Projectile and Throw

Projectile

Projectile noun - A weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled.

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Throw and projectile are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Throw" instead a noun "Projectile".

Nearby Word: projection

Throw noun - A risky undertaking.

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Projectile and throw are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Projectile" instead a noun "Throw".

Nearby Words: thrown, throwing, thrower

special	special projectile	special throw
regular	regular projectile	regular throw
standard	standard projectile	standard throw
single	single projectile	single throw
Other adjectives: simple, heavy, strong, powerful, charged, big, weak, quick, main, new, next, basic, last, giant, triple.

One of the special abilities martial artists can buy in Deadlands Classic, "Seize the Pearl o' Death", allows them to catch a thrown projectile and throw it back.

Source: Catch and Return
A bizarre device that Fred has been tinkering with is theorized by several other characters to be some kind of projectile launcher (it actually does throw axes) or maybe it just makes toast.

Source: Projectile Toast
And that's without even getting into her projectile attack, which allows her to throw different objects depending on how long you charge the attack.

Source: Improbable Weapon User / Video Games

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