but holidays and birthdays \u2014 celebrations of any kind \u2014 were another thing entirely. \u2014 Emily Heil, Washington Post , 9 June 2022", "Another thrifty brand, namechecked by both Mr. Reyes and Mr. Hartleben, is Kim Kardashian\u2019s Skims, which offers a range of fits and cuts in sizes from XXS to 4X, starting at about $40. \u2014 Aria Darcella, WSJ , 5 May 2022", "Going it alone can be thrifty , but rarely fully delivers. \u2014 Emil Sayegh, Forbes , 17 May 2022", "While my thrifty mom taught me to be frugal, my entrepreneurial dad showed me how to take risks. \u2014 Lyanne Alfaro, refinery29.com , 11 May 2022", "Hilcorp, known as a thrifty oil producer, kept its employee offices housed at the JL Tower building at 3800 Centerpoint Drive in Midtown. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Apr. 2022", "Chronicle wine writers Esther Mobley and Jess Lander mapped out where thrifty travelers can find a $4 breakfast, $30 wine tastings and $1.50 happy hour specials. \u2014 Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 May 2022", "More directly, inflation will have a dampening effect on profits, so large companies may become more thrifty with spending on technology (or consolidating software suppliers), and consumers will likely be less inclined to buy goods and services. \u2014 Rob Kniaz, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrif-t\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for thrifty sparing , frugal , thrifty , economical mean careful in the use of one's money or resources. sparing stresses abstention and restraint. sparing in the offering of advice frugal implies absence of luxury and simplicity of lifestyle. ran a frugal household thrifty stresses good management and industry. thrifty use of nonrenewable resources economical stresses prudent management, lack of wastefulness, and use of things to their best advantage. an economical health-care plan", "synonyms":[ "economical", "economizing", "frugal", "provident", "scrimping", "sparing" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052051", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "thrill":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a feeling of great excitement or happiness":[ "The thrill isn't gone from our marriage after all this time.", "the thrill of discovery/victory", "\"The most fun thing I've done so far,\" [Dorothy] Parke reports, \"is put my foot through a window. It was only breakaway glass; but it was my first stunt, and it gave me such a thrill .\"", "\u2014 Paul Francis" ], ": a tingling of or as if of the nerves produced by a sudden emotional reaction":[ "a thrill of horror", "a thrill of pride/pleasure/anticipation", "Harry felt a thrill of dread: He was about to pay for what had just happened, he was sure of it.", "\u2014 J. K. Rowling" ], ": a very exciting or enjoyable event or experience":[ "What a thrill it was to see the Queen!", "a movie with a lot of thrills and chills [=exciting and frightening parts]", "the thrills and spills of skateboarding", "He had always fancied himself as having a fine voice, and now to hear it from his wife's own lips was a real thrill .", "\u2014 E. B. White" ], ": to cause (someone) to experience a strong feeling of enjoyable excitement":[ "The news thrilled him.", "a performance that thrilled the crowd", "It's just one of the 35 breathtaking stunts the 47-year-old daredevil pilot uses to thrill spectators at airshows across the country.", "\u2014 Jean Bryant" ], ": to experience a surge of excitement and pleasure":[ "They thrilled to the sound of his voice.", "She remembers that her father thrilled to see his daughter's name in print \u2026", "\u2014 David Ansen", "From the beginning, Americans thrilled to the Hubble's potential to do dramatic science, to take us intellectually where no one has gone before.", "\u2014 Chet Raymo", "Kit thrilled at the sight of the familiar red coats.", "\u2014 Elizabeth George Speare" ], ": to move or pass so as to cause a sudden wave of emotion":[ "\u2026 a faint cold fear thrills through my veins \u2026", "\u2014 William Shakespeare" ], ": tremble entry 1 , vibrate":[ "\u2026 the very rocks seem to thrill with life.", "\u2014 John Muir" ], "\u2014 see also thrilled , thrilling":[ "The news thrilled him.", "a performance that thrilled the crowd", "It's just one of the 35 breathtaking stunts the 47-year-old daredevil pilot uses to thrill spectators at airshows across the country.", "\u2014 Jean Bryant" ] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "Circus performers still thrill audiences today.", "I was thrilled by their decision.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Here, these shrubs provide early blooms that continue to thrill for a period of up to six weeks as different varieties chime in. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022", "Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts \u2014 whose members thrill to these exotics. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022", "While younger guests are exploring Camp Snoopy, others might head towards Shivering Timbers or Thunderhawk, which thrill guests with high-speed, airtime adventures. \u2014 Alec Brzezinski, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022", "And without a stupendous Fanny to thrill and distract, the musical\u2019s manifold faults become painfully evident. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022", "The game itself is a scary experience designed to thrill and unsettle. \u2014 Andy Robertson, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022", "And if those don't thrill you, former Disney Channel favorite Zac Efron feels the heat (and gets one heck of a sunburn) in a post-apocalyptic drama. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022", "But the prospect of that triumph didn't sufficiently thrill him, apparently. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 28 Mar. 2022", "This enthusiasm goes double for racing cars, which thrill people of all ages and backgrounds, and have for nigh on a century. \u2014 Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3a":"Verb", "circa 1680, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thirlen, thrillen to pierce, from Old English thyrlian , from thyrel hole, from thurh through \u2014 more at through entry 1":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thril" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "charge", "electrify", "excite", "exhilarate", "galvanize", "intoxicate", "pump up", "titillate", "turn on" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010909", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thriller":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[ "His latest novel is a political thriller .", "those televison awards are hardly thrillers since the same people win year after year", "Recent Examples on the Web", "From the outset, the Prime Video series Night Sky, about a couple whose home contains a mysterious portal to outer space, might seem like a thriller . \u2014 Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 June 2022", "The film sort of plays out like a psychological thriller , but there's very dark comedic undertones and some satire thrown in, which makes for something very fresh and unique. \u2014 Clarissa Cruz, EW.com , 17 June 2022", "Currently, Hathaway is filming her upcoming thriller , Mothers' Instinct, alongside Jessica Chastain, in New Jersey. \u2014 Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 8 June 2022", "Auger-Aliassime said Nadal did not appear to be hampered or slowed at all during their fourth-round thriller , which lasted nearly 4 1/2 hours, almost twice as long as Djokovic's straight-set win Sunday over 15th-seeded Diego Schwartzman. \u2014 Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022", "With prose that reads like a thriller , Browder walks us through legal strategies and developments that include enough high drama, plot twists and colorful characters for a movie. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 May 2022", "Former One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles had nothing but praise for his girlfriend, actor-director Olivia Wilde, when talking about working with her on the set of their upcoming thriller , Don\u2019t Worry Darling. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 18 May 2022", "It\u2019s a twisty thriller that even the director predicted would provoke walkouts. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 13 May 2022", "It\u2019s a historical thriller set in the Serengeti with lots of flashbacks to the characters\u2019 \u2018safe\u2019 lives in California. \u2014 Denise Davidsonwriter, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1889, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thri-l\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "cliff-hanger", "hair-raiser", "nail-biter", "suspenser" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114941", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thrilling":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": causing a feeling of great excitement or happiness":[ "a thrilling discovery", "a thrilling performance", "\u2026 flashes into the end zone to give the Rams the winning touchdown in the most thrilling Super Bowl finish ever.", "\u2014 Rick Reilly" ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1768, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thri-li\u014b" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061131", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb" ] }, "thrive":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper":[], ": to grow vigorously : flourish":[], ": to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances":[ "\u2014 often used with on thrives on conflict" ] }, "examples":[ "these plants thrive with relatively little sunlight", "going to a school for gifted students will help him thrive as a musical prodigy", "Recent Examples on the Web", "And our current economic climate \u2014 marked by high inflation and low unemployment \u2014 is just the kind of environment where these lenders thrive , my colleague Nicole Goodkind writes. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 23 June 2022", "Companies that create an environment where employees can thrive find that their workers are more productive and efficient, and more likely to drive innovation, Swift says. \u2014 Beth Decarbo, Washington Post , 17 June 2022", "Eggs are laid in sites with damp soil, and larvae hunt in moist environments where prey like slugs and snails thrive . \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 9 June 2022", "This is the exact environment where autonomous vehicles would thrive . \u2014 Cheri Beranek, Forbes , 6 June 2022", "Another approach would be to focus on creating more places like Zealandia, also near Wellington, which is a fenced reserve of nearly one square mile where native wildlife can thrive . \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022", "Most city public transport in Africa is yet to go cashless, causing traffic congestion where petty thieves thrive . \u2014 Faustine Ngila, Quartz , 31 May 2022", "Our schools should be places where our young people thrive , not feel shame. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 25 May 2022", "Not here, in Indianapolis, in a sport where the powers thrive out east. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 24 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old Norse thr\u012bfask , probably reflexive of thr\u012bfa to grasp":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u012bv" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "burgeon", "bourgeon", "flourish", "prosper" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-195120", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thrive on":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to do well in a particular kind of situation":[ "She thrives on attention.", "He actually thrives on stress." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000416", "type":[ "phrasal verb" ] }, "thriveless":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": being without advantage : unsuccessful":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u012bvl\u0259\u0307s" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171330", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "thriving":{ "antonyms":[ "failed", "unsuccessful" ], "definitions":{ ": characterized by success or prosperity":[ "a thriving business" ] }, "examples":[ "our new landscaping business is thriving", "the once thriving downtown has fallen into steep decline since the new mall was built", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Black Rock and the Biennale de Dakar are part of a thriving creative scene that has emerged in Senegal and across the African continent over the past decade. \u2014 Vogue , 1 June 2022", "Today, Democrats continue to perform relatively well in neighborhoods near the city of Sarasota, which has a thriving restaurant scene and a historic opera house. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022", "Series features some of the finest of Cincinnati's thriving jazz scene. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 25 Apr. 2022", "Austin\u2014a tech hub with a thriving restaurant and music scene\u2014had the highest share of people working or looking for jobs and the highest growth in payroll employment. \u2014 Danny Dougherty, WSJ , 22 Apr. 2022", "Known for its perfect white-sand beaches stretching into turquoise waters, the calm of the scenery is enhanced with plenty of outdoor activities among the area's jungles and mangroves, as well as a thriving nightlife scene. \u2014 Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure , 19 Apr. 2022", "Musicians in Ukraine say that a thriving , diverse scene of all genres grew in their country after the 2014 revolution. \u2014 David Browne, Rolling Stone , 28 Feb. 2022", "Buenos Aires has cultivated a thriving startup scene, despite the country\u2019s ongoing economic instability. \u2014 Wired Ideas, Wired , 16 Feb. 2022", "Dallas has significant job creation across the finance, healthcare and education markets and a thriving professional sports scene. \u2014 Ethan Parker, Forbes , 27 Dec. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1604, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u012b-vi\u014b" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "flourishing", "going", "palmy", "prosperous", "successful", "triumphant" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204218", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb" ] }, "thro":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": through":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182658", "type":[ "preposition" ] }, "throat":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": in open and aggressive conflict":[], ": something resembling the throat especially in being an entrance, a passageway, a constriction, or a narrowed part: such as":[], ": the curved part of an anchor's arm where it joins the shank \u2014 see anchor illustration":[], ": the opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep":[], ": the orifice of a tubular organ especially of a plant":[], ": the part of a tennis racket that connects the head with the shaft":[], ": the part of the neck in front of the spinal column":[], ": the passage through the neck to the stomach and lungs":[], ": the seat of the voice":[], ": to sing or enunciate in a throaty voice":[], ": to utter in the throat : mutter":[], ": voice":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "My throat was dry so I took a sip of water.", "He held a knife to her throat .", "His shirt was open at the throat .", "He grabbed her by the throat .", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But after a police officer kneeled on the throat of a Black man in Minnesota for nine minutes and 29 seconds, and the Black Lives Matter movement swept across the country, the name Dixie became a matter that could no longer be ignored. \u2014 Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 June 2022", "Menthol, a chemical derived from the mint plant that can also be made in a lab, is added to cigarettes to make smoking less harsh, providing a cooling sensation in the throat and making the experience more appealing. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022", "This minty flavor creates a cooling sensation on the throat and softens the harshness of the tobacco taste. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022", "One of the defendants, Michael Cooper, 44, was stabbed in the head and back in January 2018, then cut in the throat and face in December 2019 after falling out of favor with Martinez and Aguirre, according to the indictment. \u2014 Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times , 27 Apr. 2022", "The infection first appears in the throat ; infectious virus peaks about five days into infection, which is also when the most significant symptoms are usually noticed, the researchers said. \u2014 NBC News , 2 Feb. 2022", "Initial evidence suggests that Omicron may be more prevalent in the throat than previous variants, which tend to replicate in the nose. \u2014 Sara Reardon, Scientific American , 26 Jan. 2022", "Friends bring each other home tests and debate whether the nose swab should really be used on the throat . \u2014 Peggy Noonan, WSJ , 6 Jan. 2022", "When perched, folded wings often hide the yellow rump patch, but there are other identifying marks, including bright yellow patches on the throat and just below the wings on their flanks. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Nov. 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Why may throat swabs help COVID-19 rapid tests give more accurate results", "Delhiites are now spotting rare birds like gray hornbills and red- throated flycatchers. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 21 Apr. 2020", "Delhiites are now spotting rare birds like gray hornbills and red- throated flycatchers. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 21 Apr. 2020", "Delhiites are now spotting rare birds like gray hornbills and red- throated flycatchers. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Apr. 2020", "Where death enters white armed, white throated , Where the body drops like lightning on rain-moist ground. \u2014 Patricia Spears Jones, The New Yorker , 9 Mar. 2020", "This week, look for white-crowned, white- throated , swamp, and Savannah sparrows. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 Oct. 2019", "Trump, meanwhile, has hardly been full- throated in his support for Guaid\u00f3. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2020", "But some turtles, like the Australian white- throated snapping turtle, can absorb oxygen from water through their cloaca \u2013 a backside tube that functions as a waste-excreting, breeding and egg-laying zone. \u2014 Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY , 27 Nov. 2019" ], "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun", "circa 1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throte , from Old English; akin to Old High German drozza throat":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014dt" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221419", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throatband":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": neckband":[], ": throatlatch":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-230300", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throaty":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": heavy, thick, and deep as if from the throat":[ "throaty notes of a horn" ], ": uttered or produced from low in the throat":[ "a throaty voice" ] }, "examples":[ "had a bad cold and a throaty cough to go with it", "Recent Examples on the Web", "But much like Thatcher, for whom Anderson assumed a quivering deep and throaty tone, the role was a physical one that required a great deal of voice work. \u2014 Manori Ravindran, Variety , 1 Apr. 2022", "Just as noteworthy is the V-6's revised exhaust note, which thrums more deeply than before and lends this big Lincoln an appropriately throaty voice that could (almost) be mistaken for a burbling V-8's. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 4 Mar. 2022", "As if on cue, the Estonian psychologist, Alar, vomited into his bucket, setting off a domino effect of throaty purges around the room. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 29 Apr. 2011", "Metro Detroit\u2019s Woodward Avenue, suburban twisties and country roads were suddenly full of spring songbirds: the sharp call of the Porsche flat-six, the gurgling growl of the Mustang V-8, the throaty bark of the Corvette. \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2020", "Ease off the throttle and the engine is a different animal, sinking to a wavering, slightly throaty , but otherwise normal idle, at 700 rpm. \u2014 Don Schroeder, Car and Driver , 25 May 2020", "With the sweeping vista of the Alaska Range in the background, Monaco pulled back on his flight controls and his jet shot into the sky with a throaty roar and rattle. \u2014 Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News , 14 May 2020", "Of course, the most common comment was how wonderful its throaty V-8 sounds. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 16 Mar. 2020", "In limiting pollution, though, those devices typically lessen power, making the electricity plant less efficient and\u2014as generations of teenage drivers know\u2014the car less throaty off the line. \u2014 Jeffrey Ball, Fortune , 16 Mar. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1647, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-t\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "coarse", "croaking", "croaky", "grating", "gravel", "gravelly", "gruff", "hoarse", "husky", "rasping", "raspy", "rusty", "scratchy" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065919", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "throb":{ "antonyms":[ "beat", "beating", "palpitation", "pulsation", "pulse" ], "definitions":{ ": beat , pulse":[], ": to beat or vibrate rhythmically":[], ": to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity":[] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "Her finger throbbed with pain.", "The music throbs with a Caribbean beat.", "drums throbbing in the distance", "Noun", "the throb of the drums", "The pain has changed to a dull throb .", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "There are harmonies and operatic vocals, electronic and acoustic notes, throbbing bass lines and rock riffs, all which capture the euphoria of falling in love and the pits of heartache and tragedy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 May 2020", "On Fridays, Saturdays and basically any given weeknight, my Brooklyn neighborhood is alive with throbbing house music, over-earnest open mics, DJ sets, roiling apartment bashes and cars blasting Reggaeton. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 1 Apr. 2020", "Zadina played the next night when the Wings hosted the Rangers, but throbbing pain prompted an X-ray, which revealed a fracture. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 7 Mar. 2020", "Its throbbing bassline and beat, paired with Sophie Hawley-Weld\u2019s angelic voice and Halpern\u2019s low growl, creates a delicious cocktail that is equal parts dirty, melodic and anthemic. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 20 Dec. 2019", "She was especially impressed by the 50 or so drummers dressed in black mariachi costumes pounding out a throbbing rhythm toward the end. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2019", "His wrists throbbed in time with his heart and kept him awake at night. \u2014 Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads , 14 Mar. 2020", "My phone is throbbing with messages from family around the world, checking in on each other. \u2014 Laurie Penny, Wired , 14 Mar. 2020", "San Francisco throbbed red and gold Sunday as the 49ers tromped into the Super Bowl for the first time in seven years, with every conceivable sports bar rocking hard and block parties filling driveways and living rooms with screaming fans. \u2014 Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com , 2 Feb. 2020", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Austin Butler has been scoring raves for his chameleonic turn as Elvis Presley, charting his life and career from his early days as a gyrating heart throb through his corpulent coda as a Vegas regular. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 24 June 2022", "In the morning, the Hemi V8\u2019s cold-start cycle sounds like Jack Kennedy is firing up the old PT 109, but the engine quickly settles into a turgid throb . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022", "The Half of It Rated PG-13 for brief language, teen drinking and the delicate throb of unrequited love. \u2014 Kyle Turner, New York Times , 1 May 2020", "Walking down a modern urban thoroughfare, the throb and dynamism of our benighted race is constantly on show. \u2014 The School Of Life, CNN , 27 May 2020", "Her songs continued to toggle between moments of twee intimacy and the collectivizing throb of the dance floor. \u2014 Hua Hsu, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2020", "This is how the human race ends: with the shallow clang of metal on metal, a squalling screech, the heavy stomp and throb of percussion. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 21 Feb. 2020", "The sting of a paper cut or the throb of a dog bite is perceived through the skin, where cells react to mechanical forces and send an electrical message to the brain. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Jan. 2020", "After ten years, the pain of the Fallen Fifty has become a dull throb in the hearts of Potterheads, but with every re-watch, one death still hits just as hard: Fred Weasley. \u2014 Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen , 6 Jan. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1578, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throbben":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4b" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "beat", "palpitate", "pit-a-pat", "pitter-patter", "pulsate", "pulse" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172027", "type":[ "intransitive verb", "noun", "verb" ] }, "throe":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a hard or painful struggle":[ "the throes of revolutionary social change", "\u2014 M. D. Geismar" ], ": pang , spasm":[ "death throes", "throes of childbirth" ] }, "examples":[ "collapsed in the throes of agony", "that third-world country is caught up in the throes of a democratic revolution", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Most lighter elements are forged in the death- throe explosions of massive stars known as supernovas, but astronomers have long theorized that the heavier elements might originate in kilonovas produced when two neutron stars collide. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Mar. 2022", "There\u2019s a death throe going on for white supremacy and patriarchy and homophobia and antisemitism. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Nov. 2021", "Deutsche Bank is in the throes of a massive restructuring aimed at turning it into a leaner, more profitable machine after five consecutive annual losses. \u2014 Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg.com , 11 June 2020", "That would include having unarmed mental health professionals, instead of police officers, respond when people are in the throes of a mental health crisis, Henton said. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 9 June 2020", "Officials in , now in the throes of one of the world\u2019s most explosive outbreaks, warn that the hospital system in Santiago is teetering at capacity. \u2014 Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post , 3 June 2020", "His death reverberated throughout an NBA already in the throes of a tough year. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, ExpressNews.com , 22 May 2020", "This shock, unlike prior ones, comes upon an energy sector already in the throes of change. \u2014 The Economist , 21 May 2020", "But while Wednesday\u2019s move provides hope for cities from Paris to New York currently in the throes of their own lockdowns, the restrictions China is leaving in place show that the road back to normality will be long. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 19 May 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawe, throwe , from Old English thrawu, thr\u0113a threat, pang; akin to Old High German drawa threat":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "ache", "pain", "pang", "prick", "shoot", "smart", "sting", "stitch", "tingle", "twinge" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112146", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throes":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a hard or painful struggle":[ "the throes of revolutionary social change", "\u2014 M. D. Geismar" ], ": pang , spasm":[ "death throes", "throes of childbirth" ] }, "examples":[ "collapsed in the throes of agony", "that third-world country is caught up in the throes of a democratic revolution", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Most lighter elements are forged in the death- throe explosions of massive stars known as supernovas, but astronomers have long theorized that the heavier elements might originate in kilonovas produced when two neutron stars collide. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 Mar. 2022", "There\u2019s a death throe going on for white supremacy and patriarchy and homophobia and antisemitism. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 Nov. 2021", "Deutsche Bank is in the throes of a massive restructuring aimed at turning it into a leaner, more profitable machine after five consecutive annual losses. \u2014 Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg.com , 11 June 2020", "That would include having unarmed mental health professionals, instead of police officers, respond when people are in the throes of a mental health crisis, Henton said. \u2014 Cory Shaffer, cleveland , 9 June 2020", "Officials in , now in the throes of one of the world\u2019s most explosive outbreaks, warn that the hospital system in Santiago is teetering at capacity. \u2014 Terrence Mccoy, Washington Post , 3 June 2020", "His death reverberated throughout an NBA already in the throes of a tough year. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, ExpressNews.com , 22 May 2020", "This shock, unlike prior ones, comes upon an energy sector already in the throes of change. \u2014 The Economist , 21 May 2020", "But while Wednesday\u2019s move provides hope for cities from Paris to New York currently in the throes of their own lockdowns, the restrictions China is leaving in place show that the road back to normality will be long. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 19 May 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawe, throwe , from Old English thrawu, thr\u0113a threat, pang; akin to Old High German drawa threat":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "ache", "pain", "pang", "prick", "shoot", "smart", "sting", "stitch", "tingle", "twinge" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-005009", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throne":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an order of angels \u2014 see celestial hierarchy":[], ": royal power and dignity : sovereignty":[], ": the chair of state of a sovereign or high dignitary (such as a bishop)":[], ": the seat of a deity":[], ": to hold kingly power":[], ": to invest with kingly rank or power":[], ": to seat on a throne":[], ": to sit on a throne":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "The king sat on his throne .", "He is next in line for the throne .", "the heir to the throne", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Albert Chong\u2019s silvery black-and-white film photograph shows a simple chair transformed into a throne with the placement of a skull and offerings of fruit. \u2014 Mark Jenkins, Washington Post , 28 June 2022", "Bachelder renders a scene many beleaguered parents will recognize: how, sometimes, something as simple as a vacant seat on the couch can feel like a throne . \u2014 Oliver Munday, The Atlantic , 17 June 2022", "The mother-daughter team set up their compound there, making pronouncements from a gilded throne and snapping up the paychecks of their acolytes\u2019 work in a tomato-packing plant. \u2014 Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022", "If dad needs a throne , consider this oversized, padded folding camp chair ($99.99, originally $159.99). \u2014 cleveland , 10 June 2022", "Prince Charles does not have a throne himself and instead delivered the speech from the Consort's Throne, which was previously used by his late father, Prince Philip. \u2014 Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022", "The packaging\u2014featuring golden framing in front of images of red carpet and a throne \u2014was inspired by Buckingham Palace, Mattel added. \u2014 Allison Prang, WSJ , 21 Apr. 2022", "There is a bathroom alcove decked out top to bottom with gold-leaf tile, a toilet (also gold) sitting at its center like a throne . \u2014 Kat Rosenfield, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022", "But violence could break out, especially when rival claimants to a throne had different religious identities. \u2014 David M. Perry, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 Feb. