(n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
(n.) The chief or most important part.
(n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
(a.) Done beforehand; anticipative.
Example Sentences:
(1) She thought it was going out but it landed in - she hooked it back and Sharapova netted an easy forehand!
(2) They trade shots from the baseline, until Dimitrov changes approach with a low slice, causing Murray to net a forehand.
(3) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
(4) During deuce, we are treated to some absurdity from both players, but Kyrgios then misses a forehand to give Nadal another set point.
(5) Once it does, he's in a spot of bother and Murray is able to punish a forehand into the corner for 0-15.
(6) In some instances, this difference in accuracy can be attributed to the fact that the intermediate players were unaware of what the telegraphic cues were (e.g., backhand shots) while, in other situations, the difference in prediction ability is primarily due to the intermediate players' more frequent failure to detect the presence of known telegraphic cues (i.e., forehand shots).
(7) Telemetry EMG was used to assess the muscle activity of the anterior deltoid and the forearm extensor muscles during the forehand and backhand strokes of tennis in a selected group of test subjects.
(8) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
(9) Murray then nets a forehand to make it 0-40 and I can't stop thinking about that forehand he missed at 15-30 in the previous game.
(10) He gets his serve back, it's slow, but he takes Dimitrov's return and powers the forehand into the far corner to round out the game and lock in his break.
(11) If the ninth-seed is exhausted after yesterday's bracing defeat of Sharapova, she is doing well not to show it, lashing her left-handed forehands to the corners and surging to break point in the seventh game.
(12) The first match point is saved with a beauty of a forehand down the line, but not the second, Murray sending one last horrible forehand into the net.
(13) Oh, they're really into this now, what a ridiculous pair of ridiculous individuals they really are - and Nadal takes control of the point, pinning Djokovic in the forehand corner and punishing him to seize the advantage with an angled volley at the net.
(14) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
(15) Updated at 5.36pm BST 5.28pm BST Third set: *Djokovic 4-6, 6-3, 3-3 Nadal (*denotes server) At 15-all, a ridiculous point, Nadal the aggressor, winging forehands to Djokovic's backhand corner, before the opportunity to play a drop presents itself.
(16) This is the first time Murray's put any real pressure on Federer's ser... oh, wait, 30-all, a pummelling forehand down the line from Federer.
(17) A study of the host and tissue specificity of the various Rickettsiella actually known must be defined forehand the impact of the metabolism of host cells on the appearance and structure of these bodies.
(18) So that's 1-1 on Twitter allez es (that's the plural of allez , obviously): Brando Florente (@BrandoJablan) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on Nole June 8, 2014 joseph langton (@jnlangton) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on raffa June 8, 2014 2.24pm BST First set: Djokovic* 2-1 Nadal Djokovic nets a straightforward backhand to go 0-15 down, but an ace, a powerful crosscourt forehand from halfway down the court and then a fearsome, thunderous rally that ends with Nadal slapping a forehand into the net puts him firmly in control of the game.
(19) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(20) The error from Dimitrov never arrives; instead Murray nets a forehand to make it 15-40.
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.