What's the difference between throw and topple?

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.

Topple


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
  • (v. t.) To throw down; to overturn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia – three countries that toppled three dictators nearly four years ago – 2014 marked something of a comeback for the concept of strongman leadership.
  • (2) The Attlee government was toppled by peacetime austerity that voters no longer trusted.
  • (3) "It was not just about toppling the old regime but about building a state where people can have freedom, dignity, rule of law and social justice."
  • (4) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
  • (5) Liu, 61, was jailed in 2009 for allegedly trying to topple China’s one-party state.
  • (6) By now, some MPs loyal to Corbyn had got wind of a plot to topple him that was more serious than the Hodge and Coffey no-confidence vote, with one claiming there was a Whatsapp messaging conversation among frontbenchers known as the Birthday Group.
  • (7) Those who want to see Corbyn toppled as leader disagree about the best way to go about it.
  • (8) After 32 years in power Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, looks destined to become the next Arab leader to be toppled as 11 military commanders, including a senior general, defected from the regime, promising to protect anti-government protesters in the capital.
  • (9) Large parts of the UK have been battered with a second wave of 100mph-plus gales inside 48 hours, causing serious road and rail disruption as the wind toppled a large number of trees.
  • (10) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
  • (11) Sinai-based insurgents, affiliates of Islamic State (Isis), have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.
  • (12) The military toppled Morsi three days later, then launched a massive crackdown on the Islamist movement, arresting leaders including Shater and Bayoumi, rounding up field organisers and shutting down Islamic TV networks.
  • (13) They accused the decree of attempting to topple the legal state, make Morsi a God whose decisions cannot be reviewed and build a dictatorship unlike any other Egypt has ever witnessed.
  • (14) Leftwing and liberal parties have called for an open-ended sit-in aimed at "toppling" the decree.
  • (15) Our peaceful revolution will continue until we topple Saleh and establish a civilian state."
  • (16) The al-Qatif governorate of Eastern Province, bordering the Gulf, has been the setting for anti-regime agitation since at least 1979, when Saudi Shias demonstrated in support of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose Islamic revolution in Iran that year toppled the shah.
  • (17) Barack Obama portrayed his plans for US military action in Syria as part of a broader strategy to topple Bashar al-Assad, as tougher White House rhetoric began to win over sceptical Republicans in Congress on Tuesday .
  • (18) The fighters are mainly former rebels who toppled Gaddafi with the aid of Nato air strikes.
  • (19) In a carefully worded statement, Obama said he was "deeply concerned" by the military's move to topple Morsi's government and suspend Egypt's constitution.
  • (20) By toppling Gaddafi, Nato interfered with the order of things.