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "And like Clemson last year, LSU de- throned the defending champion in the title game (winning 42-25), though this one was on a 29-game winning streak. \u2014 Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al , 14 Jan. 2020", "California currently does not have an official sport, so don\u2019t expect any de- throning drama from other athletes. \u2014 Andrea Alonso, Los Angeles Magazine , 19 Jan. 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English trone, throne , from Anglo-French trone , from Latin thronus , from Greek thronos \u2014 more at firm":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014dn" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053241", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throne name":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": the official name taken by a ruler and especially an ancient Egyptian pharaoh on ascending the throne":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180317", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throne room":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a formal audience room containing the throne of a sovereign":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Meanwhile, in the castle, Perrin and Loial (Hammed Animashaun) join forces with Fal Dara's top brass, who've retreated to the throne room to dig up an ancient artifact buried beneath its floorboards. \u2014 Randall Colburn, EW.com , 24 Dec. 2021", "The palace model opens up for easy access to the detailed throne room , barbecue area and kitchen. \u2014 Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Feb. 2022", "And not only that throne room , but the sets are so much more dynamic now. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 7 Jan. 2022", "The fateful coming of the enemy to Dunsinane is foreshadowed by Dechant in the throne room , where columns were laid out with the same proportions as a colonnade of trees the invading forces would later pass through. \u2014 CNN , 14 Jan. 2022", "Fain takes some time to gloat in front of our guy Perrin before exiting stage right as if getting into the throne room of a previously impregnable city were the easiest thing in the world. \u2014 Sean T. Collins, Vulture , 24 Dec. 2021", "Visitors can move through the crests and coat of arms room into the military gallery and then arrive at the throne room , standing in front of what was quite literally the seat of power for the Romanov dynasty. \u2014 Cai Pigliucci, CNN , 7 Dec. 2021", "T'Challa's story is wildly different as well, leading him to the stars instead of the throne room of his home country of Wakanda. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 19 Aug. 2021", "Sylvie and Loki fight back to back in a scene that is a little reminiscent of the throne room battle in The Last Jedi. \u2014 Lauren Morgan, EW.com , 30 June 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1787, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181329", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thronelet":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a little throne : an insignificant dominion":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "-l\u0259\u0307t" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-133853", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throneward":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": toward a throne":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "throne entry 1 + -ward":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "-nw\u0259(r)d" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003805", "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "throng":{ "antonyms":[ "crowd", "flock", "mob", "swarm" ], "definitions":{ ": a crowding together of many persons":[], ": a large number : host":[], ": a multitude of assembled persons":[], ": a pressing increase of activity":[ "this throng of business", "\u2014 S. R. Crockett" ], ": to crowd into : pack":[ "shoppers thronging the streets" ], ": to crowd together in great numbers":[], ": to crowd upon : press":[ "a celebrity thronged by fans" ] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng", "Verb", "Shoppers thronged the mall for the sales.", "fans thronged the field to celebrate the win", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Detroit police pegged the throng in downtown at 1 million fans, thousands and thousands of whom lined the streets hours before the scheduled 11:30 a.m. start. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022", "Rivian\u2019s stock price has sunk since Mr. Scaringe and an ecstatic throng of employees rang the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange the morning of its IPO in November. \u2014 Sean Mclain, WSJ , 4 June 2022", "After driver introductions, the gladiators negotiate the throng of people to get to their machines. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022", "The purple-and-orange throng snaked its way through the maze of barricades that fill downtown Phoenix these days, excitement growing with each step toward the Footprint Center. \u2014 John Marshall, ajc , 7 May 2022", "Each trip sees guests outfitted with all necessary camping equipment, daily gourmet cooking, and a throng of overlanding, rafting, and hiking adventures. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 5 May 2022", "To stand out amid those who love to explain love, Ms. Ury packages her coaching as precise and prestigious, applying the language of Silicon Valley C.E.O.s to a throng of anxious daters. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022", "At this point, they're nearly lost in a throng of people. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 30 May 2022", "Outside the prison gates after the ceremony, Moris, 38, cut a wedding cake and gave a speech to a throng of supporters. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Ahmad\u2019s family members were among the thousands to throng the international airport in Kabul in frantic hopes of boarding a plane \u2014 even as the Taliban closed in around them. \u2014 Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022", "Keeping warm should be an easy task for early arrivers, though, with a crowd of more than a million Braves fans expected to throng the parade route. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 4 Nov. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier last week, images of a baby being handed to a US Marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul\u2019s airport. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Aug. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier this week, images of a baby being handed to a U.S. Marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul's airport. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 23 Aug. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier this week, images of a baby being handed to a U.S. marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul\u2019s airport. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Aug. 2021", "The crowds that usually throng the Taj at sunset have been reduced to a handful of mostly local residents, roaming around the 25-acre complex for just over $3 a ticket. \u2014 New York Times , 6 July 2021", "But air travel is still limited by quarantine and other restrictions, keeping away the foreign pilgrims who usually throng Jerusalem during the holy week. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Apr. 2021", "But air travel is still limited by quarantine and other restrictions, keeping away the foreign pilgrims who usually throng Jerusalem during Holy Week. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Chron , 2 Apr. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrangen, throngen, probably derivative of throng, thrang throng entry 1 , replacing thringen, going back to Old English thringan":"Verb", "Middle English throng, thrang \"mass, press,\" going back to Old English *thrang or gethrang (with ge-, collective prefix), going back to West Germanic *\u00ferang- (whence Middle Dutch gedranc \"crowd, press,\" dranc, drang \"pressure,\" Old High German gidrang \"crowd, mass\"), noun ablaut derivative from the base of Germanic *\u00ferengan-,*\u00ferenhan- \"to press\" (whence Old Saxon thringan \"to press, urge,\" Old High German dringan, thringan, Old Norse \u00feryngva \"to press, crowd,\" Gothic \u00fereihan ), going back to dialectal Indo-European *trenk- \"press,\" whence also Lithuanian trenki\u00f9, tre\u00f1kti \"to push roughly, fling\"":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u022f\u014b" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for throng Noun crowd , throng , horde , crush , mob mean an assembled multitude. crowd implies a close gathering and pressing together. a crowd gathered throng and horde suggest movement and pushing. a throng of reporters a horde of shoppers crush emphasizes the compactness of the group, the difficulty of individual movement, and the attendant discomfort. a crush of fans mob implies a disorderly crowd with the potential for violence. an angry mob", "synonyms":[ "army", "bike", "cram", "crowd", "crush", "drove", "flock", "herd", "horde", "host", "legion", "mass", "mob", "multitude", "press", "rout", "scrum", "swarm" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-224526", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thronging":{ "antonyms":[ "crowd", "flock", "mob", "swarm" ], "definitions":{ ": a crowding together of many persons":[], ": a large number : host":[], ": a multitude of assembled persons":[], ": a pressing increase of activity":[ "this throng of business", "\u2014 S. R. Crockett" ], ": to crowd into : pack":[ "shoppers thronging the streets" ], ": to crowd together in great numbers":[], ": to crowd upon : press":[ "a celebrity thronged by fans" ] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "grabbed a megaphone and addressed the vast throng", "Verb", "Shoppers thronged the mall for the sales.", "fans thronged the field to celebrate the win", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Detroit police pegged the throng in downtown at 1 million fans, thousands and thousands of whom lined the streets hours before the scheduled 11:30 a.m. start. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 10 June 2022", "Rivian\u2019s stock price has sunk since Mr. Scaringe and an ecstatic throng of employees rang the opening bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange the morning of its IPO in November. \u2014 Sean Mclain, WSJ , 4 June 2022", "After driver introductions, the gladiators negotiate the throng of people to get to their machines. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 1 June 2022", "The purple-and-orange throng snaked its way through the maze of barricades that fill downtown Phoenix these days, excitement growing with each step toward the Footprint Center. \u2014 John Marshall, ajc , 7 May 2022", "Each trip sees guests outfitted with all necessary camping equipment, daily gourmet cooking, and a throng of overlanding, rafting, and hiking adventures. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 5 May 2022", "To stand out amid those who love to explain love, Ms. Ury packages her coaching as precise and prestigious, applying the language of Silicon Valley C.E.O.s to a throng of anxious daters. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022", "At this point, they're nearly lost in a throng of people. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 30 May 2022", "Outside the prison gates after the ceremony, Moris, 38, cut a wedding cake and gave a speech to a throng of supporters. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Ahmad\u2019s family members were among the thousands to throng the international airport in Kabul in frantic hopes of boarding a plane \u2014 even as the Taliban closed in around them. \u2014 Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022", "Keeping warm should be an easy task for early arrivers, though, with a crowd of more than a million Braves fans expected to throng the parade route. \u2014 Henri Hollis, ajc , 4 Nov. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier last week, images of a baby being handed to a US Marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul\u2019s airport. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 22 Aug. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier this week, images of a baby being handed to a U.S. Marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul's airport. \u2014 The Washington Post, Arkansas Online , 23 Aug. 2021", "In a separate incident earlier this week, images of a baby being handed to a U.S. marine across a barbed wire fence went viral online, as desperate crowds continue to throng outside Kabul\u2019s airport. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Aug. 2021", "The crowds that usually throng the Taj at sunset have been reduced to a handful of mostly local residents, roaming around the 25-acre complex for just over $3 a ticket. \u2014 New York Times , 6 July 2021", "But air travel is still limited by quarantine and other restrictions, keeping away the foreign pilgrims who usually throng Jerusalem during the holy week. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 2 Apr. 2021", "But air travel is still limited by quarantine and other restrictions, keeping away the foreign pilgrims who usually throng Jerusalem during Holy Week. \u2014 Joseph Krauss, Chron , 2 Apr. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrangen, throngen, probably derivative of throng, thrang 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throng and horde suggest movement and pushing. a throng of reporters a horde of shoppers crush emphasizes the compactness of the group, the difficulty of individual movement, and the attendant discomfort. a crush of fans mob implies a disorderly crowd with the potential for violence. an angry mob", "synonyms":[ "army", "bike", "cram", "crowd", "crush", "drove", "flock", "herd", "horde", "host", "legion", "mass", "mob", "multitude", "press", "rout", "scrum", "swarm" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182109", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thropple":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": throat , windpipe":[ "\u2014 used especially of a horse" ], ": throttle":[], "\u2014 compare throatlatch":[ "\u2014 used especially of a horse" ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throppill":"Noun", "alteration (influenced by thropple entry 1 ) of throttle entry 1":"Transitive verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\"", "\u02c8thr\u00e4p\u0259l" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-064354", "type":[ "noun", "transitive verb" ] }, "throstle":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English \u2014 more at thrush":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-s\u0259l" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183145", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throstle cock":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": mistle thrush":[], ": song thrush":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throstilcok , from throstil throstle + cok cock":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060444", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throt":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":[ "Definition of throt chiefly Scottish variant of throat" ], "examples":[], "first_known_use":[], "history_and_etymology":[], "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4t" ], "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-030730", "type":[] }, "throttle":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": at full speed":[ "the project is proceeding at full throttle" ], ": the condition of being throttled":[], ": the lever controlling this valve":[], ": throat sense 1a":[], ": to compress the throat of : choke":[], ": to decrease the flow of (something, such as steam or fuel to an engine) by a valve":[], ": to defeat easily or completely":[ "The Jets went to Miami and throttled the Dolphins.", "\u2014 Judy Battista" ], ": to kill by such action":[], ": to limit or reduce (the bandwidth available to users of an electronic communication system, such as the Internet) : to subject to throttling (see throttling sense 2 )":[ "The company throttles data access for customers who use a lot of data during moments of network congestion \u2026", "\u2014 Matt Day" ], ": to prevent or check expression or activity of : suppress":[ "policies that throttle creativity" ], ": to regulate and especially to reduce the speed of (something, such as an engine) by such means":[], ": to throttle something (something, such as an engine)":[ "\u2014 usually used with back or down the pilot throttled back" ], ": to vary the thrust of (a rocket engine) during flight":[], ": trachea sense 1":[] }, "examples":[ "Noun", "When you press a car's accelerator, it opens the throttle , and the car goes faster.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals have spoken openly about their desire to capture Ukraine's largest port, Odesa, and possibly the entire Ukrainian coastline -- which would throttle Ukraine's economy. \u2014 ABC News , 1 June 2022", "Stocks have been under pressure since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to fight inflation, with investors increasingly worried the central bank will throttle economic growth. \u2014 Peyton Forte | Bloomberg News, Washington Post , 20 May 2022", "However, the small chassis might negatively affect heat dissipation, causing the hardware to throttle . \u2014 Brittany Vincent, BGR , 16 Feb. 2022", "If the Fed can throttle down into a soft landing, that could give consumers, especially in lower income groups, some relief. \u2014 Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic , 15 May 2022", "Government leaders have promised that Shanghai's massive lockdown this week won't throttle the city's huge financial services industry. \u2014 Julia Horowitz, CNN , 30 Mar. 2022", "But Google and Apple have already hit back, suggesting the legislation will throttle innovation and efficiency. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 25 Mar. 2022", "The update will let users enable a performance mode that will not throttle the CPU and GPU in games. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 10 Mar. 2022", "The company indicates that GOS should only throttle games, not regular Galaxy S22 apps. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 8 Mar. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Class 2 ebikes offer a throttle with a maximum speed of 20 mph. \u2014 Maren Estrada, BGR , 26 Apr. 2022", "The sound does remain in the background, though, as the engine only musters 73 decibels of noise at full throttle . \u2014 Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver , 27 Apr. 2022", "There is business to be done, production and distribution deals to be made, and this year that sort of wheeling dealing has been as full throttle as Top Gun\u2019s elite fighter jets. \u2014 Dana Thomas, Vogue , 26 May 2022", "One is definitely aware of the extra power, even in efficiency mode, as that initial bit of throttle application (known as tip-in) can be neck-snappingly brutal, even with mild pedal applications. \u2014 Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022", "Management is working full throttle toward the commercial launch of the Endurance, Mr. Kroll said, adding that would be an important milestone for the company. \u2014 Nina Trentmann, WSJ , 16 May 2022", "No modern artist commands such power in both moments of ethereal humanity and mountainous throttle . \u2014 Bobby Olivier, SPIN , 12 May 2022", "Ask the wee engine to give its all under full throttle , though, and a substantial 78 decibels makes its way into the cabin\u2014that's 5 decibels more than in the VW Taos with the same engine. \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 6 May 2022", "Moving full throttle toward building as soon as possible on that recently identified brownfield site near Treemont shovels in the ground. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 5 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a(1)":"Verb", "circa 1547, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throtelen , from throte throat":"Verb", "perhaps from Middle English *throtel , diminutive of throte throat":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-t\u1d4al" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "choke", "garrote", "garotte", "strangle", "suffocate" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034549", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throttle back":{ "type":[ "phrasal verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to reduce the amount of fuel flowing to an engine by adjusting the throttle":[ "He throttled back to 45 mph.", "\u2014 sometimes used figuratively with respect to intensity You need to throttle back your anger." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-084700" }, "throttle lever":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a pedal or lever that controls a throttle valve":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014945", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throttle valve":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{}, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "throttle entry 1 + valve":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044613", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throttleable":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": capable of having the thrust varied":[ "\u2014 used of a rocket engine" ] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Faster refreshing screens with throttleable rates, always on standby screens, brighter vibrant colours, and more are all on deck ready to step up to the plate. \u2014 Ewan Spence, Forbes , 5 Apr. 2021", "Landing on the Moon required large fuel tanks, landing legs, and most importantly, a large throttleable engine. \u2014 Frank O\u2019brien, Ars Technica , 30 Jan. 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1960, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-t\u1d4al-\u0259-b\u0259l" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073341", "type":[ "adjective" ] }, "throttlehold":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a vicious, strangling, or stultifying control":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1935, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-t\u1d4al-\u02cch\u014dld" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042302", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throttleman":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": one stationed at or in immediate control of a throttle valve":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "throttle entry 2 + man":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222934", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throttling":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the act or an instance of throttling something or someone: such as":[], ": the suppression or prevention of an activity":[ "\u2026 maintains that the dramatic relaxation of credit restrictions proposed by the Central Bank will inevitably result in hyperinflation, the throttling of economic reforms and the collapse of Western confidence in the Russian economy.", "\u2014 Michael Dobbs" ], ": a decisive defeat : rout":[ "You missed an impressive, imposing 40-13 victory over Memphis \u2026 and a 61-17 throttling of FIU in the season opener.", "\u2014 The Orlando Sentinel" ], ": the activity or process of limiting the bandwidth available to users of an electronic communication systems (such as the Internet)":[ "Slowing down data speeds after a customer reaches its monthly data limit is a common practice among internet service providers and cellular carriers that's known as throttling . Users can still access the cellular network for basic services like email or web browsing, but speeds are often too slow for activities like video streaming.", "\u2014 Ryan Suppe" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-t\u1d4al-i\u014b", "\u02c8thr\u00e4t-li\u014b" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1599, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-094926" }, "throttling bar":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a bar of varying cross section that controls the flow of the liquid past the piston in some types of hydraulic recoil brakes":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "throttling (from present participle of throttle entry 1 ) + bar":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203942", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throttling governor":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an automatic governor on a throttle valve":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180650", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "through":{ "antonyms":[ "around", "over", "round", "throughout" ], "definitions":{ ": admitting free or continuous passage : direct":[ "a through road" ], ": arrived at completion or accomplishment":[ "is through with the job" ], ": because of":[ "failed through ignorance" ], ": by common descent from or relationship with":[ "related through their grandfather" ], ": by means of : by the agency of":[], ": by way of":[ "left through the door" ], ": during the entire period of":[ "all through her life" ], ": extending from one surface to another":[ "a through mortise" ], ": from beginning to end":[], ": from one end or side to the other":[], ": from the beginning to the end of":[ "the tower stood through the earthquake" ], ": going from point of origin to destination without change or reshipment":[ "a through train" ], ": initiated at and destined for points outside a local zone":[ "through traffic" ], ": into the open : out":[ "break through" ], ": of or relating to such movement":[ "a through ticket" ], ": over the whole surface or extent of : throughout":[ "homes scattered through the valley" ], ": to and including":[ "Monday through Friday" ], ": to completion, conclusion, or accomplishment":[ "see it through" ], ": to the core : completely":[ "soaked through" ], ": washed-up , finished":[], ": without stopping for : past":[ "drove through a red light" ] }, "examples":[ "Preposition", "He hit the nail through the wood.", "She looked through the binoculars.", "The bullet had gone through his hand.", "He just walked through the door.", "The security guards pushed their way through the crowd.", "She could see a figure through the fog.", "I looked through the window.", "Adverb", "Let these people go through , please.", "The nail went completely through .", "It snowed heavily, but we made it through .", "We'll never get through \u2014the mud is too deep.", "The package was shipped through to New Orleans.", "Read the essay through and tell me what you think.", "Adjective", "When the police were through with him, a taxi took him, his suitcase, the homburg funeral hat, in the other direction \u2026 \u2014 Annie Proulx , Atlantic , November 1997", "I tell him I like fanzines. This one's mad, he says, really mad. I can borrow it when he's through . \u2014 Lynne Tillman , Motion Sickness , 1991", "Today though, once experience shows on a woman's face, she's through . \u2014 Patricia Volk , New Woman , November 1990", "I'm not through yet. I have one more topic to discuss.", "If you're through using the phone, I'd like to use it next.", "Is this a through road", "The left lane is for through traffic only.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition", "The Virginia toddler's death is the most recent hot-car death in the U.S., where many states will face a risk of excessive heat through mid-July. \u2014 Dennis Romero, NBC News , 29 June 2022", "Hutchinson said Trump was upset at the size of his rally crowd and was primarily angry that staff wasn\u2019t letting through his supporters that were carrying weapons. \u2014 Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY , 28 June 2022", "Here is a look at the commitment schedule through July 8. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 28 June 2022", "The Melodic Blue tour continues in Europe through July 9. \u2014 Uvie Bikomo, Rolling Stone , 28 June 2022", "Prime Day starts on July 12 and goes through July 13, and some items are already on sale like the Hoover Pet Vacuum Cleaner that's just $132 right now. \u2014 Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022", "Fans can cast their votes at ESPN.com/ESPYS through July 17. \u2014 Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022", "Save 15 percent off sitewide during The Summer Sale at Floyd, on now through July 5. \u2014 Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics , 28 June 2022", "Open at Bal Harbour Shops through July 31, the space displays the latest hats for men and women. \u2014 Breana Crews, Town & Country , 28 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb", "Negotiations between the city and union to increase starting wages for lifeguards to $20 this season fell through . \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2022", "Each rope will take exactly one hour to burn all the way through . \u2014 The Editors Of Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022", "According to the band\u2019s social media post Monday, Fletcher died of an aortic dissection, a tear in the wall of the body\u2019s main artery that causes blood to rush through . \u2014 Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times , 28 June 2022", "Each person screened by TSA would need an average of 1.85 seats, according to Pelletier, a calculation that considers travelers who come directly to the airport and those connecting through . \u2014 Lori Aratani, Anchorage Daily News , 28 June 2022", "There are situations in which obtaining certain kinds of sensitive health information can be made more difficult for authorities to access \u2014 adding hoops to jump through , without shielding the data entirely. \u2014 Eric Boodman, STAT , 28 June 2022", "But the speed of construction depends on the subsidies coming through , added Kung, who was in Washington to attend the annual SelectUSA foreign investment summit. \u2014 Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post , 28 June 2022", "On top of those, Ilott qualified 11th at Barber, but spun on cold tires midway through and finished up 25th. \u2014 Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star , 28 June 2022", "In his new collection exclusive to Bergdorf Goodman, that fearlessness wore a stunning couture-street fusion, just one of the dualities that carried through . \u2014 Bridget Foley, Town & Country , 28 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "But the committee will attempt to place the story of the violence at the Capitol in the context of a broader, multi-tentacled plot to overturn the results of Joe Biden\u2019s electoral victory, with Trump\u2019s involvement serving as the through line. \u2014 Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey And Amy Gardner, Anchorage Daily News , 6 June 2022", "In the 37th minute, Weaver won a physical battle to get ahead to a through ball from Christine Sinclair, but her shot was saved. \u2014 oregonlive , 21 May 2022", "Though Leto is known to be very selective about his roles, the through line for those selections is difficult to decipher. \u2014 Lauren Larson, Men's Health , 21 Mar. 2022", "Speed Gregory secured his fourth goal of the game, extending the lead to three as Gilbert North was unable to contain the through ball. \u2014 Ian Garcia, The Arizona Republic , 19 Feb. 2022", "This idea of solving a puzzle\u2014playing games, uncovering secrets\u2014is a through line in both your songs and your novels. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 24 Apr. 2022", "The ingredient arnica is also used as a through line in each of the products to tie them all together beautifully. \u2014 Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR , 18 Apr. 2022", "The visual language of hair is connective, a through line that anchors disparate POVs to a shared reality. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 28 Mar. 2022", "Smith also narrates the playlist with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and a through line of love for the Black women who shape it. