Throwaway

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  throwaway \throw"a*way\ a.
     1. designed to be discarded after a single use; disposable.
        [PJC]
  
     2. spoken with deliberate underemphasis; as, a throwaway line
        in a play.


        [PJC]
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  throwaway \throw"a*way\ n.
     1. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a
        leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
  
     Syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier,
          flyer
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. words spoken in a casual way with conscious underemphasis.
        [WordNet 1.5]
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  throwaway
       adj 1: thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes";
              "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged
              some thrown-away furniture" [syn: {cast-off(a)}, {discarded},
               {throwaway(a)}, {thrown-away(a)}]
       2: intended to be thrown away after use; "throwaway diapers"
          [syn: {throwaway(p)}]
       n 1: a homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the
            streets [syn: {street arab}, {gamin}]
       2: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet)
          intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to
          all subscribers" [syn: {circular}, {handbill}, {bill}, {broadside},
           {broadsheet}, {flier}, {flyer}]
       3: words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "throwaway":
     castaway, castoff, consumable, deep six, discard, discarding,
     disposable, disposal, dumping, elimination, expendable, jettison,
     junking, no-deposit, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, rejection,
     removal, replaceable, scrapping, spendable