throwable

Capable of being thrown.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being thrown.

    Antonyms: unthrowable

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

Origin

Etymology tree English throw Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English throwable From throw + -able.

Forms

more throwable most throwable

Derived

throwability unthrowable

Noun

  1. Something that is throwable.
    • Speaking of cycling, most things are recycled: There are bins for paper and bins for cans. Most plastic throwables are simply not allowed (though organizers haven’t quite found a substitute for forks, spoons and...
    • Transforming objects’ states identically by manipulating them in the same way affords infants a way to begin constructing functional equivalence classes even when the objects do not belong to the same predicate class...
    • Aside from chucking things, you can also dash – useful for stealing throwables right out of the opposition’s meaty hands or even catching objects mid-air as they sail right at you. - 2013 January, Toby McCasker, “When...
  2. Any object that can be thrown in the manner of an exception.
    • Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.

Forms

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