When you lightly throw something, you toss it. You might toss your lifejacket and backpack into a canoe before climbing in with the paddles.
The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
Adjective S.
thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship"
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Toss
n.
The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly;
a rolling and tumbling.
n.
A process which consists in washing ores by violent
agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy
particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
n.
A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air
while melted.
Tossing
The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
Usage Examples
'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.
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Other Usage ExamplesBaseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
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