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Preposition", "before the 13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thurh, thruh, through , from Old English thurh ; akin to Old High German durh through, Latin trans across, beyond, Sanskrit tarati he crosses over":"Preposition, Adverb, and Adjective" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "amid", "amidst", "among", "amongst", "mid", "midst" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-181741", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "preposition" ] }, "through an interpreter":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": by the method of being translated by an interpreter":[ "He gave his statement to the police through an interpreter ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104712", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "through and through":{ "antonyms":[ "half", "halfway", "incompletely", "part", "partially", "partly" ], "definitions":{ ": in every way : thoroughly":[] }, "examples":[ "I know him through and through , and he would never do such a cowardly thing.", "those UFO claims were examined through and through and were found to be completely bogus", "Recent Examples on the Web", "But despite that social-media-powered on-ramp, Benjamin is a musician through and through , with a hand in every part of the recording process. \u2014 Ellise Shafer, Variety , 10 June 2022", "Pulisic had put another teammate in the sweet spot, this time with a debut goal, his leadership shining through and through . \u2014 Sara Tidwell, The Enquirer , 2 June 2022", "Representing your culture is one beautiful thing and Jhene Aiko, Yeek and Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast have been able to do so through and through . \u2014 James Dinh, Billboard , 10 May 2022", "Just a super fun movie with a great story through and through . \u2014 Evan Romano, Men's Health , 5 May 2022", "Episodes 4 and 5 are certainly highlights of the entire season, although Isaac shined through and through since the beginning. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 4 May 2022", "Both, however, are academics through and through \u2014 Collins has spent decades at NIH, and Lander spent nearly two decades at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. \u2014 Lev Facher, STAT , 25 Mar. 2022", "Talley was a fashion journalist through and through , having contributed to titles like W, Women's Wear Daily, The New York Times, and Interview Magazine. \u2014 Christopher Rosa, Glamour , 19 Jan. 2022", "The fact that this came from that one weird specific is comedy gold, through and through . \u2014 Luke Kelly-clyne And Graham Techler, Vulture , 30 Oct. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "all", "all of", "all over", "altogether", "clean", "completely", "dead", "enough", "entire", "entirely", "even", "exactly", "fast", "flat", "full", "fully", "heartily", "out", "perfectly", "plumb", "quite", "soundly", "thoroughly", "totally", "utterly", "well", "wholly", "wide" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070332", "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "through girder bridge":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a girder bridge in which the traffic passes between the girders":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-024940", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "through line":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a common or consistent element or theme shared by items in a series or by parts of a whole":[ "But Kent's latest nonetheless reveals a fascinating through line in her work, which centers on, as she puts it, \"disrespect for the feminine\"\u2014and the inciting power of female rage.", "\u2014 Rachel Handler", "Vang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, and came to the United States in the late 1980s. For him and his family, food was the throughline keeping them connected to their culture, wherever they were.", "\u2014 Sharyn Jackson", "Perverse moments like these are a throughline in Decker's work. The Texas native specializes in \"bad\" desires\u2014awkward wants that tend to go unexpressed, or which otherwise seem too compromising to confess even to oneself.", "\u2014 K. Austin Collins", "Unlike Tokyo's great shopping thoroughfares, which have a certain logical through-line (if not aesthetic, at least socioeconomic), Osaka's arcades are mismatched, high-low jumbles of retail diversions.", "\u2014 Simon Dumenco" ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1936, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-081116", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "through rate":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a single transportation rate on an interline haul made up of two or more separately established rates":[], ": joint rate":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085835", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "through retort":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a retort (as used for the distillation of mercury from cinnabar or for producing coal gas) with doors or mouthpieces at both ends that are closed during distillation":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214406", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "through shake":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a crack or fissure in timber that extends from side to side, edge to edge, or side to edge":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080718", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throughfall":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": rainfall in a forest area that is not intercepted by the crown canopy and reaches the forest floor":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134856", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throughfare":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": thoroughfare":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "by contraction":"" }, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-035831", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throughgoing":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": energetic":[], ": examination , overhauling":[], ": passing or extending all the way through":[], ": reprimand":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{ "through entry 2 + going , gerund of go":"Noun", "through entry 2 + going , present participle of go":"Adjective" }, "pronounciation":[ "\"" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054439", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] }, "throughither":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": in confusion : promiscuously":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "circa 1522, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "through entry 1 + other":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc-(\u0259-)t\u035fh\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015521", "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "throughly":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": in a thorough manner":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc-l\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060433", "type":[ "adverb" ] }, "throughout":{ "antonyms":[ "around", "over", "round", "through" ], "definitions":{ ": all the way from one end to the other of : in or to every part of":[ "cities throughout the United States" ], ": during the whole course or period of":[ "troubled her throughout her life" ], ": during the whole time or action : from beginning to end":[ "remained loyal throughout" ], ": in or to every part : everywhere":[ "of one color throughout" ] }, "examples":[ "Preposition", "The company has stores throughout the United States and Canada.", "She has traveled throughout the world.", "His supporters remained loyal throughout his difficulties.", "Throughout her life, she has suffered with the disease.", "It rained throughout the day.", "Adverb", "The house is painted white throughout .", "The house has wood floors throughout .", "He had a difficult year, but his supporters remained loyal throughout .", "Recent Examples on the Web: Preposition", "Corey Graves was tremendous throughout this match as Carmella's cheerleader. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 3 July 2022", "Be on the lookout for more Summer of KidsPost throughout the summer and consider bringing KidsPost along for your vacation or staycation. \u2014 Haben Kelati, Washington Post , 3 July 2022", "That love of speed and soaring is evident throughout Top Gun: Maverick. \u2014 Allison Adato, PEOPLE.com , 3 July 2022", "Large national firms like Wildfire Defense Systems are busy throughout the year. \u2014 Andrea Changstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 2 July 2022", "Cowan was part of a four-man robbery crew that, according to Union-Tribune stories from the time, may have been responsible for 65 restaurant holdups in 1997 and 1998 throughout San Diego County, with a few in Riverside County. \u2014 Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune , 2 July 2022", "Independence Day will be celebrated under a red flag warning, which will be in effect across much of western Utah throughout the holiday weekend, according to the National Weather Service. \u2014 Daedan Olander, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 July 2022", "Creator empowerment was the connecting thread throughout much of Meta\u2019s messaging at the 12th annual VidCon. \u2014 Beatrice Hazelhurst, Rolling Stone , 1 July 2022", "The iPhone has been a strong seller throughout the pandemic, with the iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13 selling incredibly well in the past few years. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 1 July 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb", "And yet the Giants came away with a 12-10 win in the back-and-forth scorefest, continuing to add on throughout , bucking their recent trend of managing little or nothing late. \u2014 Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle , 21 June 2022", "Netflix's take on the classic Austen tale is Fleabag meets empire waistlines; throughout , Anne exchanges knowing, tongue-in-cheek glances with the camera, breaking the fourth wall to wink at feelings of incredulity or schadenfreude. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 15 June 2022", "The plans call for a classical look that includes Roman columns throughout . \u2014 Renata Cl\u00f3, The Arizona Republic , 10 June 2022", "Keep your core engaged, your shoulders off the floor, and your lower back on the floor throughout . \u2014 Brett Williams, Men's Health , 9 June 2022", "Expect to be wowed by a newly green-hued iteration of the grand entry\u2019s original double staircase, as well as the mix of antiques and contemporary art throughout . \u2014 Andrew Sessa, Robb Report , 7 June 2022", "The animation is also pretty spectacular throughout , with the mecha combat being rather impressive. \u2014 Ollie Barder, Forbes , 6 June 2022", "The frenetic action was back-and-forth throughout , as neither team led by more than two possessions until Gobert\u2019s pair of free throws pushed the Jazz\u2019s advantage to seven just before halftime. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Apr. 2022", "Multiple chairs and benches are spread throughout so that the views from all angles can be enjoyed in different ways, depending on where the sun hits at any particular time of day. \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 26 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adverb" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "thr\u00fc-\u02c8au\u0307t" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "about", "across", "around", "over", "round", "through" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015821", "type":[ "adverb", "preposition" ] }, "throughput":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": the amount of something (such as material, data, etc.) that passes through something (such as a machine or system)":[ "the throughput of a computer" ], "\u2014 compare input , output":[ "the throughput of a computer" ] }, "examples":[ "The network can handle large throughputs .", "finding ways to increase throughput", "Recent Examples on the Web", "MNOs permit vetted businesses to send much higher volumes of messages per minute\u2014almost up there with short code throughput . \u2014 Venky Balasubramanian, Forbes , 5 July 2022", "In the past couple of years, the provider with the highest throughput was Beanfield Metroconnect, located in select buildings (and powering some Wi-Fi hotspots) in Toronto. \u2014 PCMAG , 17 June 2022", "Shanghai\u2019s metro system averaged 7.7 million rides a day in 2020, according to the latest data, with an annual passenger throughput of 2.8 billion. \u2014 Reuters, NBC News , 22 May 2022", "If the throughput of Ethereum goes up and the transaction processing speed increases and becomes cheaper for users, Ethereum could recover market share from other smart contract networks. \u2014 Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes , 8 June 2022", "The company is working on operational improvements, including the addition of double drive-thru lanes at over half of its North American locations to expedite throughput , for instance. \u2014 Alicia Kelso, Forbes , 4 May 2022", "Bitcoin's transaction throughput is only about 7 per second, compared to Ethereum's 30 per second. \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022", "Committing to no-code automation means scaling the number, size and throughput of workflows. \u2014 Eoin Hinchy, Forbes , 8 Mar. 2022", "Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, trade from eastern Ukraine passing through the Azov Sea had collapsed, with port throughput at Mariupol, a port near separatist areas as well as steel and grain producers, halving between 2013 and 2019. \u2014 Aurora Almendral, Quartz , 24 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1884, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc-\u02ccpu\u0307t" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110954", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throughs":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":[ "Definition of throughs plural of through" ], "examples":[], "first_known_use":[], "history_and_etymology":[], "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-002931", "type":[] }, "throw":{ "antonyms":[ "adventure", "chance", "crapshoot", "enterprise", "flier", "flyer", "flutter", "gamble", "speculation", "venture" ], "definitions":{ ": a light coverlet (as for a bed)":[], ": a method of throwing an opponent in wrestling or judo":[], ": a woman's scarf or light wrap":[], ": an act of throwing , hurling, or flinging":[], ": an act of throwing dice":[], ": an undertaking involving chance or danger : risk , venture":[], ": build , construct":[ "threw a pontoon bridge over the river" ], ": cast , hurl":[], ": deposit sense 2b":[ "the wine throws sediment" ], ": for each one : apiece":[ "copies are to be sold at $5 a throw", "\u2014 Harvey Breit" ], ": pitch sense 6b":[ "threw a no-hitter" ], ": roll sense 1a":[ "throw a bowling ball" ], ": the amount of vertical displacement produced by a geologic fault":[], ": the distance a missile may be thrown or light rays may be projected":[], ": the extreme movement given to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, or eccentric : stroke":[], ": the length of the radius of a crank or the virtual crank radius of an eccentric or cam":[], ": the number thrown with a cast of dice":[], ": to bring forth":[ "throws a good crop" ], ": to bring into casual association":[ "different kinds of people are thrown together", "\u2014 Richard Sennett" ], ": to bring to bear : exert":[ "threw all his efforts into the boy's defense", "throw their weight behind the proposal" ], ": to cause to fall":[ "threw his opponent" ], ": to cause to fall off : unseat":[ "the horse threw its rider" ], ": to deliver (a blow) in or as if in boxing":[], ": to discourage especially through pessimism or indifference":[], ": to drive or impel violently : dash":[ "the ship was thrown on a reef" ], ": to exercise influence or authority especially to an excessive degree or in an objectionable manner":[], ": to fling (oneself) precipitately":[ "threw herself down on the sofa" ], ": to form or shape on a potter's wheel":[], ": to get the better of : overcome":[ "the problem didn't throw her" ], ": to give birth to":[ "threw large litters" ], ": to give by way of entertainment":[ "throw a party" ], ": to give up : abandon":[], ": to indulge in : give way to":[ "threw a temper tantrum" ], ": to leave unprotected against fierce opposition or attack":[], ": to lose intentionally":[ "throw a game" ], ": to make (oneself) dependent : commit (oneself) for help, support, or protection":[ "threw himself on the mercy of the court" ], ": to make a cast of (dice or a specified number on dice)":[], ": to perform (something, such as a stunt) successfully":[ "throwing tricks on a skateboard" ], ": to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm":[ "throw a baseball" ], ": to propel through the air in any manner":[ "a rifle that can throw a bullet a mile" ], ": to put (an automobile) in a different gear especially quickly or suddenly":[ "he threw the car into reverse" ], ": to put in a particular position or condition":[ "threw her arms around him", "thrown into chaos", "threw him into prison" ], ": to put on or off hastily or carelessly":[ "threw on a coat" ], ": to put together in a hurried and usually careless manner":[ "a bookshelf hastily thrown together" ], ": to spend large sums of money on or for especially recklessly or ineffectively":[ "trying to solve problems by throwing money at them" ], ": to twist two or more filaments of into a thread or yarn":[] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "She threw the ball to first base.", "We threw our hats in the air at the end of the ceremony.", "Let's see how far you can throw .", "You throw like a wimp.", "She threw her coat on the bed.", "Don't throw your trash on the ground. Throw it in the trash can.", "The wrestler threw his opponent to the mat.", "The crash threw the driver from the car.", "She was thrown from the horse.", "The storm threw the boat against a reef.", "Noun", "The quarterback made a perfect throw .", "He lost all his winnings on his last throw .", "a discus throw of 200 feet", "It's a long throw from center field to home plate.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Even double letters are often enough to throw me off my game. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 2 July 2022", "Consumers who have purchased these products are urged to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 1 July 2022", "So now Jonna basically has permission from all three women to throw them in. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022", "Rogers Waters is ready to throw it all the way back to 1979. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 22 June 2022", "When Smith and his friends got caught, officials with the show planned to throw them out until McQueen found out and intervened. \u2014 Lee Escobedo, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "There\u2019s nothing like a where-did-this-come-from type of skin rash to throw you for a loop. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 7 June 2022", "However, people could have bought the berries and froze and, if so, they are advised to throw them away. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 31 May 2022", "\u00c9tienne threatens to throw himself off a balcony if Stella does not sleep with him. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 24 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "In his lone college season Wesley shot 40.4% overall, 30% from behind the three-point line and 65.7% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022", "Chicago also had the edge on the free- throw line, making 15 of 17 (88.2%) shots there. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022", "Jonquel Jones was 7-of-9 from the free- throw line while Brionna Jones was perfect with four attempts. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022", "Davis is a tenacious defender and talented midrange scorer who also gets to the free- throw line at a high rate. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022", "Branham certainly checks the shooting box, hitting 49.8% from the field, 41.6% from 3-point range and 83.3% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 18 May 2022", "Teams would foul him freely, especially late in close games, forcing him to the free- throw line. \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2022", "So everyone gathers around right at the free- throw line. \u2014 Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022", "On this night, the Warriors also made 53% of their shots beyond the arc and 91% at the free- throw line. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawen, throwen to cause to twist, throw, from Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn; akin to Old High German dr\u0101en to turn, Latin terere to rub, Greek tribein to rub, tetrainein to bore, pierce":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for throw Verb throw , cast , toss , fling , hurl , pitch , sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force. throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm. can throw a fastball and a curve cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering. cast it to the winds toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion. tossed the coat on the bed fling stresses a violent throwing. flung the ring back in his face hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight. hurled himself at the intruder pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target. pitch horseshoes sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim. slung the bag over his shoulder", "synonyms":[ "cast", "catapult", "chuck", "dash", "fire", "fling", "heave", "hurl", "hurtle", "launch", "lob", "loft", "peg", "pelt", "pitch", "sling", "toss" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105549", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throw (on)":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to cause (something) to work by moving a switch":[ "He threw on the lights." ], ": to quickly put on (a piece of clothing)":[ "She threw on her coat and ran out the door.", "Let me throw some shoes on ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003943", "type":[ "phrasal verb" ] }, "throw (someone) a bone":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests":[ "The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113834", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw (someone) a curve/curveball":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to present (someone) with a difficult and unexpected problem, situation, question, etc.":[ "The reporter threw the candidate a curve by asking about his past drug use.", "Recently, Mother Nature threw us a curveball in the form of a 50-degree day in the middle of January.", "\u2014 Molly Cavanaugh", "The sea will throw you a lot of curves , so versatile navigation gear is a must.", "\u2014 Advertisement" ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112335", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw (someone) for a loss":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to cause (someone) to be very amazed, confused, or shocked":[ "Recent revelations have thrown me for a loss ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115458", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw (something) out the window":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to stop using or thinking about (something)":[ "We can throw that idea out the window ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120618", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw a fit":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to express extreme anger":[ "Dad will throw a fit if he finds out.", "Don't have a fit if it doesn't turn out as you want." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-105658", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw about":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to go in a different direction : tack":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111109", "type":[ "intransitive verb" ] }, "throw away":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": designed to be thrown away : disposable":[ "throwaway containers" ], ": written or spoken (as in a play) in a low-key or unemphatic manner":[ "throwaway lines" ], ": nonchalant , casual":[], ": marked by a tendency to discard things : overly wasteful":[ "a throwaway society" ], ": one that is or is designed to be thrown away: such as":[], ": a free handbill or circular":[], ": something made or done without care or interest":[], ": a child who has been forced to leave home or who has run away from indifferent or hostile parents":[], ": to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary":[], ": discard sense 2b":[], ": to use in a foolish or wasteful manner : squander":[], ": to fail to take advantage of : waste":[ "throw away an opportunity" ], ": to make (something, such as a line in a play) unemphatic by casual delivery":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101" ], "synonyms":[ "cashier", "cast (off)", "chuck", "deep-six", "discard", "ditch", "dump", "eighty-six", "86", "exorcise", "exorcize", "fling (off ", "jettison", "junk", "lay by", "lose", "pitch", "reject", "scrap", "shed", "shuck (off)", "slough (off)", "sluff (off)", "throw out", "toss", "unload" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Verb", "I should throw away that torn shirt.", "if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "Clever plotting\u2014an early, seemingly throwaway scene in which F\u00e9lix does some goofy martial-arts training turns out to be critical\u2014and inventive character details enhance the wicked fun. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "But while most launches over the past 60 years have involved throwaway launch vehicles, humanity should be moving toward sustainability, Jah says. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022", "However, through the ruse, a funny, throwaway moment in Return of the Jedi is better explained. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Jan. 2022", "There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic, perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021", "Name tags were throwaway stickers, not the usual recyclable kind. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 July 2021", "The characters in Snake Eyes always seem to be in climax-speak mode; even the most throwaway lines are steeped in portent. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 23 July 2021", "That applies to the casting as well, which includes squandering Sacha Baron Cohen in a throwaway role. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 17 June 2021", "Malawi's plastic waste will require more than 100 years to decompose, but sustained manufacturing of throwaway plastics may lengthen this projection. \u2014 Nimi Princewill, CNN , 15 June 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The real creative triumph is in the throwaway bits\u2014the screenwriting marginalia. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "The long touchdown pass was a back breaker for Miami, which forced Young into a throwaway from his own end zone on the previous play. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 4 Sep. 2021", "The title does not refer to Julie, by the way, but is a throwaway , somewhat facetious, reference to that other lover, Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), the one who doesn\u2019t think Julie is sensible. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2022", "The one-two punch of a more serious/important mid-credits scene and a more lighthearted/ throwaway post-credits scene has been the pattern for Marvel films lately. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 May 2022", "Such falsehoods aside, the most interesting aspect of Lavrov's polemic relates to his throwaway comments about Zelensky. \u2014 Anthony D. Kauders, CNN , 5 May 2022", "Mary considered the option for her junior prom (where, in a perfect embodiment of the Gen Z paradox, one classmate showed up in a bin bag to protest throwaway fashion, while another spent hundreds on a dress unlikely ever to be worn again). \u2014 Fedora Abu, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022", "For Gen Z customers, this trend was even more pronounced\u201484% of them used throwaway emails\u2014but at 59% the rate was also high for those 46 years and older. \u2014 Tiffany Ap, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022", "Environmentalists say industry groups are exaggerating the potential price tag while minimizing the costs their throwaway products impose. \u2014 Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 Apr. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172735" }, "throw down":{ "antonyms":[ "lift", "pick up", "raise" ], "definitions":{ ": precipitate":[], ": to cast off : discard":[], ": to cause to fall : overthrow":[], ": to make (a slam dunk) with exceptional force":[] }, "examples":[ "throw down the gun, and put your hands up" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "depress", "drop", "lower", "throw" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225026", "type":[ "verb" ] }, "throw down the gauntlet":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to say or show that one is ready to fight, argue, or compete with someone : to challenge someone":[ "The company threw down the gauntlet and told the union that this offer for a contract was final." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113125", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw into disorder":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to put into a state of confusion : to disrupt or upset":[ "The filing system was thrown into disorder when the computer program malfunctioned." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112704", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw off":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": distract , divert":[ "dogs thrown off by a false scent" ], ": earn , generate":[ "an investment that throws off a sizable income" ], ": emit , give off":[ "stacks throwing off plumes of smoke" ], ": to begin hunting":[], ": to cast off often in a hurried or vigorous manner : abandon":[ "threw off all restraint" ], ": to cause to depart from an expected or desired course":[ "mistakes threw his calculations off a bit" ], ": to cause to make a mistake : mislead":[], ": to free oneself from : get rid of":[ "threw off his inhibitions" ], ": to make derogatory comments":[], ": to produce in an offhand manner : execute with speed or facility":[ "some little \u2026 tune that the composer had thrown off", "\u2014 James Hilton" ] }, "examples":[ "the sudden noise just threw me off completely, and I missed my shot", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Willis said Civale could throw off the mound this weekend when the team is in Baltimore. \u2014 Paul Hoynes, cleveland , 1 June 2022", "Milroe got the throw off in time, perhaps with some help from Robinson having to intentionally miss the quarterback. \u2014 Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al , 18 Apr. 2022", "But the third hour Today show coanchor didn\u2019t let this setback throw off his commitment to movement. \u2014 Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping , 22 Jan. 2022", "Woodruff played catch Friday and is scheduled to throw off a mound to a catcher on Saturday, which is progress. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel , 10 June 2022", "Treinen will throw off a mound Wednesday, in hopes of returning to game action as soon as Friday. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022", "Wearing a sports bra that pinches uncomfortably or a shirt that leaves you chafing and drowning in sweat can ruin a run, and that can throw off an entire day. \u2014 Sarah Jacob, SELF , 9 Sep. 2021", "The 29-year-old threw off the mound once already and is expected to throw off the mound again at Yankee Stadium. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 2 June 2022", "Chris Sale is scheduled to throw off the mound three times this week at the team complex in Fort Myers. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1b":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "abstract", "call off", "detract", "distract", "divert" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031726", "type":[ "verb" ] }, "throw oneself into":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to begin doing or working on (something) with great energy and determination":[ "He threw himself into his music." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111828", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw oneself on the mercy of (someone)":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to beg (someone) for mercy":[ "The prisoner confessed his crimes and threw himself on the mercy of the court." