(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.