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🤢 To vomit 💻 To display
to throw up

to throw up

12 3.7
To make a message or window appear on the screen
  • phrasal verb
  • /θroʊ ʌp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mostrar (en pantalla)
  • Well, here's I'm just going to throw up three different options and I'll very quickly dismiss two of them.
  • throw up a screen
  • throw up roadblocks
  • throw up your hands

It's what Bloomberg has thrown up on a chart.

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Examples

  • We were coming up on the cordon of weaponry and troop carriers the army had thrown up around the site.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • But if we go ahead and throw up on screen now this, this is the last earnings report for Tesla.

  • Let me, let me throw up a, a picture, you know, and, and show some love, right.

  • If anyone has the resources to throw up a wiki somewhere, we can start creating a list.

    Blog text (6)

  • They'll throw up a roadblock... and leave one man behind to blow it when somebody moves it.

    Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

  • Exposing the linkages between past events and the evidence available to us is bound to throw up some anomalies.

    Academic text (2010)

  • "Did the DNA tests throw up any evidence that they were transgenics?" Headley shook his head.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • So I prepared my income and expenses and I can throw up a screenshot of the spreadsheet and Graham is going to look at all my stuff.

  • The presentation was successful because we were able to throw up the updates on the screen in real-time.

  • During the meeting, the IT team will throw up a demo of the new software for everyone to see.

Synonyms

to pop up
vsto throw up
144 3.5

Appear suddenly and briefly when you are not expecting it

is used for deliberate software displays that intentionally show interface elements on screen
to pop out
vsto throw up
20 2.9

To appear suddenly without warning

is used for intentional software displays that make interface elements visible

Antonyms

to hide
∞ 1.0

To keep something so others cannot see or understand it

How Prominent

to pop up
144 3.5
to throw up
  • Specialized
12 3.7
to show
∞ 1.0
to render
52 6.3

Surface Forms

throw up infinitive
throwing up present participle
throws up third person singular
threw up past
thrown up past participle

Morphology

throw + up

The computing sense 'to display or generate on a screen' is a metaphorical extension of 'throw' (propel) + 'up' (to a higher position), so there is some compositional link (cause something to appear/be brought up). However this is a specialized, technical usage and not an immediately obvious meaning for a B1 learner (who may instead think of the common bodily meaning 'vomit'), so the relation is only partially predictable.

Etymology

Throw up used for computers may come from the image of something being thrown so it appears on the screen: a program 'throws' a message 'up' and a box or window appears where you can see it. So the phrase means 'to display' a message on the screen.