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-125000", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw out":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": confuse , disconcert":[ "automobiles in line blocking the road \u2026 threw the whole schedule out", "\u2014 F. 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Roosevelt" ], ": to cause to project : extend":[], ": to cause to stand out : make prominent":[], ": to discard or lose something useful or beneficial in the process of discarding or rejecting something unwanted":[], ": to dismiss from acceptance or consideration : reject":[ "the testimony was thrown out" ], ": to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary":[], ": to give expression to : utter":[ "threw out a remark \u2026 that utterly confounded him", "\u2014 Jean Stafford" ], ": to give forth from within : emit":[], ": to leave behind : outdistance":[], ": to make a throw that enables a teammate to put out (a base runner)":[], ": to make visible or manifest : display":[ "the signal was thrown out for the \u2026 fleet to prepare for action", "\u2014 Archibald Duncan" ], ": to remove from a place, office, or employment usually in a sudden or unexpected manner":[], ": to send out":[] }, "examples":[ "the player was thrown out of the game after assaulting the ref", "would you mind if I threw out that leftover pizza that's been in the fridge for two weeks" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "banish", "boot (out)", "bounce", "cast out", "chase", "dismiss", "drum (out)", "eject", "expel", "extrude", "kick out", "oust", "out", "rout", "run off", "turf (out)", "turn out" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181756", "type":[ "verb" ] }, "throw over":{ "antonyms":[ "accept", "agree (to)", "approve" ], "definitions":{ ": to forsake despite bonds of attachment or duty":[], ": to refuse to accept : reject":[] }, "examples":[ "if the U.S. Senate throws over the treaty, the President's prestige will be in shambles" ], "first_known_use":{ "1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "balk (at)", "decline", "deselect", "disapprove", "negative", "nix", "pass", "pass up", "refuse", "reject", "reprobate", "repudiate", "spurn", "throw out", "turn down" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-193416", "type":[ "verb" ] }, "throw pillow":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a small pillow used especially as a decorative accessory":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Whether paired with a neutral sofa or jazzed up with a vibrant throw pillow or two, the piece can be styled to appeal to minimalists and maximalists. \u2014 Sarah Lyon, Washington Post , 19 May 2022", "The room reflects that with just the right amount of pink \u2014 a throw, throw pillow on a marvelous Luna Star Parchment hanging chair, a blush 8-by-10-foot Astrid rug and a couple of pink poufs. \u2014 Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 Apr. 2022", "This luxe-feeling throw pillow comes in five fall-favorite colors ready to brighten up your living space and bring the outside in. \u2014 Ariel Scotti, Better Homes & Gardens , 24 Sep. 2021", "After all, sprawling out on lush carpeting is a much more physically immersive experience than propping yourself up on a throw pillow . \u2014 Roxanne Fequiere, Vogue , 7 Mar. 2022", "This velvet throw pillow from Cost Plus World Market comes in 19 colors, has a removable insert, and more than 700 five-star ratings. \u2014 Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens , 20 Jan. 2022", "Throw in a buffalo plaid throw pillow ($14) or two and even a red pouf ($39) for extra seating. \u2014 Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens , 22 Nov. 2021", "Everett, in her lightning-bolt hoodie and tie-dye pants, sat in an armchair, clutching a throw pillow in the shape of a breast. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021", "Miulee's plaid throw pillow cover sets, which have received more than 9,000 five-star ratings, come with two cases in a variety of colors and sizes. \u2014 Jessica Leigh Mattern, PEOPLE.com , 5 Dec. 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "1926, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121318", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throw punches":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to swing one's arm and try to hit someone with one's fist":[ "I broke up the argument before they started throwing punches ." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114943", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw rug":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a rug of such a size that several can be used in a room":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "This drying towel with a cutesy name almost looks closer to a throw rug than a simple hand cloth. \u2014 Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics , 27 May 2022", "Ideal as a throw rug or large area rug, this bohemian design looks stylish layered over existing carpet or on top of hardwood floors. \u2014 Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens , 3 Aug. 2021", "Thiels sometimes uses a large throw rug , then layers it with a smaller, brighter rug for a mix of color and texture. \u2014 Chris Bynum, NOLA.com , 13 Aug. 2020", "And on our trip in February, the desert was predictably dusty and muted, but the flowers were everywhere \u2014 less of a carpet, more a series of throw rugs . \u2014 Danielle Pergament, New York Times , 16 Mar. 2020", "Trip hazards: \u00b7 Don\u2019t allow extension cords to stretch across walkways. \u00b7 Get rid of throw rugs that can be a tripping hazard, or stick rugs securely to the floor with double-sided tape. \u2014 Julie Washington, cleveland , 22 Dec. 2019", "Save old, clean scraps of carpeting, along with clean throw rugs , scraps of cloth, blankets and towels. \u2014 Heloise, Washington Post , 14 Dec. 2019", "Dear Heloise: My kitten was not trained and was starting to use my throw rug as a litter box. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Nov. 2019", "Keep pathways and rooms clear \u2014 no throw rugs , spills or clutter. \u2014 Mort Mazor, sun-sentinel.com , 26 July 2019" ], "first_known_use":{ "1909, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114717", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throw the book at":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to punish (someone) as severely as possible":[ "The judge threatened to throw the book at him if he committed another offense." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-113911", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw up":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": give up , quit":[ "the urge \u2026 to throw up all intellectual work", "\u2014 Norman Mailer" ], ": to admit defeat":[ "in the end throws up his hands in despair", "\u2014 Frank Conroy" ], ": to bring forth : produce":[], ": to build hurriedly":[ "new houses thrown up almost overnight" ], ": to make distinct especially by contrast : cause to stand out":[], ": to mention repeatedly by way of reproach":[], ": to raise quickly":[], ": vomit":[] }, "examples":[ "she must have eaten something that didn't agree with her because she threw up right after dinner", "when the townspeople realized that the President's motorcade would be coming through on its way to the conference, they threw up a hasty \u201cWelcome\u201d sign", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Builders scraped away spongy peat and replaced it with gravel to throw up buildings and parking lots. \u2014 Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News , 7 May 2022", "The right-hander can throw up to six pitches but primarily features a four-seam fastball/slider combo. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 14 June 2022", "In a May 19 loss to Cincinnati, Stephan\u2019s errant throw up the first base line allowed Matt Reynolds to score what turned out to be the game-winning run from second base on a grounder by Albert Almora. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 3 June 2022", "Memorial Day weekend kicks off what is expected to be a busy summer travel season, but high gas prices, inflation and airfare could throw up roadblocks. \u2014 Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune , 27 May 2022", "In the face of all this uncertainty, tech platforms could simply throw up their hands and stop offering services in Texas altogether. \u2014 Brian Fung, CNN , 13 May 2022", "Any new venture involves risk, and transforming into a sustainable business model will inevitably throw up obstacles. \u2014 Sjoerd Fauser, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022", "First, Donovan ran down what could have been a double into the corner by Cain immediately following Narv\u00e1ez's two-bagger, prompting Cain to throw up his hands in frustration in the aftermath. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 29 May 2022", "The suspects allegedly held the child down for seven hours while forcing the child to throw up in an attempt to rid the child of the evil spirit, the news station reported. \u2014 Minyvonne Burke, NBC News , 13 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u014d-\u02c8\u0259p" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "barf", "gag", "heave", "hurl", "puke", "retch", "spew", "spit up", "upchuck", "vomit" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090241", "type":[ "intransitive verb", "verb" ] }, "throw weight":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": the maximum payload of an ICBM":[] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Maryanne had an extra vote, giving her some extra throw weight , and saw Omar as a clear and present danger. \u2014 al , 19 May 2022", "In addition to condemning voting proposals in dozens of states, activists wantcompanies to testify in front of legislators, withdraw financial support from lawmakers who support them, and throw weight behind federal election reform legislation. \u2014 Author: Hannah Denham, Jena Mcgregor, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Apr. 2021", "In addition to condemning voting proposals in dozens of states, activists want companies to testify in front of legislators, withdraw financial support from lawmakers who support them, and throw weight behind federal election reform legislation. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2021", "And the throw weight of a warhead of a mobile missile", "Past warfare was described primarily by tonnage and throw weights , because precision was almost nonexistent. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 29 July 2018", "During the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia often negotiated over throw weight , the payload that a missile carries\u2014power over precision. \u2014 Andy Kessler, WSJ , 29 July 2018", "Only in desperation would a heavy cruiser such as the San Francisco engage with a battleship, whose 14-inch guns had five times the throw weight of the U.S. ship\u2019s. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 25 May 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "1966, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053019", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "throw-in":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a throw from an outfielder to the infield in baseball":[], ": a throw made from the touchline in soccer to put the ball back in play after it has gone into touch":[], ": an act or instance of throwing a ball in: such as":[], ": an inbounds pass in basketball":[], ": distribute sense 3b":[], ": engage":[ "throw in the clutch" ], ": something added as a bonus or supplement":[], ": to abandon a struggle or contest : acknowledge defeat : give up":[], ": to add as a gratuity or supplement":[], ": to enter into association or partnership : join":[ "agrees to throw in with a crooked ex-cop", "\u2014 Newsweek" ], ": to introduce or interject in the course of something : contribute":[ "they throw in some \u2026 sound effects on several songs", "\u2014 Tom Phillips" ] }, "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Left-hander Dallas Keuchel is scheduled to throw in an Arizona Complex League game on Monday night, his first outing since signing a minor league deal with the Diamondbacks last week. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 12 June 2022", "Don't think that the Z is ready to throw in the towel, though. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022", "At one point, Fatou was ready to throw in the towel. \u2014 Bora, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022", "Instead, Home Depot uses the pro centers to stock large quantities of the big items that a builder needs, but also the smaller things that naturally go with the order: For an order of doors, for example, throw in hinges and locks. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 9 June 2022", "Make sure to throw in an order of fries, though, for the trouble. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 3 May 2022", "With Cooper\u2019s release inching closer, to whom will Prescott throw in 2022", "This being a homecoming gig, Vedder might also throw in a few surprises. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Feb. 2022", "Oh, yes, throw in another few grand for last-minute parking. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1678, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb", "1864, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-\u02ccin" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bonus", "cumshaw", "dividend", "donative", "extra", "gratuity", "gravy", "gravy train", "lagniappe", "perk", "perquisite", "tip" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-221830", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throw/bring into question":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to cause doubts about (something)":[ "The fact that he plagiarized throws/brings into question the authenticity of his earlier writings." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-111544", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw/fling/cast caution to the wind":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to stop being careful and do something that is dangerous or that might result in failure":[ "After thinking about it for years, he finally threw/flung/cast caution to the wind , quit his job, and started his own company." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121006", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw/hurl/toss a monkey wrench into":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to damage or change (something) in a way that ruins it or prevents it from working properly":[ "The storm threw a monkey wrench into their plans for a picnic." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112240", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw/knock (someone) off (his/her) stride":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to cause (someone) to be unable to continue walking or running steadily.":[ "Another runner bumped into him and threw/knocked him off his stride .", "She was surprised and thrown off stride by the unexpected question." ], "often used figuratively":[ "Another runner bumped into him and threw/knocked him off his stride .", "She was surprised and thrown off stride by the unexpected question." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-114245", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "throw/toss one's hat in/into the ring":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to announce that one is 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unemphatic by casual delivery":[], ": to use in a foolish or wasteful manner : squander":[], ": written or spoken (as in a play) in a low-key or unemphatic manner":[ "throwaway lines" ] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "I should throw away that torn shirt.", "if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "Clever plotting\u2014an early, seemingly throwaway scene in which F\u00e9lix does some goofy martial-arts training turns out to be critical\u2014and inventive character details enhance the wicked fun. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "But while most launches over the past 60 years have involved throwaway launch vehicles, humanity should be moving toward sustainability, Jah says. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022", "However, through the ruse, a funny, throwaway moment in Return of the Jedi is better explained. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Jan. 2022", "There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic, perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021", "Name tags were throwaway stickers, not the usual recyclable kind. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 July 2021", "The characters in Snake Eyes always seem to be in climax-speak mode; even the most throwaway lines are steeped in portent. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 23 July 2021", "That applies to the casting as well, which includes squandering Sacha Baron Cohen in a throwaway role. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 17 June 2021", "Malawi's plastic waste will require more than 100 years to decompose, but sustained manufacturing of throwaway plastics may lengthen this projection. \u2014 Nimi Princewill, CNN , 15 June 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The real creative triumph is in the throwaway bits\u2014the screenwriting marginalia. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "The long touchdown pass was a back breaker for Miami, which forced Young into a throwaway from his own end zone on the previous play. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 4 Sep. 2021", "The title does not refer to Julie, by the way, but is a throwaway , somewhat facetious, reference to that other lover, Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), the one who doesn\u2019t think Julie is sensible. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2022", "The one-two punch of a more serious/important mid-credits scene and a more lighthearted/ throwaway post-credits scene has been the pattern for Marvel films lately. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 May 2022", "Such falsehoods aside, the most interesting aspect of Lavrov's polemic relates to his throwaway comments about Zelensky. \u2014 Anthony D. Kauders, CNN , 5 May 2022", "Mary considered the option for her junior prom (where, in a perfect embodiment of the Gen Z paradox, one classmate showed up in a bin bag to protest throwaway fashion, while another spent hundreds on a dress unlikely ever to be worn again). \u2014 Fedora Abu, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022", "For Gen Z customers, this trend was even more pronounced\u201484% of them used throwaway emails\u2014but at 59% the rate was also high for those 46 years and older. \u2014 Tiffany Ap, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022", "Environmentalists say industry groups are exaggerating the potential price tag while minimizing the costs their throwaway products impose. \u2014 Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 Apr. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb", "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "cashier", "cast (off)", "chuck", "deep-six", "discard", "ditch", "dump", "eighty-six", "86", "exorcise", "exorcize", "fling (off ", "jettison", "junk", "lay by", "lose", "pitch", "reject", "scrap", "shed", "shuck (off)", "slough (off)", "sluff (off)", "throw out", "toss", "unload" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130759", "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "throwing":{ "antonyms":[ "adventure", "chance", "crapshoot", "enterprise", "flier", "flyer", "flutter", "gamble", "speculation", "venture" ], "definitions":{ ": a light coverlet (as for a bed)":[], ": a method of throwing an opponent in wrestling or judo":[], ": a woman's scarf or light wrap":[], ": an act of throwing , hurling, or flinging":[], ": an act of throwing dice":[], ": an undertaking involving chance or danger : risk , venture":[], ": build , construct":[ "threw a pontoon bridge over the river" ], ": cast , hurl":[], ": deposit sense 2b":[ "the wine throws sediment" ], ": for each one : apiece":[ "copies are to be sold at $5 a throw", "\u2014 Harvey Breit" ], ": pitch sense 6b":[ "threw a no-hitter" ], ": roll sense 1a":[ "throw a bowling ball" ], ": the amount of vertical displacement produced by a geologic fault":[], ": the distance a missile may be thrown or light rays may be projected":[], ": the extreme movement given to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, or eccentric : stroke":[], ": the length of the radius of a crank or the virtual crank radius of an eccentric or cam":[], ": the number thrown with a cast of dice":[], ": to bring forth":[ "throws a good crop" ], ": to bring into casual association":[ "different kinds of people are thrown together", "\u2014 Richard Sennett" ], ": to bring to bear : exert":[ "threw all his efforts into the boy's defense", "throw their weight behind the proposal" ], ": to cause to fall":[ "threw his opponent" ], ": to cause to fall off : unseat":[ "the horse threw its rider" ], ": to deliver (a blow) in or as if in boxing":[], ": to discourage especially through pessimism or indifference":[], ": to drive or impel violently : dash":[ "the ship was thrown on a reef" ], ": to exercise influence or authority especially to an excessive degree or in an objectionable manner":[], ": to fling (oneself) precipitately":[ "threw herself down on the sofa" ], ": to form or shape on a potter's wheel":[], ": to get the better of : overcome":[ "the problem didn't throw her" ], ": to give birth to":[ "threw large litters" ], ": to give by way of entertainment":[ "throw a party" ], ": to give up : abandon":[], ": to indulge in : give way to":[ "threw a temper tantrum" ], ": to leave unprotected against fierce opposition or attack":[], ": to lose intentionally":[ "throw a game" ], ": to make (oneself) dependent : commit (oneself) for help, support, or protection":[ "threw himself on the mercy of the court" ], ": to make a cast of (dice or a specified number on dice)":[], ": to perform (something, such as a stunt) successfully":[ "throwing tricks on a skateboard" ], ": to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm":[ "throw a baseball" ], ": to propel through the air in any manner":[ "a rifle that can throw a bullet a mile" ], ": to put (an automobile) in a different gear especially quickly or suddenly":[ "he threw the car into reverse" ], ": to put in a particular position or condition":[ "threw her arms around him", "thrown into chaos", "threw him into prison" ], ": to put on or off hastily or carelessly":[ "threw on a coat" ], ": to put together in a hurried and usually careless manner":[ "a bookshelf hastily thrown together" ], ": to spend large sums of money on or for especially recklessly or ineffectively":[ "trying to solve problems by throwing money at them" ], ": to twist two or more filaments of into a thread or yarn":[] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "She threw the ball to first base.", "We threw our hats in the air at the end of the ceremony.", "Let's see how far you can throw .", "You throw like a wimp.", "She threw her coat on the bed.", "Don't throw your trash on the ground. Throw it in the trash can.", "The wrestler threw his opponent to the mat.", "The crash threw the driver from the car.", "She was thrown from the horse.", "The storm threw the boat against a reef.", "Noun", "The quarterback made a perfect throw .", "He lost all his winnings on his last throw .", "a discus throw of 200 feet", "It's a long throw from center field to home plate.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Even double letters are often enough to throw me off my game. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 2 July 2022", "Consumers who have purchased these products are urged to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 1 July 2022", "So now Jonna basically has permission from all three women to throw them in. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022", "Rogers Waters is ready to throw it all the way back to 1979. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 22 June 2022", "When Smith and his friends got caught, officials with the show planned to throw them out until McQueen found out and intervened. \u2014 Lee Escobedo, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "There\u2019s nothing like a where-did-this-come-from type of skin rash to throw you for a loop. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 7 June 2022", "However, people could have bought the berries and froze and, if so, they are advised to throw them away. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 31 May 2022", "\u00c9tienne threatens to throw himself off a balcony if Stella does not sleep with him. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 24 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "In his lone college season Wesley shot 40.4% overall, 30% from behind the three-point line and 65.7% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022", "Chicago also had the edge on the free- throw line, making 15 of 17 (88.2%) shots there. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022", "Jonquel Jones was 7-of-9 from the free- throw line while Brionna Jones was perfect with four attempts. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022", "Davis is a tenacious defender and talented midrange scorer who also gets to the free- throw line at a high rate. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022", "Branham certainly checks the shooting box, hitting 49.8% from the field, 41.6% from 3-point range and 83.3% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 18 May 2022", "Teams would foul him freely, especially late in close games, forcing him to the free- throw line. \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2022", "So everyone gathers around right at the free- throw line. \u2014 Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022", "On this night, the Warriors also made 53% of their shots beyond the arc and 91% at the free- throw line. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawen, throwen to cause to twist, throw, from Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn; akin to Old High German dr\u0101en to turn, Latin terere to rub, Greek tribein to rub, tetrainein to bore, pierce":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for throw Verb throw , cast , toss , fling , hurl , pitch , sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force. throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm. can throw a fastball and a curve cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering. cast it to the winds toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion. tossed the coat on the bed fling stresses a violent throwing. flung the ring back in his face hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight. hurled himself at the intruder pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target. pitch horseshoes sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim. slung the bag over his shoulder", "synonyms":[ "cast", "catapult", "chuck", "dash", "fire", "fling", "heave", "hurl", "hurtle", "launch", "lob", "loft", "peg", "pelt", "pitch", "sling", "toss" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110339", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "throwing away":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": designed to be thrown away : disposable":[ "throwaway containers" ], ": written or spoken (as in a play) in a low-key or unemphatic manner":[ "throwaway lines" ], ": nonchalant , casual":[], ": marked by a tendency to discard things : overly wasteful":[ "a throwaway society" ], ": one that is or is designed to be thrown away: such as":[], ": a free handbill or circular":[], ": something made or done without care or interest":[], ": a child who has been forced to leave home or who has run away from indifferent or hostile parents":[], ": to get rid of as worthless or unnecessary":[], ": discard sense 2b":[], ": to use in a foolish or wasteful manner : squander":[], ": to fail to take advantage of : waste":[ "throw away an opportunity" ], ": to make (something, such as a line in a play) unemphatic by casual delivery":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-\u0259-\u02ccw\u0101" ], "synonyms":[ "cashier", "cast (off)", "chuck", "deep-six", "discard", "ditch", "dump", "eighty-six", "86", "exorcise", "exorcize", "fling (off ", "jettison", "junk", "lay by", "lose", "pitch", "reject", "scrap", "shed", "shuck (off)", "slough (off)", "sluff (off)", "throw out", "toss", "unload" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Verb", "I should throw away that torn shirt.", "if you buy a high-end computer, you'll just be throwing away money on a bunch of features you'll never use", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "Clever plotting\u2014an early, seemingly throwaway scene in which F\u00e9lix does some goofy martial-arts training turns out to be critical\u2014and inventive character details enhance the wicked fun. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "But while most launches over the past 60 years have involved throwaway launch vehicles, humanity should be moving toward sustainability, Jah says. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 17 Mar. 2022", "However, through the ruse, a funny, throwaway moment in Return of the Jedi is better explained. \u2014 Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Jan. 2022", "There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters; each story is rich and metamorphic, perfect for breaking the monotony of winter days. \u2014 Wired Staff, Wired , 26 Nov. 2021", "Name tags were throwaway stickers, not the usual recyclable kind. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 July 2021", "The characters in Snake Eyes always seem to be in climax-speak mode; even the most throwaway lines are steeped in portent. \u2014 Bilge Ebiri, Vulture , 23 July 2021", "That applies to the casting as well, which includes squandering Sacha Baron Cohen in a throwaway role. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 17 June 2021", "Malawi's plastic waste will require more than 100 years to decompose, but sustained manufacturing of throwaway plastics may lengthen this projection. \u2014 Nimi Princewill, CNN , 15 June 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The real creative triumph is in the throwaway bits\u2014the screenwriting marginalia. \u2014 Kyle Smith, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "The long touchdown pass was a back breaker for Miami, which forced Young into a throwaway from his own end zone on the previous play. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 4 Sep. 2021", "The title does not refer to Julie, by the way, but is a throwaway , somewhat facetious, reference to that other lover, Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), the one who doesn\u2019t think Julie is sensible. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 10 Feb. 2022", "The one-two punch of a more serious/important mid-credits scene and a more lighthearted/ throwaway post-credits scene has been the pattern for Marvel films lately. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 5 May 2022", "Such falsehoods aside, the most interesting aspect of Lavrov's polemic relates to his throwaway comments about Zelensky. \u2014 Anthony D. Kauders, CNN , 5 May 2022", "Mary considered the option for her junior prom (where, in a perfect embodiment of the Gen Z paradox, one classmate showed up in a bin bag to protest throwaway fashion, while another spent hundreds on a dress unlikely ever to be worn again). \u2014 Fedora Abu, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022", "For Gen Z customers, this trend was even more pronounced\u201484% of them used throwaway emails\u2014but at 59% the rate was also high for those 46 years and older. \u2014 Tiffany Ap, Quartz , 26 Apr. 2022", "Environmentalists say industry groups are exaggerating the potential price tag while minimizing the costs their throwaway products impose. \u2014 Susanne Ruststaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 17 Apr. