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# toss

verb, noun (toss, tosses, tossed, tossing)

«toss» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To toss means to throw something lightly: toss the ball to me. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#m1)
2. A coin toss is throwing a coin to see which side lands up, heads or tails. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#m2)
3. To toss a salad is to mix it gently. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#m3)
4. To toss and turn is to move about in bed and not sleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#m4)
5. To toss something out is to throw it away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#m5)

### In the lessons

Maths: throws counted; coin tosses with chances: a coin has 2 sides, so heads and tails are equally likely; tails = tosses − heads. Sport: the toss decides who starts a game. Everyday: toss a pancake, toss the salad, «it's a toss-up» (either could happen).

### Examples

- She tossed the ball 12 times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x1)
- He tosses a coin 10 times and gets 6 heads. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x2)
- They tossed 3 bags into the bin. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x3)
- How many tosses were tails? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x4)
- The captain won the toss and chose to bat first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x5)
- Dad tossed the pancake high in the air. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x6)
- I tossed and turned all night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x7)
- Toss the salad with a little oil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x8)
- He tossed it gayly to the boy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/#x9)

### Note

Regular: tossed; plural tosses. Counts throws. Trap: if heads and tails are both counted, tails = tosses − heads. Trap: past coin tosses do not change the next one; each toss is still a 1 in 2 chance.

## In Jewish tradition

Used for waters heaving, a storm-beaten city, and a person hurled away like a ball as a punishment.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah's "tossed with tempest" is read as a comfort to Jerusalem: after her suffering, God will rebuild her with precious stones.

### Examples

- Who is this like the Nile that riseth up, like the rivers whose waters toss themselves? (Prophets JER.46.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/toss/#x1)
- O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. (Prophets ISA.54.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/toss/#x2)
- He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the lord's house. (Prophets ISA.22.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/toss/#x3)

### Note

Regular: tossed; plural tosses. Counts throws. Trap: if heads and tails are both counted, tails = tosses − heads. Trap: past coin tosses do not change the next one; each toss is still a 1 in 2 chance.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «toss» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toss/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«toss» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/toss.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «toss» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/toss/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«toss» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/toss.html) on Mova free.