What's the difference between lance and throw?

Lance


Definition:

  • (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
  • (n.) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
  • (n.) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
  • (n.) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
  • (n.) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
  • (v. t.) To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
  • (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess.
  • (v. t.) To throw in the manner of a lance. See Lanch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.17pm BST Meanwhile... Lance Lynn is having a bad day over at Busch Stadium.
  • (2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
  • (3) Lance Sergeant Darren Shaw, whose daughter was two weeks old when he left for Afghanistan, said the parade would bring closure to the Afghan tour "then we can get ready and move on to what our next tasks are".
  • (4) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
  • (5) Six years and three months on, it was Landis's predecessor, Lance Armstrong in the eye of the storm as speculation built over what he might or might not have revealed to Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (7) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (8) Lance Armstrong held the meanest grudges in cycling, in effect ruining the career of Christophe Bassons after the French rider dared to talk publicly about doping.
  • (9) He said the "blue on blue" death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard in Sangin during their tour in the winter of 2009-10 was symptomatic of the problems British soldiers faced in tackling the Taliban.
  • (10) Cardinals 6 Brewers 4 Top 3rd: Lance Berkman follows Pujols with a ground out to second.
  • (11) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
  • (12) It is a major blow to the image of a team that commissioned anti-doping consultant Nicki Vance to conduct an independent review of their operations and staff in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lance Stephenson has become unstuck in time.
  • (14) And it worked by finally lancing the boil that had been swelling ugly all week.
  • (15) In the chaos that followed, and believing he was firing at an insurgent, a sniper, Lance Corporal Malcolm Graham, took aim.
  • (16) In the wake of the Lance Armstrong case , the revelations emerging from the Operation Puerto trial in Spain and the dire picture painted by the Australian Crime Commission investigation into organised crime and drugs, the Wada director general David Howman has admitted the problem is getting "bigger and more serious" and is "getting too big for sport to manage".
  • (17) This is the first reference in the medical literature of the unilateral localization in the Lance-Adams syndrome.
  • (18) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
  • (19) Previous experiments had shown that motoneurons are specified to project to their appropriate target muscles prior to axon outgrowth and that they respond to cues in the limb in order to grow to those targets (C. Lance-Jones and L. Landmesser, 1980, J. Physiol.
  • (20) I got Lance’s number from one of the boys at St Helens.

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.