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Throwable vs Trowable - What's the difference?

throwable | trowable |

As adjectives the difference between throwable and trowable

is that throwable is that can be thrown in the manner of an exception while trowable is credible; believable.

As a noun throwable

is a throwable object.

throwable

English

Adjective

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  • (computing, programming) That can be thrown in the manner of an exception.
  • * 1997 , Babak Sadr, Grady Booch, Unified objects: object-oriented programming using C++
    • For an object to be throwable , it must be directly or indirectly derived from the Throwable class.
  • * 2001 , Alan Burns, Andrew J Wellings, Real-time systems and programming languages
    • In general, each function may specify a list of throwable objects...
  • * 2006 , William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC
    • ...if you need to make certain symbols visible externally for debugging purposes or for catching exceptions for throwable entities within a library.
  • That can be thrown (in any other context)

    • Derived terms

    * throwability

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A throwable object
    • Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables .

    trowable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) Credible; believable.
  • (rare) Fit to be or worthy of being betrothed; betrothable.
  • *2009 , Steven S. Schneiderman, Marshlanders :
    • “Oh yeah; but you girls have so many hopefuls hanging around; hard for me to keep score. Why don't you ask your dad?” “No dad: no mom; but you've been married forever. How come you never got trown?” “I just never did anything trowable . I've been accused of everything though; one time or another.”