(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(4) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(5) The derived data lacks specificity, however, and, as such, is frequently misleading.
(6) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(7) Serological findings in five cases where Paul-Bunnel Davidsohn (PBD) test results were misleading, are presented.
(8) Second, the commonly drawn analogy between blocking in randomized trials and matching in cohort studies is misleading when one considers the impact of matching on covariate distributions.
(9) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(10) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(11) The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically.
(12) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(13) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
(14) This report indicates that hepatic copper levels vary greatly in acute liver failure, and that estimates from a single biopsy specimen may be misleading as to the cause of the underlying liver disease.
(15) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(16) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(17) Again, the government is deliberately misleading the public by aggregating figures over an area which no one would describe as theirs.
(18) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(19) We therefore conclude that the clinical management of bronchiolitis requires close monitoring of body wt and plasma osmolality-urinary osmolality relationship; serum sodium levels may be misleading.
(20) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.
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.