throw-off

A start in a hunt or a race.

We had not covered much more than three miles since the throw-off; but horses and hounds already exhibited a most interesting and picturesque tail.

The sixty horsemen spread away for the start, the two pretty Amazons set their lips, a mob of peasants in blue blouses form a noisy fringing to the phaetons and barouches which have come to see the throw-off, and conspicuous amidst all this we have M. Pistache's roan, which, unable to stand the music of the horns, first jumps, then pivots on its hind legs, then springs off like a shot, well-nigh wrenching M. Pistache's arms out of their sockets.

A race in which a contestant is paid to deliberately lose.

Since the spring of 1863 there has never been a throw-off race, nor shall there ever be a race on the track for hippodroming; all must be on the square, as the club started it for their own fun and to work their horses on.

By many it was thought to be a "throw off" race, and that Selaya did not do his best – I was inclined also to the opinion, although I may have been wrong

A control that engages or disengages part of the mechanism on a device without having to turn the device off.

I have seen a corporation erect a $60,000 building, including $500 expende in decorating the business office, and still do its job printing on ancient Degeners, unprovided with throw-offs or ink fountains, while the business manager was perplexed to see his competitors, provided with modern machinery, take long runs of presswork at prices he could not touch except at a considerable loss.

In air-brake mechanism, the combination, with the air-pump of a connecting-arm adapted to engage the piston-rod of said pump, a shifting frame for operating said connecting-arm, a throw-off bar for throwing said connecting arm out of engagement with said piston-rod, a pivot-rod and pivot-pin for sustaining said throw-off bar, a top plate for sustaining said throw-off bar, suitable springs for giving to said throw-off bar an elastic support, and suitable means for operating said throw-off bar, substantially as described.

A throw taken to resume play, such as after a goal or at the start of a period.

When a player of the side having the throw-off at the center, crosses the halfway line ahead of the ball, he is "off-side" and the ball shall be called back for a second throw from a new line five yards back of the halfway line.

The teams shall alternate throw-offs at the beginning of each period.

Income minus expenses and depreciation (before tax).

In the case of the single investment, both the tax payments and the quasi-rent throw-off would be only for the single investment being evaluated.

If the expanded fund throw-offs "reflect success" of a company in terms of "profits," they should be shipped back to the Internal Revenue Service, to the company's employees, and to the company's supply vendors to whom they belong, from whom they have been borrowed by the company, and whose claims on the apparent company resource accrual accounting, as contrasted with "cash" accounting, attempts to faithfully recount.