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective", "1886, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-201455" }, "thrown":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm":[ "throw a baseball" ], ": to propel through the air in any manner":[ "a rifle that can throw a bullet a mile" ], ": pitch sense 6b":[ "threw a no-hitter" ], ": to cause to fall":[ "threw his opponent" ], ": to cause to fall off : unseat":[ "the horse threw its rider" ], ": to get the better of : overcome":[ "the problem didn't throw her" ], ": to fling (oneself) precipitately":[ "threw herself down on the sofa" ], ": to drive or impel violently : dash":[ "the ship was thrown on a reef" ], ": to put in a particular position or condition":[ "threw her arms around him", "thrown into chaos", "threw him into prison" ], ": to put on or off hastily or carelessly":[ "threw on a coat" ], ": to bring to bear : exert":[ "threw all his efforts into the boy's defense", "throw their weight behind the proposal" ], ": build , construct":[ "threw a pontoon bridge over the river" ], ": to give by way of entertainment":[ "throw a party" ], ": to indulge in : give way to":[ "threw a temper tantrum" ], ": to lose intentionally":[ "throw a game" ], ": to form or shape on a potter's wheel":[], ": to deliver (a blow) in or as if in boxing":[], ": to make a cast of (dice or a specified number on dice)":[], ": roll sense 1a":[ "throw a bowling ball" ], ": to give up : abandon":[], ": to make (oneself) dependent : commit (oneself) for help, support, or protection":[ "threw himself on the mercy of the court" ], ": to perform (something, such as a stunt) successfully":[ "throwing tricks on a skateboard" ], ": to bring forth":[ "throws a good crop" ], ": to give birth to":[ "threw large litters" ], ": to put (an automobile) in a different gear especially quickly or suddenly":[ "he threw the car into reverse" ], ": deposit sense 2b":[ "the wine throws sediment" ], ": to twist two or more filaments of into a thread or yarn":[], ": cast , hurl":[], ": to discourage especially through pessimism or indifference":[], ": to spend large sums of money on or for especially recklessly or ineffectively":[ "trying to solve problems by throwing money at them" ], ": to exercise influence or authority especially to an excessive degree or in an objectionable manner":[], ": to leave unprotected against fierce opposition or attack":[], ": to put together in a hurried and usually careless manner":[ "a bookshelf hastily thrown together" ], ": to bring into casual association":[ "different kinds of people are thrown together", "\u2014 Richard Sennett" ], ": an act of throwing , hurling, or flinging":[], ": an act of throwing dice":[], ": the number thrown with a cast of dice":[], ": a method of throwing an opponent in wrestling or judo":[], ": the distance a missile may be thrown or light rays may be projected":[], ": a light coverlet (as for a bed)":[], ": a woman's scarf or light wrap":[], ": an undertaking involving chance or danger : risk , venture":[], ": the amount of vertical displacement produced by a geologic fault":[], ": the extreme movement given to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, or eccentric : stroke":[], ": the length of the radius of a crank or the virtual crank radius of an eccentric or cam":[], ": for each one : apiece":[ "copies are to be sold at $5 a throw", "\u2014 Harvey Breit" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonyms":[ "cast", "catapult", "chuck", "dash", "fire", "fling", "heave", "hurl", "hurtle", "launch", "lob", "loft", "peg", "pelt", "pitch", "sling", "toss" ], "antonyms":[ "adventure", "chance", "crapshoot", "enterprise", "flier", "flyer", "flutter", "gamble", "speculation", "venture" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for throw Verb throw , cast , toss , fling , hurl , pitch , sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force. throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm. can throw a fastball and a curve cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering. cast it to the winds toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion. tossed the coat on the bed fling stresses a violent throwing. flung the ring back in his face hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight. hurled himself at the intruder pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target. pitch horseshoes sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim. slung the bag over his shoulder", "examples":[ "Verb", "She threw the ball to first base.", "We threw our hats in the air at the end of the ceremony.", "Let's see how far you can throw .", "You throw like a wimp.", "She threw her coat on the bed.", "Don't throw your trash on the ground. Throw it in the trash can.", "The wrestler threw his opponent to the mat.", "The crash threw the driver from the car.", "She was thrown from the horse.", "The storm threw the boat against a reef.", "Noun", "The quarterback made a perfect throw .", "He lost all his winnings on his last throw .", "a discus throw of 200 feet", "It's a long throw from center field to home plate.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Even double letters are often enough to throw me off my game. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 2 July 2022", "Consumers who have purchased these products are urged to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 1 July 2022", "So now Jonna basically has permission from all three women to throw them in. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022", "Rogers Waters is ready to throw it all the way back to 1979. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 22 June 2022", "When Smith and his friends got caught, officials with the show planned to throw them out until McQueen found out and intervened. \u2014 Lee Escobedo, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "There\u2019s nothing like a where-did-this-come-from type of skin rash to throw you for a loop. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 7 June 2022", "However, people could have bought the berries and froze and, if so, they are advised to throw them away. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 31 May 2022", "\u00c9tienne threatens to throw himself off a balcony if Stella does not sleep with him. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 24 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "In his lone college season Wesley shot 40.4% overall, 30% from behind the three-point line and 65.7% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022", "Chicago also had the edge on the free- throw line, making 15 of 17 (88.2%) shots there. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022", "Jonquel Jones was 7-of-9 from the free- throw line while Brionna Jones was perfect with four attempts. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022", "Davis is a tenacious defender and talented midrange scorer who also gets to the free- throw line at a high rate. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022", "Branham certainly checks the shooting box, hitting 49.8% from the field, 41.6% from 3-point range and 83.3% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 18 May 2022", "Teams would foul him freely, especially late in close games, forcing him to the free- throw line. \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2022", "So everyone gathers around right at the free- throw line. \u2014 Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022", "On this night, the Warriors also made 53% of their shots beyond the arc and 91% at the free- throw line. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawen, throwen to cause to twist, throw, from Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn; akin to Old High German dr\u0101en to turn, Latin terere to rub, Greek tribein to rub, tetrainein to bore, pierce":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-090039" }, "throwster":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": one who throws textile filaments":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-st\u0259r" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123543", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "thru":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":[ "Definition of thru less common spelling of through" ], "examples":[], "first_known_use":[], "history_and_etymology":[], "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-135225", "type":[] }, "thrum":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a fringe of warp threads left on the loom after the cloth has been removed":[], ": a tuft or short piece of rope yarn used in thrumming canvas":[ "\u2014 usually used in plural" ], ": bit , particle":[], ": one of these warp threads":[], ": the monotonous sound of thrumming":[], ": to furnish with thrums : fringe":[], ": to insert short pieces of rope yarn or spun yarn in (a piece of canvas) to make a rough surface or a mat which can be wrapped about rigging to prevent chafing":[], ": to play (something, such as a stringed instrument) in an idle or relaxed manner":[], ": to play or pluck a stringed instrument idly : strum":[], ": to recite tiresomely or monotonously":[], ": to sound with a monotonous hum":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun", "1592, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2":"Verb", "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb", "1798, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from Old English -thrum (in tungethrum ligament of the tongue); 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a pair of acrobatic arms stretch forward to seamlessly break the fall. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 15 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "This issue of being treated fairly has been the thrust for much of the delays at committee, with Ald. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022", "Such an approach has been a central thrust for Mr. Biden, who during the 2020 campaign said Russia was the greatest foreign policy challenge for the United States in the medium term, and China the biggest in the long term. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022", "But that, in an odd way, is not even the thrust of the documentary. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022", "Though Chen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2000, is not accused of stealing secrets and sharing them with China, which is a central thrust of the China Initiative. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022", "The only force remaining will be the thrust from the engines, so the speed of the spaceship should increase. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 3 Dec. 2021", "Therefore, creating a coaching-centric culture should be a key thrust of the larger organizational transformation narrative and agenda. \u2014 Thomas Lim, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021", "And the spending, while significant, wasn\u2019t really the thrust of the New Deal. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 30 Aug. 2021", "Trump's rhetoric is only the leading edge of what will be a main thrust of the Republican argument against total Democratic control in Washington heading into the 2022 midterm elections. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 7 June 2021" ], "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb", "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4a":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrusten, thristen , from Old Norse thr\u0233sta ; probably akin to Old Norse thrj\u014dta to tire, Old English thr\u0113at coercion \u2014 more at threat":"Verb" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0259st" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "drive", "propel", "push", "shove" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073207", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "thruway":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": expressway":[] }, "examples":[ "the New York State Thruway", "we took back roads on the way out, and the thruway on the way back", "Recent Examples on the Web", "California might be described as a collection of various states, with no single thruway . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2022", "Guardrails on human behavior promote animal survival \u2013 from restricting the ivory trade at a major thruway city like Hong Kong, to keeping people out of natural animal habitats in Costa Rica. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 Jan. 2022", "The sale is valid on all routes minus the Pennsylvanian and Keystone Service (between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), Pacific Surfliner, New Haven-Springfield Shuttle, and 7000-8999 thruway connecting services. \u2014 Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure , 28 Apr. 2021", "These scientists suggest tweaking the mass and charge of fermions\u2014fundamental building blocks of matter\u2014could keep the cosmic thruway open. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 11 Mar. 2021", "That space became, instead, a popular pedestrian and cycling thruway . \u2014 Emily Badger, New York Times , 12 Jan. 2021", "Both passengers and employees must wear face masks while on trains or thruway buses. \u2014 Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure , 30 June 2020", "Access to the town was effectively halted while firefighters battled the Bush Fire that forced the closure of State Route 87, a highway also known as the Beeline, that serves as the town's arterial thruway . \u2014 Justin Price, The Arizona Republic , 25 June 2020", "Amtrak is requiring all customers and employees to wear facial coverings while on trains or thruway buses. \u2014 The Washington Post , 15 June 2020" ], "first_known_use":{ "1930, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00fc-\u02ccw\u0101" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "arterial", "artery", "avenue", "boulevard", "carriageway", "drag", "drive", "expressway", "freeway", "high road", "highway", "pass", "pike", "road", "roadway", "route", "row", "street", "thoroughfare", "trace", "turnpike", "way" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055035", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "three":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "pronoun, plural in construction" ], "definitions":{ ": a number that is one more than 2 \u2014 see Table of Numbers":[], ": the third in a set or series":[ "the three of hearts" ], ": something having three units or members":[], ": three-pointer":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "\u201cWhat time is it", "I leave each day at three .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Devin Booker hit two threes in a span of 16.9 seconds with the second one giving Phoenix Suns the lead with 36 seconds left in their 98-94 comeback win. \u2014 Duane Rankin, azcentral , 3 May 2020", "For the most part, people sat in twos or threes with ample grassy space between them. \u2014 Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com , 4 May 2020", "Sharpe\u2019s 214 threes are also the ninth most in school history. \u2014 James Weber, Cincinnati.com , 26 Mar. 2020", "Giving up good looks Texas Tech knocked down 13 threes and shot 60.4% from the field. \u2014 Grant Mcgalliard, Dallas News , 10 Feb. 2020", "Siakam hit five threes by himself in the first half. \u2014 Duane Rankin, azcentral , 21 Feb. 2020", "On Tuesday, the Nittany Lions shooting guard hit four threes in the first half but could barely breathe in the second. \u2014 Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press , 6 Mar. 2020", "Following two free throws by Tinkle, Pritchard and Will Richardson hit consecutive threes to increase the Oregon lead to 51-29. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 Feb. 2020", "Below is a recap of the game: FINAL: Texas A&M 78, Auburn 75 -- Auburn misses its last-second three and loses its first home game 78-75. \u2014 Giana Han, al , 4 Mar. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, from three , adjective, from Old English thr\u012be (masculine), thr\u0113o (feminine & neuter); akin to Old High German dr\u012b three, Latin tres , Greek treis":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141819" }, "three-ply":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": having three layers or threads":[ "three-ply paper" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142304" }, "throw a wobbly":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to become very angry or upset":[ "He threw a wobbly when he found out his flight was delayed." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142417" }, "throws":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to propel through the air by a forward motion of the hand and arm":[ "throw a baseball" ], ": to propel through the air in any manner":[ "a rifle that can throw a bullet a mile" ], ": pitch sense 6b":[ "threw a no-hitter" ], ": to cause to fall":[ "threw his opponent" ], ": to cause to fall off : unseat":[ "the horse threw its rider" ], ": to get the better of : overcome":[ "the problem didn't throw her" ], ": to fling (oneself) precipitately":[ "threw herself down on the sofa" ], ": to drive or impel violently : dash":[ "the ship was thrown on a reef" ], ": to put in a particular position or condition":[ "threw her arms around him", "thrown into chaos", "threw him into prison" ], ": to put on or off hastily or carelessly":[ "threw on a coat" ], ": to bring to bear : exert":[ "threw all his efforts into the boy's defense", "throw their weight behind the proposal" ], ": build , construct":[ "threw a pontoon bridge over the river" ], ": to give by way of entertainment":[ "throw a party" ], ": to indulge in : give way to":[ "threw a temper tantrum" ], ": to lose intentionally":[ "throw a game" ], ": to form or shape on a potter's wheel":[], ": to deliver (a blow) in or as if in boxing":[], ": to make a cast of (dice or a specified number on dice)":[], ": roll sense 1a":[ "throw a bowling ball" ], ": to give up : abandon":[], ": to make (oneself) dependent : commit (oneself) for help, support, or protection":[ "threw himself on the mercy of the court" ], ": to perform (something, such as a stunt) successfully":[ "throwing tricks on a skateboard" ], ": to bring forth":[ "throws a good crop" ], ": to give birth to":[ "threw large litters" ], ": to put (an automobile) in a different gear especially quickly or suddenly":[ "he threw the car into reverse" ], ": deposit sense 2b":[ "the wine throws sediment" ], ": to twist two or more filaments of into a thread or yarn":[], ": cast , hurl":[], ": to discourage especially through pessimism or indifference":[], ": to spend large sums of money on or for especially recklessly or ineffectively":[ "trying to solve problems by throwing money at them" ], ": to exercise influence or authority especially to an excessive degree or in an objectionable manner":[], ": to leave unprotected against fierce opposition or attack":[], ": to put together in a hurried and usually careless manner":[ "a bookshelf hastily thrown together" ], ": to bring into casual association":[ "different kinds of people are thrown together", "\u2014 Richard Sennett" ], ": an act of throwing , hurling, or flinging":[], ": an act of throwing dice":[], ": the number thrown with a cast of dice":[], ": a method of throwing an opponent in wrestling or judo":[], ": the distance a missile may be thrown or light rays may be projected":[], ": a light coverlet (as for a bed)":[], ": a woman's scarf or light wrap":[], ": an undertaking involving chance or danger : risk , venture":[], ": the amount of vertical displacement produced by a geologic fault":[], ": the extreme movement given to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, or eccentric : stroke":[], ": the length of the radius of a crank or the virtual crank radius of an eccentric or cam":[], ": for each one : apiece":[ "copies are to be sold at $5 a throw", "\u2014 Harvey Breit" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d" ], "synonyms":[ "cast", "catapult", "chuck", "dash", "fire", "fling", "heave", "hurl", "hurtle", "launch", "lob", "loft", "peg", "pelt", "pitch", "sling", "toss" ], "antonyms":[ "adventure", "chance", "crapshoot", "enterprise", "flier", "flyer", "flutter", "gamble", "speculation", "venture" ], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for throw Verb throw , cast , toss , fling , hurl , pitch , sling mean to cause to move swiftly through space by a propulsive movement or a propelling force. throw is general and interchangeable with the other terms but may specifically imply a distinctive motion with bent arm. can throw a fastball and a curve cast usually implies lightness in the thing thrown and sometimes a scattering. cast it to the winds toss suggests a light or careless or aimless throwing and may imply an upward motion. tossed the coat on the bed fling stresses a violent throwing. flung the ring back in his face hurl implies power as in throwing a massive weight. hurled himself at the intruder pitch suggests throwing carefully at a target. pitch horseshoes sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim. slung the bag over his shoulder", "examples":[ "Verb", "She threw the ball to first base.", "We threw our hats in the air at the end of the ceremony.", "Let's see how far you can throw .", "You throw like a wimp.", "She threw her coat on the bed.", "Don't throw your trash on the ground. Throw it in the trash can.", "The wrestler threw his opponent to the mat.", "The crash threw the driver from the car.", "She was thrown from the horse.", "The storm threw the boat against a reef.", "Noun", "The quarterback made a perfect throw .", "He lost all his winnings on his last throw .", "a discus throw of 200 feet", "It's a long throw from center field to home plate.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Even double letters are often enough to throw me off my game. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 2 July 2022", "Consumers who have purchased these products are urged to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 1 July 2022", "So now Jonna basically has permission from all three women to throw them in. \u2014 Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com , 23 June 2022", "Rogers Waters is ready to throw it all the way back to 1979. \u2014 Starr Bowenbank, Billboard , 22 June 2022", "When Smith and his friends got caught, officials with the show planned to throw them out until McQueen found out and intervened. \u2014 Lee Escobedo, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "There\u2019s nothing like a where-did-this-come-from type of skin rash to throw you for a loop. \u2014 Kirsten Nunez, SELF , 7 June 2022", "However, people could have bought the berries and froze and, if so, they are advised to throw them away. \u2014 Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al , 31 May 2022", "\u00c9tienne threatens to throw himself off a balcony if Stella does not sleep with him. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 24 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "In his lone college season Wesley shot 40.4% overall, 30% from behind the three-point line and 65.7% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel , 21 June 2022", "Chicago also had the edge on the free- throw line, making 15 of 17 (88.2%) shots there. \u2014 Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant , 11 June 2022", "Jonquel Jones was 7-of-9 from the free- throw line while Brionna Jones was perfect with four attempts. \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 9 June 2022", "Davis is a tenacious defender and talented midrange scorer who also gets to the free- throw line at a high rate. \u2014 Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022", "Branham certainly checks the shooting box, hitting 49.8% from the field, 41.6% from 3-point range and 83.3% from the free- throw line. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 18 May 2022", "Teams would foul him freely, especially late in close games, forcing him to the free- throw line. \u2014 WSJ , 11 May 2022", "So everyone gathers around right at the free- throw line. \u2014 Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022", "On this night, the Warriors also made 53% of their shots beyond the arc and 91% at the free- throw line. \u2014 Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrawen, throwen to cause to twist, throw, from Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn; akin to Old High German dr\u0101en to turn, Latin terere to rub, Greek tribein to rub, tetrainein to bore, pierce":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb", "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142914" }, "threescore":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": being three times twenty : sixty":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8sk\u022fr", "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02ccsk\u022fr" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142957" }, "three-halfpence":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the sum of three halfpence : a penny and a half":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English threhalpenys , from three, thre three + halpenys, halfpenys , plural of halpeny, halfpeny , halfpenny":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143112" }, "thrombus":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a clot of blood formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin \u2014 compare embolus":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4m-b\u0259s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The manner of Guild\u2019s death was natural and the causes were pulmonary thromboembolus, a blood clot in the lung, and a thrombus in the left popliteal vein, a vein in the leg, according to the coroner. \u2014 Matt Sledge, NOLA.com , 18 Oct. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Greek thrombos clot":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1725, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144029" }, "threefold purchase":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a tackle of two treble blocks":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144535" }, "throw (someone) a kiss":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to kiss the palm of one's hand and move the hand quickly away from one's mouth in a waving motion toward (someone)":[ "She threw me a kiss and waved goodbye." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145218" }, "throw by":{ "type":[ "transitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to put aside : discard as worthless or unnecessary":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150837" }, "three-legged race":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a race between pairs of competitors with each pair having their adjacent legs bound together":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "But as you haven\u2019t been introduced to this guy, let your girlfriend show him the ropes \u2014 to take this rodeo metaphor to its dusty death. Challenge them to a three-legged race . \u2014 Anna Pulley, chicagotribune.com , 19 Apr. 2022", "The two men navigated the terrain in a way that some observers compared to a three-legged race . \u2014 Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times , 30 Dec. 2021", "The event, from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Parr Park, 3010 Parr Lane, will include activities such as a three-legged race , sponge toss, sack races and tug of war. \u2014 Anna Caplan, Dallas News , 6 May 2021", "At the 1992 Town Picnic in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the three-legged race was won for the first time by a single person. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Sep. 2020", "Would his smile be intact for a blindfolded three-legged race hosted by Mila Kunis in episode two", "Pioneer Park Fourth of July Celebration \u2014 Visit Pioneer Park for a day of live music, outdoor games, bubbles, a three-legged race , face painting and more. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 3 July 2019", "Throw a summer party with old-fashioned games, including three-legged races , horseshoes and sack races. \u2014 Arizona Republic, azcentral , 1 July 2019", "Highlights include a blueberry pie eating contest, a corn hole tournament, a three-legged race , and performances by Brandy, Four on the Floor, Haywire, and the Reading Community Concert Band. \u2014 Zipporah Osei And Julia Preszler, BostonGlobe.com , 27 June 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1872, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-151838" }, "three-toed sloth":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of a genus ( Bradypus ) of sloths having three clawed digits on each foot and eight or nine vertebrae in the neck \u2014 compare two-toed sloth":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8t\u014dd-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The baby three-toed sloth was found May 10 on the ground near the Playa Chiquita beach. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 21 May 2022", "Here, amid stormy conditions, this beautiful moss-covered, three-toed sloth survived. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 1 June 2021", "Tourists in Costa Rica recently witnessed a magical and elusive event\u2014the birth of a three-toed sloth . \u2014 Jason Bittel, National Geographic , 2 Mar. 2020", "More than a third of the world\u2019s animal species live there including three-toed sloths , Amazon River dolphins, Amazonian manatees, anacondas, piranhas, and much more. \u2014 Danielle Pointdujour, Essence , 6 Jan. 2020", "Although this species is not threatened, two of the six species of sloth are endangered: the pygmy three-toed sloth (critically endangered) and the maned sloth (vulnerable). \u2014 Terry Gardner, latimes.com , 6 May 2018", "Two-toed sloths, like the one the Morgans found, and three-toed sloths are typically found in the forests of Central and South America. \u2014 Mallorie Sullivan, Cincinnati.com , 16 Jan. 2018", "November 2, 2017 \u2014In Suriname, the all-volunteer Green Heritage Fund Suriname is devoting itself to the rescue of three-toed sloths . \u2014 Staff, The Christian Science Monitor , 3 Nov. 2017", "Among the six species of two-toed and three-toed sloths , two are endangered. \u2014 Nicole Hong, WSJ , 18 Aug. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1847, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152449" }, "threats action":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an action for damages and an injunction against one threatening without justification to sue for alleged infringement of patent rights":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153120" }, "three-mile limit":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the limit of the marginal sea of three miles included in the territorial waters of a state":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The prosecutors contended that the three-mile limit for California\u2019s waters should be calculated from an imaginary line in the Pacific connecting the bay\u2019s two headlands: Point Vicente and Point Dume. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1876, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153746" }, "three-quarter-bound":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": bound like a half-bound book but having the material on the spine extended to cover about one third of the boards":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8k(w)\u022f(r)-t\u0259r-\u02ccbau\u0307nd" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1951, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153806" }, "throw a block":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to hit an opposing player to prevent him from making a tackle":[ "The lineman threw a block that freed his teammate to make a long run." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154627" }, "throw a wrench into the works":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to damage or change (something) in a way that ruins it or prevents it from working properly":[ "We were going to renew our lease, but the landlord threw a wrench into the works by increasing the rent." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155526" }, "three-point turn":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a way of turning a vehicle around in a small space by going forward, turning to one side, then backing up, turning so as to face the other direction, then going forward again":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155601" }, "three-point line":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a line on a basketball court forming an arc at a set distance (such as 22 feet) from the basket beyond which a field goal counts for three points":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8p\u022fint-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "About: In his second season at Marquette, Lewis shot 34.9% from behind the three-point line and 76.1% from the free throw line in averaging 16.8 points per game. \u2014 Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel , 17 June 2022", "Like not camping at the three-point line on offense. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 May 2022", "Wright State quickly brought the ball upcourt with Calvin getting to the three-point line near the top of the key. