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throw
Verb
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When you throw an object, you make it fly through the air using your hands.
Jim can throw a ball over his house.
Jill throws with her left hand.
She threw the potato peels in the trash can.
My resume was thrown in the waste basket.
Jill said she was throwing Jim's love letters away.
weight
Noun
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The weight of something is how heavy it is.
She's put on a lot of weight since she went to university.
I'm exercising to try to lose some weight.
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A weight is a heavy thing that you use to keep something down or that people lift to become stronger.
Can you put a weight on that paper so that it doesn't blow away?
weight
Verb
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When you weight something, you add weight to it.
To get your fishing line down to the bottom of the lake, you must weight it.
around
Preposition
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If mathx/math is around mathy/math, mathy/math is in the middle and mathx/math is on all sides of mathy/math.
The moon circles around the Earth.
The fence was built around the house.