toss
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (6)tosses, tossed, tossing
- throw or toss with a light motion“flip me the beachball”“toss me newspaper”Synonyms: flipskypitchMore general flingMore specific throw back, submarine, lag
- lightly throw to see which side comes up“I don't know what to do — I may as well flip a coin!”Synonyms: flipMore general turn
- throw carelessly“chuck the ball”Synonyms: chuckMore general throw, loft
- move or stir about violently“The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed”Synonyms: convulsethreshthresh aboutthrashthrash aboutslashjactitateMore general shake, agitateMore specific whip
- throw or cast away“Put away your worries”Synonyms: discardflingtoss outtoss awaychuck outcast asidedisposethrow outcast outthrow awaycast awayput awayMore general get rid of, removeMore specific dump, abandon, trash, sell out, retire, unlearn, deep-six, de-access, close out, jettison
- agitate“toss the salad”More general agitate, vexMore specific tumbleInvolves mix, mingle
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Translations
Noun throw, a lob, of a ball
Verb to throw with an initial upward direction
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch.
1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.— Joseph Addison
3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.— Act xxvii. 18.
4. To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.— John Milton
5. Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.— George Herbert
6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. obsolete Roger Ascham
To toss off, (a) to drink hastily. (b) to accomplish easily or quickly. (c) to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment. (d) to masturbate; — British slang. — To toss the cars.See under Oar, noun
1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.— John Tilllotson
2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. William Shakespeare
To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. — To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.
1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Jonathan Swift
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<project> (TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level of the login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics.
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