(v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
(v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
(v. i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
(v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
(v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
(n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
(n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
(n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
(n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
(2) He brushes past Felipe Melo and flings himself to the floor.
(3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
(4) You can see why retailers do everything in their power to lure them in, including flinging open shop doors.
(5) Helen aka helenlhelen I became pregnant after an ill-advised fling with a much older man.
(6) The kid isn’t feeding a penguin; he’s just flinging fish fingers on to the floor.
(7) At one point she had a bodyguard who would take her to the bank to deposit her takings.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knight’s second-place depiction of a highland fling.
(8) Djokovic, though flings his entire corporeal into a forehand that near enough wins the point, and then forces Nadal to save a break point.
(9) I know someone whose entire circle of friends consists of ex-flings.
(10) Meanwhile in the American League... Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Benches clear in Detroit as Martinez and Balfour fling expletives but no punches thrown.
(11) It's a shame he can't just ramble on about his obsessions onscreen, flinging himself from point to point.
(12) [But] it does make me chuckle a little bit when Bernie flings around the word ‘revolution’.
(13) Gerrard flings over another free kick, much like the ones Liverpool scored from, but it evades everyone at the far post, and drifts away.
(14) The visitors might have been spurred into a riposte by a sense of injustice that Branislav Ivanovic was not penalised for going to ground too easily in first-half stoppage time, but by the time Allardyce reacted to fling on Song and Diafra Sakho just before the hour, a salvage mission was unlikely.
(15) Costa has managed only one goal in six Premier League appearances – he had scored eight at the corresponding stage last term – and has now completed a three-match suspension having been banned retrospectively for flinging an arm at Laurent Koscielny during the victory over Arsenal last month.
(16) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(17) Cahill and Emerson tangled in the last minute, the Corinthians player appearing to fling out an arm to provoke a reaction, then feigning agony after the centre-half had flicked out his shin in riposte.
(18) Once in power, relations between the two soured, with stories of Brown flinging telephones across his office in frustration.
(19) We had canisters of it with lumps in – and a catapult to fling it.
(20) He is flinging canvases around as though they were sacks of coal.
Trow
Definition:
(n.) A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish.
(v. i. & t.) To believe; to trust; to think or suppose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cllr Steve Trow Labour, Sandwell council, West Midlands
(2) An initial research centre has been formed to try to trow light upon the origins of such disagreements and we are now pleased to report back their initial findings.
(3) Pythium ultimum Trow and Pythium debaryanum (Hesse) were proved in rhizosphere of emerging sugar-beet.
(4) A high parasitic ability of Pythium oligandrum on Pythium ultimum Trow, P. debaryanum Hesse, and Aphanomyces laevis De By species was proved in this study of relationships among these fungi, commonly populating the rhizosphere of emerging sugar beet.