throw-off

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A start in a hunt or a race.

   “We had not covered much more than three miles since the throw-off; but horses and hounds already exhibited a most interesting and picturesque tail.”

2. isim A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.

   “Since the spring of 1863 there has never been a throw-off race, nor shall there ever be a race on the track for hippodroming; all must be on the square, as the club started it for their own fun and to work their horses on.”

3. isim A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.

   “A throw-off switch which would have derailed the cars if left undistubed was closed so as to lead the cars on the side track down a moderate grade, until it joined the main track.”

4. isim A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.

   “When a player of the side having the throw-off at the center, crosses the halfway line ahead of the ball, he is "off-side" and the ball shall be called back for a second throw from a new line five yards back of the halfway line.”

5. isim Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).

   “In the case of the single investment, both the tax payments and the quasi-rent throw-off would be only for the single investment being evaluated.”

6. isim A discount on a debt or invoice due to a problem with the asset being paid for.

   “Then there is, I think, $25,000 extra allowed in the appropriation to pay for extra service at the rate of 4 cents per mile, where the amount of service is very great and the number of throw-offs very great.”

7. isim The act of flinging or throwing something off.

   “Too much belt dressing gradually builds up lumps on belt and pulley surfaces, causes belt throw-offs, and may break belt lacing.”

8. isim Something that is flung or thrown off.

   “Many stellar mappers consider the planet to be one of a chain of widely spaced bridge stars linking the spiral arms of our galaxy with the Magellanic Clouds, which are throw-offs from our main system.”

9. isim The deflection of a projectile at an angle.

   “You have to judge the angle of the throw-off and the impact point.”

10. isim Something that has been discarded; a castoff.

    “I say the younger Senators who got the throw-offs of everybody else.”

11. isim A red herring; something intended to throw people off.

    “To protect against sign stealing, I employ a lot of what we call 'throw-offs', gestures after I have already given the sign which mean nothing but may fool the foe into thinking that one of them is a sign.”

12. isim Something that is done, made, or said informally, on the side, or off-the-cuff.

    “The third line should be a throw-off, e.g.: 'Hello.' 'Hello.' 'Groovy.' 'Yeah.' 'The lighting, I mean.' 'Oh, I thought you meant the music,'”

13. isim A byproduct, spinoff, or incidental creation.

    “In terms of the way this question is worded, in responding to it I would have to say that nothing but the most liberal approach should be followed in order to advance this industry and its throw-offs to the United States and world economies.”