What's the difference between discobolus and thrower?

Discobolus


Definition:

  • (n.) A thrower of the discus.
  • (n.) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Real Eritreans love their country.” A sticker with the words “I love Eritrea” adorns a locker in the offices of the government-backed National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students , whose courtyard has a full-size replica of the classical statue Discus-thrower (Discobolus).

Thrower


Definition:

  • (n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
  • (2) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
  • (3) Still, the Croydon thrower is level-headed enough to know not to get carried away.
  • (4) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
  • (5) of each thrower, hammer and thrower-hammer system were calculated.
  • (6) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
  • (7) Eight highly-skilled hammer throwers were studied using film analysis procedures.
  • (8) In 1987, when the first intifada erupted, Rabin was the defence minister who threatened to “break the bones” of the young stone-throwers confronting the occupation.
  • (9) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
  • (10) In the horizontal direction, the c.m.s of the thrower and of the hammer followed roughly trochoid patterns as a result of the combination of rotation with forward displacement across the throwing circle.
  • (11) Both early diastolic function, estimated from the velocity of LV relaxation and the LV inflow pattern, and late diastolic function, assessed by Doppler velocimetry, were similar in throwers and controls.
  • (12) The binding of rat uterine cytosol oestrogen receptor in vitro to oligo(dT)-cellulose is mediated by an activating factor in the cytosol [Thrower, Hall, Lim & Davison (1976) Biochem.
  • (13) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
  • (14) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
  • (15) In sportsmen-throwers the matinal exchange of rest in conditions of sport gatherings is found to be fairly high.
  • (16) An impingement occurring between the deep side of the supraspinatus tendon and the posterosuperior edge of the glenoid cavity was evidenced in a young sports thrower presenting with a partial tear of the deep side of the tendon.
  • (17) She has played Alien: Isolation, of course ("The flame-thrower is very good," she drawls) and is intrigued by the immersive story-telling possibilities of the medium.
  • (18) Another supposed coup-plotter was incinerated with a flame-thrower.
  • (19) In some throwers, gravity and the forward translation of the system produce most of the fluctuation; in others, a marked fluctuation remains after the effects of gravity and of the forward translation of the system have been subtracted out.
  • (20) His fellow throwers have certainly embraced their new star.

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