Throw-off Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.

I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses.
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(idiomatic) To introduce errors or inaccuracies; to skew.

The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results.
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noun

(UK) A start in a hunt or a race.

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(handball) A throw taken from the centre line which resumes play after each goal and at the start of each period.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Throw-off

Noun

Singular:
throw-off
Plural:
throw-offs

Throw-off Sentence Examples

  • The northern part of Tuscany is indeed occupied to a considerable extent by the underfalls and offshoots of the Apennines, which, besides the slopes and spurs of the main range that constitutes its northern frontier towards the plain of the Po, throw off several outlying ranges or groups.

  • During his reign Poland suffered much humiliation from the attempts of her subject principalities, Prussia and Moldavia, to throw off her yoke.

  • Many of the gumtrees throw off their bark, so that it hangs in long dry strips from the trunk and branches, a feature familiar in " bush " pictures.

  • These static and kinetic conditions succeed each other rapidly, and the result is to detach or throw off from the antenna semi-loops of electric force, which move outwards in all directions and are accompanied by expanding circular lines of magnetic force.

  • This phenomenon is connected with the fact that incandescent bodies, especially in rarefied gases, throw off or emit electrons or gaseous negative ions.

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