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 Feb. 2022", "Rotational substitutions have something to do with it, as teams have constantly run quick shooting guards out to the three-point line making 35% of those shots on 39 attempts per game, second-most in the league. \u2014 Scooby Axson, USA TODAY , 25 Nov. 2021", "In catch-and-shoot, LaVine ended the year with an eFG% of 67.1%, including 46.0% from the behind the three-point line . \u2014 Morten Jensen, Forbes , 28 May 2022", "In the playoffs, the four remaining teams are taking more than 40 percent of their shots from behind the three-point line . \u2014 Fred Bowen, Washington Post , 26 May 2022", "Wildly, over half of their shots in this series have come from behind the three-point line . \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 9 May 2022", "Jalen Brunson and Spencer Dinwiddle stepped up in Doncic\u2019s absence and proved to be a threat behind the three-point line , but how well will Dallas be able to shoot the ball against Phoenix\u2019s defense. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1977, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-155741" }, "three-quarters":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an amount equal to three of the four equal parts which make up something : seventy-five percent":[ "Three-quarters of the class will be going on the trip.", "three-quarters of an hour" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160313" }, "throw-crook":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an instrument used for twisting rope from hay, straw, or hair":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "throw entry 1 + crook":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160408" }, "three-toed plover":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": golden plover":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160421" }, "through the wringer":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": through a series of very difficult or unpleasant experiences":[ "Those poor people have really gone/been through the wringer lately.", "They were put through the wringer by the adoption agency." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-160741" }, "thromboxane":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of several substances that are produced especially by platelets, are formed from endoperoxides, cause constriction of vascular and bronchial smooth muscle, and promote blood clotting":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "thr\u00e4m-\u02c8b\u00e4k-\u02ccs\u0101n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "thromb- + ox- + -ane":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1975, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161523" }, "throw in one's lot with":{ "type":[ "idiomatic phrase" ], "definitions":{ ": to join or become associated with a person, group, or thing that one hopes will win or succeed":[ "Fence-straddlers may now throw in their lot with the new government.", "\u2014 Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland", "He threw in his lot with the pro-tariff side even more during the Great Depression.", "\u2014 Michael Hiltzik" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1870, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163456" }, "throw on":{ "type":[ "phrasal verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to quickly put on (a piece of 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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164458" }, "throw (someone) for a loop":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to cause (someone) to be very amazed, confused, or shocked":[ "The news of her death really threw me for a loop .", "His parents were thrown for a loop when he quit college." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-164741" }, "three-phase":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": of, relating to, or operating by means of a combination of three circuits energized by alternating electromotive forces that differ in phase by one third of a cycle":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8f\u0101z" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1892, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165237" }, "three-quarter-bred":{ "type":[ 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heroine serves a throwback in two-tone red hair and jumpsuit as part of the mutant crew. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022", "There is a feeling of time slowed down, a throwback to a less-frenzied era, which seems fitting for a place that boomed and busted well over a century ago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 June 2022", "Therefore, wearing her mother's hat from that day is a significant throwback as the entire British royal family celebrates the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\u2014and her monumental 70 years on the British throne. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 2 June 2022", "That\u2019s a quaint throwback to 1990\u2014the last time that the average large-company CEO was granted compensation worth around 50 times a typical worker\u2019s salary, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). \u2014 Maria Aspan, Fortune , 27 May 2022", "The Lost Rad Ripper is a shameless throwback to the eighties. \u2014 Zander Morton, Outside Online , 27 May 2022", "Recent 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right flat with no one around, Heinicke spotted him, and made a daring throw back across the field. \u2014 Paul Newberry, ajc , 4 Oct. 2021", "Pot fishers must throw back all these red king crab, but biologists estimate only half survive. \u2014 Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Oct. 2021", "Cain flipped the ball to Avisa\u00edl Garc\u00eda to throw back to the infield but not in time to keep Bader from racing around from second to score the second run on the fly ball. \u2014 Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Sep. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 2b":"Noun", "1656, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170123" }, "through thick and thin":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": through many difficult times over a long period":[ "She stood by me through thick and thin ." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", 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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172119" }, "three-toed woodpecker":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of several boreal woodpeckers of the genus Picoides in which the inner digit is lacking or vestigial":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-172737" }, "through the mill":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": through a very difficult experience":[ "They've been (put) through the mill in the months since their father died." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-173732" }, "three-ball":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": relating to or being a golf match in which three players compete against one another with each playing a single ball":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02ccb\u022fl" ], 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venous thrombosis or blood clots in the lung (pulmonary embolism). \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 24 May 2022", "Technically, the condition\u2019s a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (that\u2019s the clot in the veins carrying blood away from the brain\u2014basically a stroke) with thrombocytopenia (that\u2019s the low platelet count). \u2014 Adam Rogers, Wired , 15 Apr. 2021", "Women are more predisposed to certain clotting events, such as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis , clotting in the sinuses that drain blood from the brain, than men. \u2014 Zamira Rahim, CNN , 9 Apr. 2021", "Back in April, the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine was briefly pulled from the market after rare cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), a type of blood clot, began to occur predominantly among women ages 18-48. \u2014 Nikolas Lanum, Fox News , 8 Nov. 2021", "The clots, called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), were found in women age 18 to 48 within six to 13 days of vaccination. \u2014 Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune , 17 Apr. 2021", "However, there is a plausible causal relationship between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and death from thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which occurs when clots form in blood vessels, according to the CDC. \u2014 Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY , 14 Mar. 2022", "The decision was based on additional evidence of cases in the U.S. of a dangerous clotting condition known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS, a side effect that has been seen with the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 20 Dec. 2021", "That has not been associated with the rare blood-clotting condition, known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 Dec. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Greek thromb\u014dsis clotting, from thrombousthai to become clotted, from thrombos clot":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1857, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181756" }, "three-legged":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": having three legs":[ "a three-legged stool" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "-\u02c8l\u0101gd", "-\u02c8le-g\u0259d", "-\u02c8l\u0101-", "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8legd" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1596, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182159" }, "three-piece":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": consisting of or made in three pieces":[ "a three-piece suit" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8p\u0113s" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1904, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182923" }, "throwing-stick":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a device for throwing a spear or dart consisting of a rod or board with a groove on the upper 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weeklong period ending Wednesday, a more than threefold increase in three weeks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures. \u2014 Joe Walsh, Forbes , 21 Jan. 2022", "For the first three months of the year, revenue for that type of clothing was up nearly threefold over a year ago. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 2 May 2022", "For the first three months of the year, revenue for that type of clothing was up nearly threefold over a year ago. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 2 May 2022", "The reason is threefold : First, Americans are drinking less alcohol, on average, than at any time since 2001, according to Gallup. \u2014 Kelsey Ogletree, Travel + Leisure , 15 Apr. 2022", "The cause of this defeat was threefold : the lackluster omnibus nature of the bills, incompetence during committee and testimonies, and the absence of even an elementary communications strategy. \u2014 Anthony Kinnett, National Review , 10 Mar. 2022", "The impact on labor markets is threefold : Those who get sick, those who have to stay home to tend to sick family members, and those who are asymptomatic but test positive and have to stay home because of workplace and government guidelines. \u2014 Rajesh Roy, WSJ , 5 Feb. 2022", "And while many continue to grapple with grief and trauma, the key to resilient outcomes in the face of disaster is threefold , Dr. Bonanno said: First, distill exactly what is causing distress, then come up with a possible solution. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Jan. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-234926" }, "threatful":{ "type":[ "adjective", "adverb" ], "definitions":{ ": full of threats : threatening , menacing":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thretf\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000030" }, 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the Western allies. \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022", "Turkey\u2019s reversal is a blow to President Vladimir Putin, who in justifying the invasion of his neighbor bitterly protested previous expansions of NATO \u2014 and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to join the alliance \u2014 as a threat to his country\u2019s security. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 28 June 2022", "Turkey in recent weeks has claimed that U.S. bases in Greece pose a threat to Turkish security and have accused the U.S. of using a decades-old beef between Athens and Ankara to bolster its own agenda. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 28 June 2022", "Although most species are harmless, some can pose a serious threat . \u2014 Cierra Britten, The Enquirer , 28 June 2022", "Turkey\u2019s reversal is a blow to President Vladimir V. Putin, who in justifying the invasion of his neighbor bitterly protested previous expansions of NATO \u2014 and Ukraine\u2019s efforts to join the alliance \u2014 as a threat to his country\u2019s security. \u2014 New York Times , 28 June 2022", "Doing so would give SpaceX time to demonstrate the satellites don\u2019t pose a threat to orbital safety or radio interference. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 27 June 2022", "That act, though, was written long before climate change was identified as a threat . \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 27 June 2022", "Indeed, the American Psychological Association recognizes climate change as a growing threat to mental health. \u2014 Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF , 27 June 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thret coercion, threat, from Old English thr\u0113at coercion; akin to Middle High German dr\u014dz annoyance, Latin trudere to push, thrust":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010759" }, "three-corner":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": three-cornered":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010936" }, "throw money around":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to spend money in a foolish or careless way":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011609" }, "threaper":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": one that asserts or argues pertinaciously":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "-p\u0259r" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011736" }, "threatens":{ "type":[ "adverb", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to utter threats against":[], ": to give signs or warning of : portend":[ "the clouds threatened rain" ], ": to hang over dangerously : menace":[ "famine threatens the city" ], ": to announce as intended or possible":[ "the workers threatened a strike" ], ": to cause to feel insecure or anxious":[ "felt threatened by his brother's success" ], ": to utter threats":[], ": to portend evil":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thre-t\u1d4an" ], "synonyms":[ "hang (over)", "hover (over)", "impend (over)", "menace", "overhang" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "The mugger threatened him with a gun.", "She threatened to quit if they didn't give her a raise, but no one believed her.", "Civil war has been threatening the country for years.", "a marriage threatened by financial problems", "Overfishing threatens the survival of certain fish species.", "The latest news threatens trouble for the economy.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "One as a powerful Royal, the other a half-vampire Guardian trained to protect against the savage \u2018Strigoi\u2019 who threaten to tear their society apart. \u2014 Sasha Urban, Variety , 29 June 2022", "One character is a powerful Royal while the other is a half-vampire Guardian trained to protect against the savage 'Strigoi' who threaten to tear their society apart. \u2014 Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com , 29 June 2022", "For example, having a right to life does not entail a right to threaten another\u2019s health or life, or ride roughshod over another\u2019s life plans and goals. \u2014 Nancy S. Jecker, The Conversation , 23 June 2022", "The tech industry has said the bill would threaten many features and services that consumers have come to depend on and that make their lives easier. \u2014 Brian Fung, CNN , 17 June 2022", "Creating new, harsher punishments for people who threaten , intimidate or dox election workers. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 17 May 2022", "Meanwhile, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban the open carry of guns at polling places and create new criminal penalties for people who threaten election workers. \u2014 Laura Romero, ABC News , 9 May 2022", "Adopted in early 2021 after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the tougher rules authorize the FAA to impose fines of up to $37,000 for each violation by those who threaten or assault others on a commercial aircraft. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022", "And several runners who could threaten the course record if any of them are willing to set an honest pace in the 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"first_known_use":{ "1908, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021407" }, "three-base hit":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a base hit that enables a batter to reach third base safely":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-021416" }, "three-peat":{ "type":[ "intransitive verb", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a third consecutive championship":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02ccp\u0113t" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "blend of three and repeat":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1988, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-022548" }, "three-volumer":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a 3-volume novel":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], 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Jecker, The Conversation , 23 June 2022", "The tech industry has said the bill would threaten many features and services that consumers have come to depend on and that make their lives easier. \u2014 Brian Fung, CNN , 17 June 2022", "Creating new, harsher punishments for people who threaten , intimidate or dox election workers. \u2014 Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press , 17 May 2022", "Meanwhile, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban the open carry of guns at polling places and create new criminal penalties for people who threaten election workers. \u2014 Laura Romero, ABC News , 9 May 2022", "Adopted in early 2021 after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the tougher rules authorize the FAA to impose fines of up to $37,000 for each violation by those who threaten or assault others on a commercial aircraft. \u2014 Kate Gibson, CBS News , 21 Apr. 2022", "And several runners who could threaten the course record if any of them are willing to set an honest pace in the 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"Recent Examples on the Web", "The study, published Tuesday in the BMJ, also found an association between exposure to this form of pollution and the risk of hospitalization for Parkinson's disease, diabetes, thrombophlebitis and thromboembolism. \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 27 Nov. 2019", "Or the hypercoagulable state that led to the thrombophlebitis " ], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1873, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-063624" }, "throw stick":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": throwing-stick":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-064510" }, "threepence":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the sum of three pennies":[], ": a coin worth three pennies":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "US also \u02c8thr\u0113-pen(t)s", "\u02c8thre-p\u0259n(t)s", "\u02c8thr\u0259-", "\u02c8thri-" 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the Wolf is a 48-year-old German threshing machine , as gray as an aircraft carrier and as scarred as Frankenstein\u2019s monster. \u2014 Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Aug. 2019", "Royer also did primitive American paintings of his childhood, of barn raisings and threshing machines , Vallillo said. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun , 7 June 2018", "Students have worked on projects in Bangladesh, Brazil and Ethiopia, where a portable threshing machine was developed for farmers. \u2014 Gary Warth, sandiegouniontribune.com , 4 Sep. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1775, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103427" }, "threepenny nail":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a nail 1\u00b9/\u2088 inches long":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "so called from the former price per hundred":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112848" }, "threshing floor":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": ground or floor space for threshing or treading out grain":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thresschinge flor , from thresschinge, thresshinge (gerund of thresschen, thresshen to thresh) + flor floor":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114331" }, "through traffic":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": traffic initiated at and destined for points outside a local zone":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114743" }, "three-way bulb":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an electric light bulb having two filaments of different wattage that can be lighted separately or together to give three levels of illumination":[] }, 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varying doses of either the classic blood thinner heparin or one of the newer, oral anticoagulant drugs such as dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor. \u2014 Maggie Fox, CNN , 6 May 2020", "Our analysis of the molecular composition of these stitch points showed that one of these molecules, neurofascin 155, has a site that can be cleaved by a specific enzyme, thrombin , to thin the myelin. \u2014 R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American , 12 Mar. 2020", "The study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology uses nanotechnology to deliver thrombin , an enzyme that helps blood to clot. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 13 Feb. 2018", "The thrombin was placed using DNA origami, a process where DNA is folded into specific shapes. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 13 Feb. 2018", "In this complex process known as a coagulation cascade, an enzyme in your blood called thrombin allows a protein called fibrinogen to form a net-like structure that hardens and contracts. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 15 Dec. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "International Scientific Vocabulary":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1897, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182910" }, "three-holer":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a privy with three openings":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113\u00a6h\u014dl\u0259(r)" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "three + hole + -er":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190824" }, "thrombolytic":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "noun," ], "definitions":{ ": destroying or breaking up a thrombus":[ "a thrombolytic agent", "thrombolytic therapy" ], ": a thrombolytic drug : clot-buster":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u0259-\u02c8lit-ik", "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u0259-\u02c8li-tik" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "They would then be hustled off for a brain CT scan, a requirement before the thrombolytic could be administered. \u2014 Mark Prather, STAT , 20 Nov. 2021", "Other people were tinkering with different drugs in this class, called thrombolytics . \u2014 Karen Weintraub, STAT , 6 Apr. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1914, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective", "1965, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191932" }, "three-step":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a dance characterized especially by three steps in each movement":[], ": a skiing maneuver to attain speed on level ground consisting of two short steps followed by a glide":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193931" }, "throwing power":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the ability to deposit a plating of uniform depth on a surface of irregular shape":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205859" }, "through bond":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a transverse bond formed by a member that extends crosswise through the wall":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210204" }, "three-field system":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a system of land cultivation under which the common land is divided into three parts of which one or two in rotation lie fallow in each year and the rest are cultivated":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211543" }, "three-tailed porgy":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a spadefish ( Chaetodipterus faber )":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-215305" }, "three-color":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": being or relating to a printing or photographic process wherein three primary colors are used to reproduce all the colors of the subject":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8k\u0259-l\u0259r" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1893, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222032" }, "thrashing":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a severe beating or flogging":[ "If a poacher was taken he was given a thrashing as well as being prosecuted with its consequent jail sentence.", "\u2014 W. Mostyn Thomas", "\"They called her a little blue ragamuffin, father,\" said Harry, who ran in looking very angry. \"But I have given it to them. They won't insult my sister again. 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red hair and jumpsuit as part of the mutant crew. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022", "There is a feeling of time slowed down, a throwback to a less-frenzied era, which seems fitting for a place that boomed and busted well over a century ago. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 June 2022", "Therefore, wearing her mother's hat from that day is a significant throwback as the entire British royal family celebrates the Queen's Platinum Jubilee\u2014and her monumental 70 years on the British throne. \u2014 Emily Burack, Town & Country , 2 June 2022", "That\u2019s a quaint throwback to 1990\u2014the last time that the average large-company CEO was granted compensation worth around 50 times a typical worker\u2019s salary, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). \u2014 Maria Aspan, Fortune , 27 May 2022", "The Lost Rad Ripper is a shameless throwback to the eighties. \u2014 Zander Morton, Outside Online , 27 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Russian forces, having scaled back earlier ambitions for a broad thrust, are advancing by unleashing intense artillery fire and air attacks in limited areas, aiming to throw back Ukrainian defenders. \u2014 Daniel Michaels, WSJ , 7 June 2022", "With Kyle Farmer at first, Fraley sent a fly ball to left that Kwan caught and fired a throw back toward the bag. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 12 Apr. 2022", "Throwback songs, evoking a certain musical style or era, have been a hallmark of pop music for as long as there\u2019s been pop music to throw back to. \u2014 Jem Aswad, Variety , 31 Mar. 2022", "Landry took the snap and rolled left looking to throw back to his right. \u2014 Tom Withers, ajc , 21 Nov. 2021", "Light bathrooms come ornamented with handmade glass mosaics that throw back the light; luxuriant Acqua di Parma toiletries; and indulgent soaking tubs (some with jacuzzi jets). \u2014 Nicole Trilivas, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021", "McKissic slipped out into the right flat with no one around, Heinicke spotted him, and made a daring throw back across the field. \u2014 Paul Newberry, ajc , 4 Oct. 2021", "Pot fishers must throw back all these red king crab, but biologists estimate only half survive. \u2014 Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Oct. 2021", "Cain flipped the ball to Avisa\u00edl Garc\u00eda to throw back to the infield but not in time to keep Bader from racing around from second to score the second run on the fly ball. \u2014 Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 22 Sep. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1883, in the meaning defined at sense 2b":"Noun", "1656, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235205" }, "thrill ride":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a very exciting ride (such as a roller coaster) at an amusement park":[ "\u2014 often used figuratively The campaign has been a thrill ride from the beginning." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235914" }, "three-cushion carom":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": three-cushion billiards":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001152" }, "three-card poker":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": poker in which each player's hand contains only three cards and the hands rank downward in the order three of a kind, three cards of the same suit in sequence, three cards of the same suit, three cards in sequence, pair, and high card":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002826" }, "threeling":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": thrilling":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113li\u014b" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "three entry 3 + -ling":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003336" }, "three-leaved stonecrop":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": wild stonecrop":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005442" }, "three-toothed cinquefoil":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": crystal tea sense 1":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005849" }, "three-leaved maple":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": box elder":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015520" }, "through the floor":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": to a very low level":[ "The value of the stock has dropped/gone/fallen through the floor ." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044014" }, "three-card monte":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a gambling game in which the dealer shows three cards, shuffles them, places them face down, and invites spectators to bet they can identify the location of a particular card":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8k\u00e4rd-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "The Golden State Warriors coach shuffled his kings and knights and pawns Saturday night, making slick moves like a guy dealing three-card monte on a street corner \u2014 to mix game metaphors \u2014 and the Memphis Grizzlies are reeling. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 May 2022", "Just like in three-card monte , everyone wins except the mark. \u2014 Robert Pearl, Forbes , 1 Mar. 2021", "Topdog/Underdog For Ubuntu Theater Project, Dorian Lockett and Michael Curry star in Suzan-Lori Parks\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers Lincoln and Booth, one who works as a Lincoln impersonator, the other who deals three-card monte . \u2014 Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle , 7 June 2018", "Topdog/Underdog For Ubuntu Theater Project, Dorian Lockett and Michael Curry star in Suzan-Lori Parks\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers Lincoln and Booth, one who works as a Lincoln impersonator, the other who deals three-card Monte . \u2014 Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle , 24 May 2018", "That fellow in the picture who, in my thinking, appears to be dealing a game of three-card monte , is former Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Ring of Parkland. \u2014 Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com , 24 Jan. 2018", "New Orleans watched for months as the top three candidates for mayor shuffled to the lead in poll after poll like a game of three-card Monte , deceiving anyone who thought a favorite would emerge. \u2014 Richard Rainey, NOLA.com , 17 Oct. 2017", "And now, 40-odd years later, their achievements are under assault from a gaggle of lightweights and a president-elect whose only apparent political skill is the equivalent of a three-card monte game on the E train. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 17 Jan. