The difference between Shy and Throw

When used as nouns, shy means an act of throwing, whereas throw means the flight of a thrown object.

When used as verbs, shy means to avoid due to timidness or caution, whereas throw means to twist or turn.

Shy is also adjective with the meaning: easily frightened.

check bellow for the other definitions of Shy and Throw

  1. Shy as an adjective:

    Easily frightened; timid.

  2. Shy as an adjective:

    Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

    Examples:

    "He is very shy with strangers."

  3. Shy as an adjective:

    Cautious; wary; suspicious.

  4. Shy as an adjective (informal):

    Short, insufficient or less than.

    Examples:

    "By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount."

    "It is just shy of a mile from here to their house."

  5. Shy as an adjective:

    Embarrassed.

  1. Shy as a verb (intransitive):

    To avoid due to timidness or caution.

    Examples:

    "I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand."

  2. Shy as a verb (intransitive):

    To jump back in fear.

    Examples:

    "The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse."

  3. Shy as a verb (transitive):

    to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling

    Examples:

    "to shy a stone; to shy a slipper"

    "rfquotek T. Hughes"

  1. Shy as a noun:

    An act of throwing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Thackeray"

  2. Shy as a noun:

    A place for throwing.

    Examples:

    "coconut shy"

  3. Shy as a noun:

    A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

  4. Shy as a noun:

    In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.

  1. Throw as a verb (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England):

    To twist or turn.

    Examples:

    "A thrown nail. "

  2. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.

    Examples:

    "'throw a shoe; throw a javelin; the horse threw its rider"

  3. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To eject or cause to fall off.

  4. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To move to another position or condition; to displace.

    Examples:

    "'throw the switch"

  5. Throw as a verb (ceramics):

    To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.

  6. Throw as a verb (transitive, cricket):

    Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.

  7. Throw as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.

    Examples:

    "If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid operation exception."

  8. Throw as a verb (sports):

    To intentionally lose a game.

    Examples:

    "The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to throw the match."

  9. Throw as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To confuse or mislead.

    Examples:

    "The deliberate red herring threw me at first."

  10. Throw as a verb (figuratively):

    To send desperately.

    Examples:

    "Their sergeant threw the troops into pitched battle."

  11. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To imprison.

    Examples:

    "The magistrate ordered the suspect to be thrown into jail."

  12. Throw as a verb:

    To organize an event, especially a party.

  13. Throw as a verb:

    To roll (a die or dice).

  14. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.

  15. Throw as a verb (transitive, bridge):

    To discard.

  16. Throw as a verb (martial arts):

    To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position behind the thrower.

  17. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of one's voice):

    To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else.

  18. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To show sudden emotion, especially anger.

  19. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To project or send forth.

  20. Throw as a verb:

    To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

  21. Throw as a verb:

    To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) 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.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Tomlinson"

  22. Throw as a verb (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.):

    To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).

  23. Throw as a verb (transitive):

    To install a bridge.

  1. Throw as a noun:

    The flight of a thrown object

    Examples:

    "What a great throw by the quarterback!"

  2. Throw as a noun:

    The act of throwing something.

    Examples:

    "With an accurate throw, he lassoed the cow."

  3. Throw as a noun:

    One's ability to throw

    Examples:

    "He's got a girl's throw."

    "He's always had a pretty decent throw."

  4. Throw as a noun:

    A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.

  5. Throw as a noun:

    A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.

  6. Throw as a noun:

    A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.

    Examples:

    "Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a throw."

  1. Throw as a noun:

    Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  2. Throw as a noun (veterinary):

    The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.

  1. Throw as a verb (transitive, said of animals):

    To give birth to.

  1. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A moment, time, occasion.

  2. Throw as a noun (obsolete):

    A period of time; a while.

  1. Throw as a noun:

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