throwable
nounEtymology From throw + -able.
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Something that is throwable.
- Speaking of cycling, most things are recycled: There are bins for paper and bins for cans. Most plastic throwables are simply not allowed (though organizers haven’t quite found a substitute for forks, spoons and knives).1997, Carol des Lauriers Cieri, Donna Gold, “Fairs”, in The Insiders’ Guide to Maine’s Mid-Coast, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Daily News Enterprises; Manteo, N.C.: Insiders’ Publishing, →ISBN, page 211:
- Transforming objects’ states identically by manipulating them in the same way affords infants a way to begin constructing functional equivalence classes even when the objects do not belong to the same predicate class (Piaget, 1952a). For example, simultaneously throwing a doll and a cup transforms both into functionally equivalent ‘throwables.’2003, Jonas Langer, Susan Rivera, Matthew Schlesinger, Ann Wakeley, “Early Cognitive Development: Ontogeny and Phylogeny”, in Jaan Valsiner, Kevin J[oseph] Connolly, editors, Handbook of Developmental Psychology, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, published 2005, →ISBN, part 2 (Prenatal and Infant Development), page 146:
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- Aside from chucking things, you can also dash – useful for stealing throwables right out of the opposition’s meaty hands or even catching objects mid-air as they sail right at you.2013 January, Toby McCasker, “When Vikings Attack!”, in Adam Mathew, editor, PlayStation Official Magazine – Australia, number 77, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Any object that can be thrown in the manner of an exception.
- Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.