Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 抛

to throw
to toss
to fling
to cast
to abandon

to throw out
to get rid of

to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)

to abandon
to discard
to renounce
to dump (sb)

to discard

to throw; to toss

to sprinkle

to drop anchor
(fig.) (of a car etc) to break down

to short-sell (finance)

cover (i.e. insurance against loss in financial deals)

to desert
to leave
to forsake

to scatter; to disperse

to drip
to flow out
to sprinkle

to throw
to shoot

to lose face
humiliation

to toss
to throw out

projectile

to get the ball rolling (abbr. for 拋磚引玉／抛砖引玉 (pāozhuānyǐnyù))

to throw down
to dump
to abandon
thrown down

to lie idle (of arable land)
fig. rusty because of lack of practice

to polish; to burnish

to waste
to squander

parabola

projectile

(geometry) paraboloid

to drop anchor

to entice an inexperienced man

projectile

to throw amorous or flirtatious glances at sb (esp. of a woman)

throwing the embroidered ball (traditional Zhuang flirting game at festivals)
(fig.) to make overtures
to court

pāozhuānyǐnyù

lit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom)
fig. to attract others' interest or suggestions by putting forward one's own modest ideas to get the ball rolling

covered arbitrage

pāotóulùmiàn

to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)

shuāngqūpāowùmiàn

双曲抛物面

[雙曲拋物面]

(geometry) hyperbolic paraboloid