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1854, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-045125" }, "thrombokinase":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": thromboplastin":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u014d-\u02c8k\u012b-\u02ccn\u0101s", "-\u02ccn\u0101z", "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u014d-\u02c8k\u012b-\u02ccn\u0101s, -\u02ccn\u0101z" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "International Scientific Vocabulary":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1905, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-051535" }, "three-em space":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a space in printing that is \u00b9/\u2083 of an em in thickness":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-060155" }, "three-leaved ivy":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": poison ivy":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-063010" }, "threap down":{ "type":[ "transitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to reduce to silence by vigorous or repeated assertion":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-071212" }, "throwing-knife":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a knifelike weapon often with several blades set at different angles that is used by some central African people for casting at an enemy or animal":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "throwing (gerund of throw entry 1 ) + knife or iron":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-073958" }, "three-part 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"synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Sustainable fishing is catching on in Abu Dhabi, with good news for threatened species. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 Apr. 2022", "All manner of fish, sea birds, and turtles get caught up in the netting and die, putting threatened species at risk, and robbing the planet of vital fish stocks. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 22 Mar. 2022", "Others dragged heavy hoses into threatened houses and shot water out of second story windows to get a better angle on a fire next door. \u2014 Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022", "Check out the dune scorpions, which are thriving in Baja\u2019s threatened sand dunes. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022", "Turkey\u2019s threatened veto is crucial because NATO acceptance of new members requires unanimity. \u2014 Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com , 19 May 2022", "Not as sentimentally endearing but threatened and critically key to the health of oceans is the shark. \u2014 Louise Schiavone, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022", "One problem, we\u2019re told, is that our food supply is more threatened than ever by crop disease. \u2014 Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Feb. 2022", "No better day to appreciate and recognize the more than 1,000 rare, threatened and endangered species that call Texas home. \u2014 Alexandra Kanik, San Antonio Express-News , 20 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1960, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-091637" }, "three-striper":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a commander in the U.S. Navy":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-092359" }, "throw in":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": an act or instance of throwing a ball in: such as":[], ": a throw made from the touchline in soccer to put the ball back in play after it has gone into touch":[], ": a throw from an outfielder to the infield in baseball":[], ": an inbounds pass in basketball":[], ": something added as a bonus or supplement":[], ": to add as a gratuity or supplement":[], ": to introduce or interject in the course of something : contribute":[ "they throw in some \u2026 sound effects on several songs", "\u2014 Tom Phillips" ], ": distribute sense 3b":[], ": engage":[ "throw in the clutch" ], ": to enter into association or partnership : join":[ "agrees to throw in with a crooked ex-cop", "\u2014 Newsweek" ], ": to abandon a struggle or contest : acknowledge defeat : give up":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u014d-\u02ccin" ], "synonyms":[ "bonus", "cumshaw", "dividend", "donative", "extra", "gratuity", "gravy", "gravy train", "lagniappe", "perk", "perquisite", "tip" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Betts singled and took second on the throw in the next at-bat. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022", "The ball skipped past S\u00e1nchez and rolled to the wall as Kiermaier circled the bases, scoring when catcher Jacob Stallings couldn\u2019t control the relay throw in time. \u2014 Dick Scanlon, Sun Sentinel , 24 May 2022", "Reading's Caroline Higgins gets the throw in time to tag out Newton North's Caitlin Conroy (2) trying to stretch a single into a double Saturday. \u2014 Colin Bannen, BostonGlobe.com , 14 May 2022", "The 6-foot-6, 280-pound guard/defensive tackle broke Andrew\u2019s 32-year-old record, unleashing the longest throw in the state at 177 feet, 6.25 inches at the Winston Brown Invitational on April 23 in Edwardsville. \u2014 Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune , 2 May 2022", "Left-hander Dallas Keuchel is scheduled to throw in an Arizona Complex League game on Monday night, his first outing since signing a minor league deal with the Diamondbacks last week. \u2014 Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic , 12 June 2022", "Don't think that the Z is ready to throw in the towel, though. \u2014 Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022", "At one point, Fatou was ready to throw in the towel. \u2014 Bora, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022", "Instead, Home Depot uses the pro centers to stock large quantities of the big items that a builder needs, but also the smaller things that naturally go with the order: For an order of doors, for example, throw in hinges and locks. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 9 June 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1864, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun", "1678, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-095427" }, "thrombocyte":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt", "\u02c8thr\u00e4m-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "International Scientific Vocabulary":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1893, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100218" }, "Three Hours":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a service of devotion between noon and three o'clock on Good Friday":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1891, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100422" }, "thresher shark":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a large nearly cosmopolitan shark ( Alopias vulpinus ) that has a greatly elongated curved upper lobe of the tail which is often used to thresh the water to round up the schooling fish on which it feeds \u2014 see shark illustration":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Oregon's Department of Fish & Wildlife lists the salmon shark, spiny dogfish, soupfin shark, common thresher shark , basking shark, blue shark as native to its coastal waters, among others. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 26 Aug. 2021", "The funds will finalize implementation of state legislation passed in 2018 aimed at phasing out the use of drift gill nets, which fishing boats pull behind them to capture swordfish, opa and thresher shark . \u2014 Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 July 2021", "In the latest example, an adult 15-foot thresher shark \u2014 itself equipped with a whiplike tail capable of stunning blows \u2014 washed up in Libya. \u2014 Joshua Sokol, New York Times , 27 Oct. 2020", "The case of this dead thresher shark piqued the scientists' interest because an adult swordfish inflicted the wound. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Oct. 2020", "But state shark expert Greg Skomal said the thresher sharks like the four that have been found dead in Wellfleet and Orleans in recent days probably aren\u2019t literally freezing to death. \u2014 Dialynn Dwyer, BostonGlobe.com , 4 Jan. 2018", "The conservancy said a fourth thresher shark was found in an ice pack off Wellfleet on New Year\u2019s Eve. \u2014 Dialynn Dwyer, BostonGlobe.com , 4 Jan. 2018", "June Mako Mania: Mako shark tournament for bluefish and thresher sharks . \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 11 May 2018", "The California driftnet fishery targets swordfish and common thresher shark . \u2014 Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic , 27 Apr. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1888, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100929" }, "three-way cross":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the first generation obtained by crossing a simple hybrid with a third form":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-110023" }, "thrashing machine":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": threshing machine":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-121836" }, "thresherman":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": one who makes a business of custom threshing":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "thresher or thrasher entry 1 + man":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-123732" }, "thrasher whale":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": killer sense 3":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-124246" }, "thrill of someone's life":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": an experience that is very exciting":[ "Seeing the Queen was the thrill of her life ." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-133417" }, "thrombogen":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": prothrombin":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4mb\u0259j\u0259\u0307n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "International Scientific Vocabulary thromb- + -gen":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-152340" }, "three-way lamp":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a lamp using a three-way bulb":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-163429" }, "thrills and chills":{ "type":[ "plural noun" ], "definitions":{ ": exciting and scary parts":[ "a movie with a lot of thrills and chills" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-165231" }, "three-eighths blood":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a grade of wool next below half blood in a descending scale of fineness \u2014 compare blood sense 7 , half blood sense 3":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-165338" }, "thrombocytopenia":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": persistent decrease in the number of platelets in the blood that is often associated with hemorrhagic conditions":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u012b-t\u0259-\u02c8p\u0113-n\u0113-\u0259", "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bt-\u0259-\u02c8p\u0113-n\u0113-\u0259, -ny\u0259", "-ny\u0259" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Since these platelets are crucial for stopping bleeding under normal circumstances, this can lead to a dangerous problem known as thrombocytopenia . \u2014 Roxanne Khamsi, Wired , 7 May 2020", "Nicholas was born with a rare disease called thrombocytopenia -absent radius syndrome, which is characterized by missing bones and a low blood platelet count. \u2014 Brandi Addison, Dallas News , 3 Apr. 2020", "In China and South Korea, the tick is known to spread SFTSV, short for the Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus. \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 11 July 2019", "In Asia this tick has also been known to transmit potentially deadly viruses including ones that cause Japanese spotted fever and severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome\u2014conditions that can cause fever, vomiting and multiple organ failure. \u2014 Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American , 26 June 2018", "In humans, the ticks can carry diseases such as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which can have a fatality rate of up to 30 percent. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 June 2018", "What's more, according to CBS News, Longhorned ticks have been known to spread a deadly virus called SFTS, which stands for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome. \u2014 Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press , 10 May 2018", "Symptoms include fever, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leukocytopenia (low white blood cell count) and elevated serum enzyme levels. \u2014 Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living , 24 Apr. 2018", "That's a problem, because like the deer ticks that spread Lyme disease, East Asian ticks have been known to spread a deadly virus called SFTS, which stands for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome. \u2014 CBS News , 24 Apr. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from International Scientific Vocabulary thrombocyte + New Latin -o- + -penia":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1921, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-174348" }, "three-leaved hop tree":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": hop tree":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-182756" }, "threap":{ "type":[ "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": scold , chide":[], ": to maintain persistently":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113p" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English threpen , from Old English thr\u0113apian":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-190419" }, "thready":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments":[ "a thready bark" ], ": resembling a thread : filamentous":[], ": tending to form or draw out into strands : ropy":[], ": lacking in fullness, body, or vigor : thin":[ "a thready voice" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "-\u0113", "\u02c8thre-d\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Simard\u2019s transformative contribution to arboreal science has been to explain the function of mycorrhizal networks\u2014a webbing of thready fungi, reticulated through and expanding beyond tree roots, fastening trees to one another in the soil. \u2014 Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic , 17 June 2021", "Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready , fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed. \u2014 Maryn Mckenna, Scientific American , 19 May 2021", "Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock. \u2014 Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Aug. 2020", "Those on the brink of death \u2014 pale complexion, thready pulse \u2014 got red. \u2014 Matt Hamilton, latimes.com , 4 Oct. 2017", "Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit. \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian , 29 Mar. 2017", "Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit. \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian , 29 Mar. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-192154" }, "thrush":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of numerous small or medium-sized birds of an oscine family (Turdidae, the thrush family) or in some classifications a subfamily (Turdinae of the family Muscicapidae) which are mostly of a plain color often with spotted underparts and many of which are excellent singers":[], ": a suppurative disorder of the feet in various animals (such as a horse)":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0259sh" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrusche , from Old English thrysce ; akin to Old English throstle thrush, Old High German droscala , Latin turdus":"Noun", "probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish tr\u00f8ske thrush, Swedish torsk":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-195204" }, "thrasher shark":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": thresher sense 2":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-195629" }, "thrush blackbird":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": rusty blackbird":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-201353" }, "thrash out":{ "type":[ "phrasal verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to talk about (something) in order to make a decision, find a solution, etc.":[ "They had a meeting to thrash out their problems.", "thrash out a plan" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-015047" }, "threshing":{ "type":[ "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": thrash sense 3":[], ": to strike repeatedly":[], ": to thresh grain":[], ": thrash sense 2":[], ": thrash sense 1":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrash", "\u02c8thresh" ], "synonyms":[ "fiddle", "fidget", "jerk", "jig", "jiggle", "squiggle", "squirm", "thrash", "toss", "twist", "twitch", "wiggle", "wriggle", "writhe" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "threshing and harvesting at the same time", "the poor dog threshed against his chain", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Sep. 2019", "The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Aug. 2019", "Vintage tractors, trucks, cars and motorcycles will be on display, and there will be a Parade of Power, tractor pulls and demonstrations of threshing , horse plowing, butter churning, blacksmithing and more. \u2014 Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com , 29 July 2019", "Subrat Chandra Gayen, another resident of Joymoni, said nearly 80 percent of families have had to give up on rice farming, which once provided food and an income for most people in the area, including women who sowed, harvested, and threshed it. \u2014 Manipadma Jena, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 Mar. 2018", "In the San Joaquin Valley, beans are harvested by a machine called Big Bertha, which can pick and thresh fifty thousand pounds a day. \u2014 Junot D\u00edaz, The New Yorker , 17 Apr. 2018", "Deuteronomy 25:4 prohibits the muzzling of an ox that is threshing . \u2014 Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post , 29 Jan. 2018", "Sometimes scenes of hunting, netting fish, herding and butchering animals, threshing grain and other farming activities were carved or painted directly onto tomb walls, as in the exquisite murals at the ancient burial grounds at Saqqara near Cairo. \u2014 Salima Ikram, Smithsonian , 3 Feb. 2017", "Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 Sep. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thresshen , from Old English threscan ; akin to Old High German dreskan to thresh":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-021943" }, "thresher whale":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": killer sense 3":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-043251" }, "through train":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a train usually making a limited number of stops on which passengers may travel to a scheduled destination without changing to another train":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-051406" }, "three-leaved arum":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": jack-in-the-pulpit":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-053317" }, "thrilly":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": providing thrills : sensational":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "-l\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "thrill entry 2 + -y":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-054814" }, "through valley":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a depression or channel eroded across a divide by glacial ice or meltwater":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-061130" }, "thrimble":{ "type":[ "transitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to finger (as money) in a hesitating way":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\"", "\u02c8thrimb\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "origin unknown":"Transitive verb" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-070017" }, "three-master":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a 3-masted ship":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "obsolete English three-mast , adjective, having three masts (from English three entry 1 + mast , noun) + English -er":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-070221" }, "through-composed":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": having new music provided for each stanza \u2014 compare strophic":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u00fc-k\u0259m-\u02c8p\u014dzd" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1873, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-071941" }, "thromb-":{ "type":[ "combining form" ], "definitions":{ ": blood clot : clotting of blood":[ "thromb in", "thrombo plastic" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Greek thrombos clot":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-072047" }, "through the back door":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": in a secret or indirect way":[ "He managed to get into the private club through the back door because he has a friend who works there.", "accessing the computer security system through the back door" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-080042" }, "three-in-hand":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a team of three horses driven by one person":[], ": a vehicle drawn by a three-in-hand team":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-090642" }, "thrills":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to cause (someone) to experience a strong feeling of enjoyable excitement":[ "The news thrilled him.", "a performance that thrilled the crowd", "It's just one of the 35 breathtaking stunts the 47-year-old daredevil pilot uses to thrill spectators at airshows across the country.", "\u2014 Jean Bryant" ], "\u2014 see also thrilled , thrilling":[ "The news thrilled him.", "a performance that thrilled the crowd", "It's just one of the 35 breathtaking stunts the 47-year-old daredevil pilot uses to thrill spectators at airshows across the country.", "\u2014 Jean Bryant" ], ": to experience a surge of excitement and pleasure":[ "They thrilled to the sound of his voice.", "She remembers that her father thrilled to see his daughter's name in print \u2026", "\u2014 David Ansen", "From the beginning, Americans thrilled to the Hubble's potential to do dramatic science, to take us intellectually where no one has gone before.", "\u2014 Chet Raymo", "Kit thrilled at the sight of the familiar red coats.", "\u2014 Elizabeth George Speare" ], ": to move or pass so as to cause a sudden wave of emotion":[ "\u2026 a faint cold fear thrills through my veins \u2026", "\u2014 William Shakespeare" ], ": tremble entry 1 , vibrate":[ "\u2026 the very rocks seem to thrill with life.", "\u2014 John Muir" ], ": a feeling of great excitement or happiness":[ "The thrill isn't gone from our marriage after all this time.", "the thrill of discovery/victory", "\"The most fun thing I've done so far,\" [Dorothy] Parke reports, \"is put my foot through a window. It was only breakaway glass; but it was my first stunt, and it gave me such a thrill .\"", "\u2014 Paul Francis" ], ": a tingling of or as if of the nerves produced by a sudden emotional reaction":[ "a thrill of horror", "a thrill of pride/pleasure/anticipation", "Harry felt a thrill of dread: He was about to pay for what had just happened, he was sure of it.", "\u2014 J. K. Rowling" ], ": a very exciting or enjoyable event or experience":[ "What a thrill it was to see the Queen!", "a movie with a lot of thrills and chills [=exciting and frightening parts]", "the thrills and spills of skateboarding", "He had always fancied himself as having a fine voice, and now to hear it from his wife's own lips was a real thrill .", "\u2014 E. B. White" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thril" ], "synonyms":[ "charge", "electrify", "excite", "exhilarate", "galvanize", "intoxicate", "pump up", "titillate", "turn on" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Verb", "Circus performers still thrill audiences today.", "I was thrilled by their decision.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Gina Darling,Will Neff, Fiona Nova and Kassem G will thrill the audience with epic Attack shenanigans, exclusive merch giveaways, and answers to burning questions and scratching of burning itches! \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 July 2022", "The One Piece character will thrill anime-lovers across continents. \u2014 Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping , 12 May 2022", "Here, these shrubs provide early blooms that continue to thrill for a period of up to six weeks as different varieties chime in. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022", "Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts \u2014 whose members thrill to these exotics. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022", "While younger guests are exploring Camp Snoopy, others might head towards Shivering Timbers or Thunderhawk, which thrill guests with high-speed, airtime adventures. \u2014 Alec Brzezinski, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022", "And without a stupendous Fanny to thrill and distract, the musical\u2019s manifold faults become painfully evident. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Apr. 2022", "The game itself is a scary experience designed to thrill and unsettle. \u2014 Andy Robertson, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022", "And if those don't thrill you, former Disney Channel favorite Zac Efron feels the heat (and gets one heck of a sunburn) in a post-apocalyptic drama. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thirlen, thrillen to pierce, from Old English thyrlian , from thyrel hole, from thurh through \u2014 more at through entry 1":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3a":"Verb", "circa 1680, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-101501" }, "thread-worn":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": threadbare":[], ": worn in the thread":[ "a thread-worn screw" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-103149" }, "thromboembolism":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the blocking of a blood vessel by a particle that has broken away from a blood clot at its site of formation":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u014d-\u02c8em-b\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m", "\u02ccthr\u00e4m-b\u014d-\u02c8em-b\u0259-\u02ccliz-\u0259m" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "On June 21, the FDA approved Pradaxa, a blood thinner designed to treat venous thromboembolism in children between the ages of three and 12. \u2014 Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY , 31 Aug. 2021", "Venous thromboembolism refers to any blood clots that start in a vein, according to the American Heart Association. \u2014 Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY , 31 Aug. 2021", "According to a postmortem report by the coroner, the music manager suffered from a condition called pulmonary thromboembolism and deep leg vein thrombosis, another type of blood clot. \u2014 Rania Aniftos, Billboard , 17 Apr. 2019", "The study, published Tuesday in the BMJ, also found an association between exposure to this form of pollution and the risk of hospitalization for Parkinson's disease, diabetes, thrombophlebitis and thromboembolism . \u2014 Jen Christensen, CNN , 27 Nov. 2019", "What\u2019s more, some research on the subject suggests that black people are most vulnerable to venous thromboembolism , with a 30 to 60 percent higher risk of this potentially dire health issue than white people. \u2014 Patia Braithwaite, SELF , 30 July 2019", "The cause of death was from a pulmonary thromboembolism , resulting from a blood clot that originated in his leg. \u2014 Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com , 28 Mar. 2018", "According to a post-mortem report posted in the Coroner's website, Feldstein, 40, suffered from a condition detailed as pulmonary thromboembolism and deep leg vein thrombosis, another type of blood clot. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 19 Mar. 2018", "More blood clots In a September study published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, researchers investigated the link between height and venous thromboembolism , the third leading cause of heart attack and stroke. \u2014 Amanda Macmillan, Time , 8 Sep. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1895, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-105838" }, "Three Kings' Day":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": epiphany":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", 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parasites in dogs \u2014 can make human blood poisonous to mosquitoes. \u2014 Daniela Sternitzky-di Napoli, Houston Chronicle , 4 Apr. 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1802, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-182925" }, "thrasonical":{ "type":[ "adjective", "adverb" ], "definitions":{ ": of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso : bragging , boastful":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "thr\u0101-\u02c8s\u00e4-ni-k\u0259l", "thr\u0259-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Latin Thrason-, Thraso Thraso, braggart soldier in the comedy Eunuchus by Terence":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1564, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-183927" }, "thread fungus":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a fungus causing dermatomycosis":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], 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Josh Howgego, Scientific American , 11 July 2013", "When the winnowing\u2019s done, and the windbags and the mediocrities have all been blown out the side of the thresher , what will your verdict be? \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 9 Dec. 2020", "In the case of this large thresher in Libya, the female shark was lanced straight through the heart, and a blue shark found in 2016 off the coast of Spain had been stabbed in the brain. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Oct. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-190133" }, "three-syllable law":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a statement in grammar: in some languages (as Latin) the primary accent is limited to one of the last three syllables of a word":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195148" }, "through switch":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a snap switch installed in a length of flexible cord":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-195826" }, "three-quarter binding":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": bound like a half-bound book but having the material on the spine extended to cover about one third of the boards":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0113-\u02c8k(w)\u022f(r)-t\u0259r-\u02ccbau\u0307nd" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1951, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-202304" }, "thrummer":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u0259m\u0259(r)" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", 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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-221822" }, "Three in One":{ "type":[], "definitions":{ ": trinity":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220711-224340" }, "Thraupidae":{ "type":[ "plural noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a family of passerine birds comprising the tanagers and closely related to Fringillidae":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u022fp\u0259\u02ccd\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "New Latin, from Thraupis , type genus (from Greek thraupis , a small bird) + -idae":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-002457" }, "thrush lichen":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a lichen ( Peltigera apthosa ) held to cure thrush":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "thrush entry 2":"" 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"time_of_retrieval":"20220715-100936" }, "Thrasybulus":{ "type":[ "biographical name" ], "definitions":{ "died 388 b.c. 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proscenium-style living room sets. \u2014 Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant , 19 Apr. 2022", "The Taper\u2019s thrust stage makes the audience in the show a very visible and very visceral part of the action. