What's the difference between flip and throw?

Flip


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
  • (v. t.) To toss or fillip; as, to flip up a cent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Variations in image orientation, repetition time (TR), and flip angle were evaluated to determine their effects on flow-related enhancement.
  • (2) After 2 weeks of chronic exposure to 75 mM EtOH, crayfish showed behavioral tolerance as measured by a decrease in righting time and an increase in tail-flip escape behavior to control levels.
  • (3) The future prospects include shorter imaging times owing to fast-imaging sequences (short T1 with partial flip angle).
  • (4) 3) Just as lipids do not flip-flop, proteins do not rotate across the membrane.
  • (5) Two fast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques, advanced Fourier and partial-flip imaging, were used at 0.35 T to examine 21 patients with suspected intracranial lesions; the results were quantitatively compared with a conventional spin-echo study.
  • (6) The presence of the flip-flop phenomenon in an I-131 Hippuran renal study suggests the existence of some degree of collecting system obstruction that has persisted long enough to result in renal parenchymal damage.
  • (7) I've never flipped homes, even when I was a minister – my main home has always been in my constituency.
  • (8) For MR angiography 2D inflow (multiple-single-slice-technique, TR 40 ms, TE 14 ms, flip angle 60 degrees) and flow-adjusted-gradient-sequences (TR 24 ms, TE 10 ms, flip angle 60 degrees) were performed.
  • (9) Telomeres were generated from both arms of the substrate with equal efficiency, and contained the characteristic "flip" and "flop" sequence inversions observed in vivo.
  • (10) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
  • (11) This value is similar to that obtained for the transbilayer "flip-flop" of phosphatidylcholine molecules in a similar system (Kornberg and McConnell, 1971).
  • (12) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
  • (13) Hold the left side of the nori with both hands and flip over on the mat, so that the rice is facing down.
  • (14) This suggests that generalizations on the kinetics of nonmediated flip-flop of membrane-intercalated amphiphiles may not be justified.
  • (15) Her agony and her rapture stay interior, and they flip-flop like nerves in this beautiful, grave black-and-white movie.
  • (16) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (17) The story of the transfer window is the story of a flip-flop by the English elite – the Premier League was initially the driving force behind the idea of a transfer window, but by the time it was introduced it was firmly in the "no" camp.
  • (18) Overall, optimum clot-flow contrast for imaging of both DHb and MHb clots was achieved with a flip angle of 45 degrees-60 degrees, a TR of 50 msec, and the shortest TE possible.
  • (19) and lot of them seemed to be mad about missing out on Austin - as ESPN's Jane McManus notes: Jane McManus (@janesports) I did see at least one Jets fan flip the bird in frustration after Goodell announced Tavon Austin to the Rams.
  • (20) Stimulated echoes can be excited by a sequence of at least three rf pulses with flip angles of 90 degrees or less.

Throw


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
  • (n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
  • (n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
  • (v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
  • (v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
  • (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
  • (v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
  • (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
  • (v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
  • (v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
  • (v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
  • (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
  • (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
  • (n.) A stroke; a blow.
  • (n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
  • (n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
  • (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
  • (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
  • (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
  • (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
  • (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
  • (4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
  • (6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
  • (14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
  • (15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
  • (17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
  • (19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
  • (20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.