(v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
(v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
(v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
(v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
(v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
(v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
(v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
(v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
(n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(3) "We realise that it's an election time and these issues are tossed back and forth, but regardless of who leads Australia, we will look to them for action."
(4) The jury concluded Duggan had tossed the gun away and was not holding a weapon when surrounded by police marksmen.
(5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(6) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(7) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
(8) In one email, an aide suggests she should “toss a wrench at someone”.
(9) Campbell got the parents to play a simple game in which one team tried to flip some cones over one way and the other to flip them the other way – to illustrate the point that when parents are not united in their approach, children will feel like the cones being tossed about.
(10) Kazakhstan win the toss and the warring cheersquads go quiet for now.
(11) Their appetite for double entendres on Bake Off - which prompted a complaint to the BBC’s Points of View that they get “smuttier and smuttier, and it is totally unnecessary” - was already evident at Light Lunch when word came down from on high at Channel 4 that there were too many references to “tossing a salad”.
(12) I was having some tapas and a large bottle of wine as I was flicking through Facebook and I said: ‘Who should I nominate?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jennifer Mitchell, law student Labour & Liverpool: Jennifer Mitchell interview After tossing about some names, her boyfriend suggested her father.
(13) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
(14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
(15) 10.32am BST The toss Cook has won it, and England are going to have a bowl.
(16) One throwaway moment with him tossing a hat into a van, I thought, well, nothing much we can do with that, but Will made it work beautifully.
(17) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
(18) I think retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy.” The idea to march was first tossed around on a Reddit thread in January.
(19) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Flatbread, baked golden and crispy, tossed in a light salad and dressing.
(20) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.
Welter
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bitter battle between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham for tenancy of the stadium, which originally cost £429m to build, was won by the east London club but the deal was later scrapped due to "legal paralysis" amid a welter of challenges.
(2) Photograph: Gordon Welters for the Guardian Sometimes a tour around the Pergamon, which hosts one of the oldest and largest collection of Arab artefacts outside the Arab world, enables a debate that is not easily had inside a crowded refugee shelter.
(3) Young caused controversy by saying Britons had "never had it so good" in this "so-called recession", prompting frustration in No 10 and provoking a welter of criticism from Labour.
(4) A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: “For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised.” In a message to the Independent staff, the Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, said she was “really saddened” by the news that the titles were to be printed for the last time next month .
(5) Germany's bureaucratic stasis contrasts with a welter of events, official and unofficial, digital, public and private, in the other former belligerent countries.
(6) To try to keep up with the welter of environmental claims, test the green spin and spot the green frauds, the Guardian is launching today a regular online column, Greenwash, and calls on readers to submit their examples of the fraudulent, mendacious, confusing, ignorant or just daft claims jostling for our attention.
(7) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
(8) But it is the Kochs' links to a welter of mass mobilisation campaigns opposing Barack Obama that is making the biggest impact.
(9) In the welter of clinical trials, some "commonsense" fundamentals have been lost or submerged, while other ideas seem to have become "modern myths."
(10) The postwar period also shows Wodehouse recognising that the tenor of his fictional universe rode uneasily with the contemporary moment, with its "welter of sex" and "demand for gloom and tragedy".
(11) Chelsea Manning has posted a handwritten letter on her new Twitter feed explaining how her tweets are communicated from military prison in a move designed to quash a welter of internet conspiracy theories claiming the feed is a fraud.
(12) Sands said of last year’s difficulties: “We faced a perfect storm: negative sentiment towards emerging markets, a sharp drop in commodity prices, persistent low interest rates and surplus liquidity, low volatility, and a welter of regulatory challenges.” He navigated the bank through the financial crisis after being promoted from finance director to chief executive in 2006.
(13) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
(14) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(15) BCCI was finally shut down in 1991, amid a welter of fraud and corruption charges, with outstanding debts of $10bn.
(16) Did he believe that trying to manage the news with injudicious leaks was a clever manoeuvre in the face of such a welter of negative information emerging about the company on an hourly basis?
(17) The proposal is the most controversial of a welter of ideas that have emerged from the commission, based on the recommendations of its 10 members and more than 300 interviews with stakeholders across the game.
(18) The next two years will be marked by a welter of government reviews,,culminating in the renewal of the BBC's royal charter in 2006.
(19) Market jitters over Europe's debt crisis returned after weeks of relative calm on Wednesday amid a welter of grim statistics from some of the biggest European economies, mixed signals from bickering eurozone political leaders, and mass protests against austerity in southern Europe .
(20) If this remains the truth, it has been somewhat lost in the welter of bad publicity, recrimination and farce that has surrounded the Police Federation of England and Wales over the last year, a period in which Steve Williams , its chairman, has been roundly condemned as a "traitor, a dictator, and an emperor".