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Tossing vs Hurling - What's the difference?

tossing | hurling |

As verbs the difference between tossing and hurling

is that tossing is while hurling is .

As nouns the difference between tossing and hurling

is that tossing is the motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling while hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

As an adjective tossing

is (vulgar|colloquial) used to disparage or curse someone or something.

tossing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
  • * Herman Melville
    • Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft.
  • (mining) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
    • (Pryce)
  • A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (vulgar, colloquial) Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
    • I can't get this tossing program to work.

    hurling

    English

    Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

    • Verb

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