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Feb. 2022", "The messaging of Ramos' set is amplified in the Mark Taper Forum, the thrust stage forcing the audience even more directly into the heart of things. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 17 Feb. 2022", "That maneuver is exponentially amplified at the Taper, where over 700 stadium-style seats surround the thrust stage like a semicircle. \u2014 Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022", "Crowley\u2019s powerfully simple set of plain screens stands deep down the huge thrust stage , with the audience wrapped around three sides. \u2014 David Benedict, Variety , 8 Dec. 2021", "Kokandy\u2019s production, directed here by Lucky Stiff, is even set up to feel like a music venue, with cabaret tables surrounding a thrust stage with a platform at the back. \u2014 Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com , 16 Nov. 2021", "The back platform contains a variety of musical instruments, played by the cast of seven, and the thrust stage is covered in layers of rugs. \u2014 Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com , 16 Nov. 2021", "The second and final phase encompasses most of the renovations, including adding flexible seating for up to 1,400 people, putting in a thrust stage that would extend into the audience and restoring the black light murals. \u2014 Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News , 4 Nov. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "thrust , past participle of thrust entry 1":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1965, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-051749" }, "threading machine":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": threader sense c":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-053622" }, "threadfin":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred-\u02ccfin" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Slow-troll a lively threadfin behind a planer board, and it might get smashed by a fat landlocked striper. \u2014 Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life , 30 Mar. 2020", "Hatches of a small feeder fish called threadfin shad are schooling and can attract bass and trout into feeding frenzies. \u2014 Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com , 21 Sep. 2019", "The browns have been feeding on small threadfin shad on the surface early and late in the day. \u2014 Tyler Mahoney Special To The Star, kansascity , 23 May 2018", "Minnows are working the best, but black and chartreuse plastic jigs are working well, along with Bobby Garland threadfin shad. \u2014 Tyler Mahoney Special To The Star, kansascity , 9 May 2018", "Maybe the threadfin dragonfish, with its winning smile and luminous purple photophore, will unlock the next big technological innovation. \u2014 Sonke Johnsen, National Geographic , 18 Apr. 2018", "Fishing: $6 daily permit per person (over age 16), funds used to buy and stock rainbow trout; use of threadfin shad for bait prohibited. \u2014 Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Apr. 2018", "The mussels feed on microscopic plankton - the base of the food chain that supports forage species such as threadfin shad. \u2014 Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle , 3 Mar. 2018", "Largemouth bass continue to be the top species as the bass are holding in current and becoming very active, feeding on the abundant threadfin shad and crawdads. \u2014 sacbee , 10 Oct. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1890, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-063033" }, "throbbing":{ "type":[ "intransitive verb", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity":[], ": to beat or vibrate rhythmically":[], ": beat , pulse":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4b" ], "synonyms":[ "beat", "palpitate", "pit-a-pat", "pitter-patter", "pulsate", "pulse" ], "antonyms":[ "beat", "beating", "palpitation", "pulsation", "pulse" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Verb", "Her finger throbbed with pain.", "The music throbs with a Caribbean beat.", "drums throbbing in the distance", "Noun", "the throb of the drums", "The pain has changed to a dull throb .", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "There are harmonies and operatic vocals, electronic and acoustic notes, throbbing bass lines and rock riffs, all which capture the euphoria of falling in love and the pits of heartache and tragedy. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 May 2020", "On Fridays, Saturdays and basically any given weeknight, my Brooklyn neighborhood is alive with throbbing house music, over-earnest open mics, DJ sets, roiling apartment bashes and cars blasting Reggaeton. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 1 Apr. 2020", "Zadina played the next night when the Wings hosted the Rangers, but throbbing pain prompted an X-ray, which revealed a fracture. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 7 Mar. 2020", "Its throbbing bassline and beat, paired with Sophie Hawley-Weld\u2019s angelic voice and Halpern\u2019s low growl, creates a delicious cocktail that is equal parts dirty, melodic and anthemic. \u2014 Billboard Staff, Billboard , 20 Dec. 2019", "She was especially impressed by the 50 or so drummers dressed in black mariachi costumes pounding out a throbbing rhythm toward the end. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2019", "His wrists throbbed in time with his heart and kept him awake at night. \u2014 Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads , 14 Mar. 2020", "My phone is throbbing with messages from family around the world, checking in on each other. \u2014 Laurie Penny, Wired , 14 Mar. 2020", "San Francisco throbbed red and gold Sunday as the 49ers tromped into the Super Bowl for the first time in seven years, with every conceivable sports bar rocking hard and block parties filling driveways and living rooms with screaming fans. \u2014 Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com , 2 Feb. 2020", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Austin Butler has been scoring raves for his chameleonic turn as Elvis Presley, charting his life and career from his early days as a gyrating heart throb through his corpulent coda as a Vegas regular. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 24 June 2022", "In the morning, the Hemi V8\u2019s cold-start cycle sounds like Jack Kennedy is firing up the old PT 109, but the engine quickly settles into a turgid throb . \u2014 Dan Neil, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2022", "The Half of It Rated PG-13 for brief language, teen drinking and the delicate throb of unrequited love. \u2014 Kyle Turner, New York Times , 1 May 2020", "Walking down a modern urban thoroughfare, the throb and dynamism of our benighted race is constantly on show. \u2014 The School Of Life, CNN , 27 May 2020", "Her songs continued to toggle between moments of twee intimacy and the collectivizing throb of the dance floor. \u2014 Hua Hsu, The New Yorker , 30 Mar. 2020", "This is how the human race ends: with the shallow clang of metal on metal, a squalling screech, the heavy stomp and throb of percussion. \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 21 Feb. 2020", "The sting of a paper cut or the throb of a dog bite is perceived through the skin, where cells react to mechanical forces and send an electrical message to the brain. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Jan. 2020", "After ten years, the pain of the Fallen Fifty has become a dull throb in the hearts of Potterheads, but with every re-watch, one death still hits just as hard: Fred Weasley. \u2014 Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen , 6 Jan. 2020" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English throbben":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb", "1578, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-063057" }, "threading tool":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a tool for cutting screw threads":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-071525" }, "thread lace":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": lace made of linen thread":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-072728" }, "threader":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": a filament, a group of filaments twisted together, or a filamentous length formed by spinning and twisting short textile fibers into a continuous strand":[], ": a piece of thread":[], ": any of various natural filaments":[ "the threads of a spiderweb" ], ": a slender stream (as of water)":[], ": a projecting helical rib (as in a fitting or on a pipe) by which parts can be screwed together : screw thread":[], ": something continuous or drawn out: such as":[], ": a line of reasoning or train of thought that connects the parts in a sequence (as of ideas or events)":[ "lost the thread of the story" ], ": a continuing element":[ "a thread of melancholy marked all his writing" ], ": a series of electronic messages (as on a message board or social media website) following a single topic or in response to a single message":[], ": a tenuous or feeble support":[ "hung on by a thread" ], ": clothing":[], ": to pass a thread through the eye of (a needle)":[], ": to arrange a thread, yarn, or lead-in piece in working position for use in (a machine)":[], ": to pass something through in the manner of a thread":[ "thread a pipe with wire" ], ": to pass (something, such as a tape, line, or film) into or through something":[ "threaded a fresh roll of film into the camera" ], ": to put together on or as if on a thread : string":[ "thread beads" ], ": to interweave with or as if with threads : intersperse":[ "dark hair threaded with silver" ], ": to form a screw thread on or in":[], ": weave sense 2":[ "the car threaded through traffic" ], ": to form a thread":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred" ], "synonyms":[ "bristle", "fiber", "filament", "hair" ], "antonyms":[ "interlace", "intersperse", "interweave", "lace", "salt", "weave", "wreathe" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Noun", "A thread was hanging from the hem of her coat.", "the unwary bug was snared in the sticky threads of the spider's web", "Verb", "She threaded her shoelace through the holes.", "thread film through a camera", "They had to thread their way through the crowd.", "Waiters threaded through the crowd.", "a river that threads through narrow valleys", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "The set, from Ukrainian artist Olesia Trofymenko, was the starting point for designer Maria Grazia Chiuri who returned this season to the atelier\u2019s needle-and- thread . \u2014 Thomas Adamson, ajc , 4 July 2022", "Kiki has spoken out against the trend in multiple TikTok videos and in a viral Twitter thread . \u2014 Ben Goggin, NBC News , 30 June 2022", "Fellow former Trump White House aide defends Hutchinson's character and testimony Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in the Trump White House who worked alongside Hutchinson, defended her character and testimony in a Twitter thread . \u2014 CBS News , 29 June 2022", "As highlighted in a Twitter thread by trademark attorney Josh Gerben, OSU first applied for the trademark in August 2019. \u2014 Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press , 22 June 2022", "Davis announced the move in a Sunday Twitter thread , putting to rest any concerns that the Punks\u2019 future would follow a similar path to the Bored Ape Yacht Club. \u2014 Fortune , 19 June 2022", "Chest tubes had to be inserted to drain internal bleeding; bowels had to be carefully resected by doctors working with needle and thread . \u2014 Phil Klay, The New Yorker , 11 June 2022", "In a Twitter thread posted two days after the May 24 massacre, the anonymous account, @mycancerjourne3, wrote that a representative of Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, offered to pay the grieving family to publicly oppose restrictive firearms policies. \u2014 Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022", "On Wednesday, the Onion\u2018s homepage featured all the past stories \u2014 nearly identical but for the datelines that mark the site of the carnage and photos that accompany them \u2014 and linked all the prior pieces in a long Twitter thread . \u2014 Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone , 25 May 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "That\u2019s the needle California is struggling to thread right now. \u2014 Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 30 June 2022", "Next, insert the stake into the plant's soil and thread the tube into a water reservoir. \u2014 Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens , 28 June 2022", "Sereno, the Los Gatos independent brokerage firm, is about to thread the eye of that needle. \u2014 Marcus Crowder, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 June 2022", "Now Turkish officials, who are working both with Moscow and Kyiv, are eyeing a plan to thread a passage through the mines and escort ships from ports such as Odessa to the safer waters in the Black Sea away from the war zone. \u2014 William Mauldin, WSJ , 16 June 2022", "It can be used to thread a needle from the past to the present for an end-to-end test of our understanding of the universe. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 23 May 2022", "Persistent chemicals like the pesticide DDT can thread through the bodies of animals long after they are banned. \u2014 Ed Yong, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022", "As the locations industry evolves rapidly, several cutting-edge concerns thread the proposals. \u2014 John Hopewell, Variety , 10 May 2022", "From cross-court skip passes, to behind-the-back dimes, Williams can thread the needle from the post, but against the Longhorns, the All-Big Ten third-teamer concentrated on exploiting mismatches and putting the ball in the hoop. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 21 Mar. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thred , from Old English thr\u01e3d ; akin to Old High German dr\u0101t wire, Old English thr\u0101wan to cause to twist or turn \u2014 more at throw entry 1":"Noun" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun", "14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-074422" }, "thread escutcheon":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a small plate outlining an opening (as a keyhole)":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-075332" }, "thrust spoiler":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a device intended to reduce the thrust of a jet engine (as by deflecting the jet of exhaust gases)":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220715-104018" }, "thrashes":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog":[], ": to defeat decisively or severely":[ "thrashed the visiting team" ], ": to swing, beat, or strike in the manner of a rapidly moving flail":[ "thrashing his arms" ], ": to go over again and again":[ "thrash the matter over inconclusively" ], ": to hammer out : forge":[ "thrash out a plan" ], ": to separate the seeds of from the husks and straw by beating : thresh sense 1":[], ": to move or stir about violently : toss about":[ "thrash in bed with a fever" ], ": to deal blows or strokes like one using a flail or whip":[], ": thresh sense 1":[], ": an act of thrashing":[], ": rock music (such as heavy metal or punk rock) that is extremely fast and loud":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrash" ], "synonyms":[ "annihilate", "blow away", "bomb", "bury", "clobber", "cream", "drub", "dust", "flatten", "paste", "rout", "shellac", "skin", "skunk", "smoke", "smother", "snow under", "trim", "tromp", "trounce", "wallop", "wax", "whip", "whomp", "whop", "whap", "whup" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for thrash Verb swing , wave , flourish , brandish , thrash mean to wield or cause to move to and fro or up and down. swing implies regular or uniform movement. swing the rope back and forth wave usually implies smooth or continuous motion. waving the flag flourish suggests vigorous, ostentatious, graceful movement. flourished the winning lottery ticket brandish implies threatening or menacing motion. brandishing a knife thrash suggests vigorous, abrupt, violent movement. an infant thrashing his arms about", "examples":[ "Verb", "He thrashed me with his belt.", "The team thrashed them last week.", "Something was thrashing wildly in the water.", "She thrashed around in her sleep.", "Noun", "The shark swam away with a thrash of its tail.", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Was that like for you to be thrashed around or thrash yourself around in that way? \u2014 Adam B. Vary, Variety , 25 May 2022", "The two parties signaled a willingness to thrash out the details of a funding strategy for the pipeline in coming days. \u2014 Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 May 2022", "Metallica came out of\u2014helped invent\u2014 thrash metal: speed, intricacy, overload. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 1 Jan. 2022", "Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022", "Hoping to avoid that fate, the league set a 5 p.m. Eastern deadline on Tuesday to thrash out an agreement. \u2014 Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News , 1 Mar. 2022", "With more money to buy and sell highly skilled players, teams at the top of the league can more reliably thrash their underfunded competitors who can\u2019t afford to stack their roster. \u2014 Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics , 22 Mar. 2022", "The venue\u2019s roster of upcoming concerts includes a variety of hip-hop, folk-punk, death metal and thrash bands. \u2014 Anne Nickoloff, cleveland , 4 Feb. 2022", "But even as the two sides potentially prepare to thrash out everything from U.S. sanctions to Iran\u2019s uranium enrichment, at least one key issue has been left off the nuclear negotiating table: the fate of four U.S. citizens being held in Iran. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "Not only did the band founded in 1984 by Max and Iggor Cavalera raise the profile of Brazil, where the brothers were born, but those albums continue to influence thrash and death metal. \u2014 Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022", "Slayer\u2019s Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman Scarier and more brutal than the rest of thrash \u2019s Big Four put together. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 30 Jan. 2022", "Initially scheduled for a 2020 run, this tour pairs with local thrash greats Sacred Reich Brazilian metal legends Sepultura, Crowbar and Art Of Shock. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 Apr. 2022", "These longtime veterans of the local metal scene describe their sound as Arizona stoner thrash . \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 1 Apr. 2022", "That is when thrash -metal pioneers Metallica lost an award\u2014the category now called best metal performance\u2014to Jethro Tull, a 1970s act whose music incorporates the flute. \u2014 Neil Shah, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2022", "The random thrashiest of thrash metal on intercity buses. \u2014 Artem Chapeye, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022", "Midnight, from the Cleveland streets Harvey Pekar once roamed, is still the one-man black- thrash game to beat on this side of the Earth or anywhere else. \u2014 Andy O'connor, SPIN , 15 Mar. 2022", "Kirk Hammett used to be in Exodus (another thrash metal band). \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "alteration of thresh":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "1568, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 4":"Verb", "1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-085513" }, "thread angle":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": angle of thread":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-090308" }, "through cut":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a cut with excavated slopes on both sides of the roadway":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-093702" }, "threadfoot":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": riverweed":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "so called from its threadlike leaves":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-093709" }, "threadle":{ "type":[ "transitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": thread":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred\u1d4al" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-094539" }, "thraw":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to cause to twist or turn":[], ": cross , thwart":[], ": twist , turn":[], ": to be in disagreement":[], ": ill humor":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English \u2014 more at throw entry 1":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb", "1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-094741" }, "thrilled to death/pieces":{ "type":[ "idiom" ], "definitions":{ ": very excited and pleased":[ "He was thrilled to death/pieces about the baby." ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100038" }, "threaden":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": made of thread":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thred\u1d4an" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English threden , from thred thread + -en":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-100109" }, "threshes":{ "type":[ "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": thrash sense 3":[], ": to strike repeatedly":[], ": to thresh grain":[], ": thrash sense 2":[], ": thrash sense 1":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrash", "\u02c8thresh" ], "synonyms":[ "fiddle", "fidget", "jerk", "jig", "jiggle", "squiggle", "squirm", "thrash", "toss", "twist", "twitch", "wiggle", "wriggle", "writhe" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "threshing and harvesting at the same time", "the poor dog threshed against his chain", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The hurricane with no name threshed across the Atlantic coast in mid-September 1713, ripping at tobacco crops and sending panicked colonists inland, where the storm's destructive power found them. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Sep. 2019", "The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Aug. 2019", "Vintage tractors, trucks, cars and motorcycles will be on display, and there will be a Parade of Power, tractor pulls and demonstrations of threshing , horse plowing, butter churning, blacksmithing and more. \u2014 Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com , 29 July 2019", "Subrat Chandra Gayen, another resident of Joymoni, said nearly 80 percent of families have had to give up on rice farming, which once provided food and an income for most people in the area, including women who sowed, harvested, and threshed it. \u2014 Manipadma Jena, The Christian Science Monitor , 19 Mar. 2018", "In the San Joaquin Valley, beans are harvested by a machine called Big Bertha, which can pick and thresh fifty thousand pounds a day. \u2014 Junot D\u00edaz, The New Yorker , 17 Apr. 2018", "Deuteronomy 25:4 prohibits the muzzling of an ox that is threshing . \u2014 Karen Swallow Prior, Washington Post , 29 Jan. 2018", "Sometimes scenes of hunting, netting fish, herding and butchering animals, threshing grain and other farming activities were carved or painted directly onto tomb walls, as in the exquisite murals at the ancient burial grounds at Saqqara near Cairo. \u2014 Salima Ikram, Smithsonian , 3 Feb. 2017", "Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll. \u2014 National Geographic , 18 Sep. 2017" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thresshen , from Old English threscan ; akin to Old High German dreskan to thresh":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-101629" }, "thrust shaft":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the length of a propeller shaft provided with collars for resisting the end thrust of the propeller and held by the thrust bearing":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-105222" }, "thrawart":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": stubborn":[], ": crooked":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thr\u00e4-w\u0259rt" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English (Scots), alteration of Middle English fraward, froward froward":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-105756" }, "thrapple":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": throat , windpipe":[ "\u2014 used especially of the horse" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrap\u0259l" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "alteration of thropple":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-105924" }, "threadleaf":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": having long slender leaves":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113209" }, "thrap":{ "type":[ "transitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": frap sense 2":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thrap" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "by alteration":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113437" }, "thread eel":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": snipe eel":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113710" }, "thrush nightingale":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a large nightingale ( Luscinia luscinia ) of eastern Europe":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-115102" }, "thre-":{ "type":[ "combining form" ], "definitions":{ ": threose":[ "thre itol" ], ": having the same stereochemical arrangement of two asymmetric carbon atoms as that found in threose":[ "threo -3-chloro-2-butanol" ] }, 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"\u02c8thr\u00e4n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English (Scots) thrawin , from past participle of Middle English thrawen to twist":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125347" }, "thring":{ "type":[ "intransitive verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to press or push ahead in or as if in a throng":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8thri\u014b" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thringen , from Old English thringan":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-132349" }, "thrinter":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a three-year-old sheep":[], ": being three years old":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\"", "\u02c8thrint\u0259(r)" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "thr(ee) + w 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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-225857" }, "three forks":{ "type":[ "geographical name" ], "definitions":{ "locality in southwestern Montana where the Missouri River is formed by the confluence of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and Madison rivers population 1203":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-232617" }, "three-color theory":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a theory of color vision that assumes three psychologically primary colors":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220712-233258" }, "thread-needle":{ "type":[ "intransitive verb", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a children's game in which all join hands and the leader followed by the other players passes under the arched arms of those at the other end":[], ": a 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over the Florida Space Coast. \u2014 Christian Davenport, Washington Post , 20 May 2022", "The thruster hitch did not impact the overall mission, as the Starliner is equipped with backups, Boeing and NASA officials told reporters. \u2014 Jackie Wattles, CNN , 25 May 2022", "The craft has only a few major thruster firings left on its way to the station. \u2014 Christian Davenport, Washington Post , 20 May 2022", "The first Western use of a Russian Hall thruster was on, of all things, a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellite in 1998. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022", "Components from the Russian segment are responsible for the periodic thruster firings that maintain the ISS in its proper orbit some 250 miles above Earth. \u2014 Aylin Woodward, WSJ , 15 Mar. 2022", "At the most basic level, to keep the station flying, Russia provides fuel and thruster capability to periodically re-boost the space station to a higher altitude. \u2014 Eric Berger, Ars Technica , 7 Mar. 2022", "Whatever caused the problems with the spacecraft\u2019s thruster Friday did not recur as the film crew and Novitsky departed the station Saturday night. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 Oct. 2021", "But as scientists tested the observatory, problems began to emerge: tears in the paper-thin sun shield, leaks in the thruster valves, poorly installed nuts and bolts falling from the assembly. \u2014 Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com , 17 Dec. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1597, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220713-033436" }, "thrusts":{ "type":[ "noun", "verb" ], "definitions":{ ": to push or drive with force : shove":[], ": to cause to enter or pierce something by or as if by pushing":[ "thrust a dagger into his heart" ], ": extend , spread":[], ": stab , pierce":[], ": to put (someone, such as an unwilling person) forcibly into a course of action or position":[ "was thrust into the job" ], ": to introduce often improperly into 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play before and has thrust into the middle of the scene unexpectedly. \u2014 Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes , 28 June 2022", "The Justice Department\u2019s top officials discredited his fraud claims and refused to thrust the baseless suggestion of voting fraud onto state election officials. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 20 June 2022", "Juneteenth\u2019s popularity has waxed and waned over the decades, but was thrust back into the public interest with racial justice movements demanding more political capital, especially in the aftermath of George Floyd\u2019s murder in 2020. \u2014 Michelle Garcia, NBC News , 19 June 2022", "His houses were frequently located in unusual locations, embedded within a canyon\u2019s narrow walls or thrust above a rocky beach. \u2014 Harrison Smith, Washington Post , 14 June 2022", "In 2019, the transportation committee held one to dig into failures at the Registry of Motor Vehicles after a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire thrust the Registry into crisis. \u2014 Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com , 21 June 2022", "An elbow injury to senior Nick Bassi thrust Gomez into a bigger role and the sidewinder thrived. \u2014 Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star , 19 June 2022", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "This issue of being treated fairly has been the thrust for much of the delays at committee, with Ald. \u2014 Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 May 2022", "Such an approach has been a central thrust for Mr. Biden, who during the 2020 campaign said Russia was the greatest foreign policy challenge for the United States in the medium term, and China the biggest in the long term. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Feb. 2022", "But that, in an odd way, is not even the thrust of the documentary. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 31 Jan. 2022", "Though Chen, who became a U.S. citizen in 2000, is not accused of stealing secrets and sharing them with China, which is a central thrust of the China Initiative. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Jan. 2022", "The only force remaining will be the thrust from the engines, so the speed of the spaceship should increase. \u2014 Rhett Allain, Wired , 3 Dec. 2021", "Therefore, creating a coaching-centric culture should be a key thrust of the larger organizational transformation narrative and agenda. \u2014 Thomas Lim, Forbes , 20 Sep. 2021", "And the spending, while significant, wasn\u2019t really the thrust of the New Deal. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 30 Aug. 2021", "Trump's rhetoric is only the leading edge of what will be a main thrust of the Republican argument against total Democratic control in Washington heading into the 2022 midterm elections. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 7 June 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English thrusten, thristen , from Old Norse thr\u0233sta ; probably akin to Old Norse thrj\u014dta to tire, Old English thr\u0113at coercion \u2014 more at threat":"Verb" }, "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning 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