Cast
[kɑːst] or [kæst]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of throwing dice.
(noun.) object formed by a mold.
(noun.) bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal.
(noun.) the actors in a play.
(noun.) the distinctive form in which a thing is made; 'pottery of this cast was found throughout the region'.
(verb.) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; 'cast a bronze sculpture'.
(verb.) select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet; 'He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona'.
(verb.) deposit; 'cast a vote'; 'cast a ballot'.
(verb.) assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; 'Who cast this beautiful movie?'.
杰拉尔丁校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp. & p. p.) of Cast
(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
(v. i.) To vomit.
(-) 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
(n.) The thing thrown.
(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
(n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
贝丝錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Throw, fling, hurl, send, toss, pitch, sling, SHY.[2]. Drive, impel, force, thrust.[3]. Shed, put off, lay aside.[4]. Compute, reckon, calculate.[5]. Found, form in a mould.[6]. Assign, allot, appoint, apportion, appropriate.[7]. Direct, turn.
v. n. Contrive, CAST ABOUT.
n. [1]. Throw, fling, toss.[2]. Tinge, tint, shade, touch.[3]. Manner, style, air, mien, look, turn, tone, character.[4]. Mould, form.[5]. Assignment of parts.
珍妮特錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style, manner, character
ANT:Malformation, deformity, abnormity
手打:西摩
解釋/意思:
v.t. to throw or fling: to throw off shed drop: to throw down: to throw together or reckon: to mould or shape: (B.) to consider to cast or throw up.—v.i. to warp:—pa.t. and pa.p. cast.—n. act of casting: a throw of anything as the sounding-lead a fishing-line: the thing thrown esp. in angling: the distance thrown: a motion turn or squint as of the eye: a chance: a mould: the form received from a mould: manner stamp or quality: a shade of colour a degree of guilt &c.: the assignment of the various parts of a play to the several actors: the company of actors to whom such have been assigned.—n. Cast′away one cast away an outcast.—adj. worthless rejected.—adjs. Cast (B.) Cast′ed (Shak.) cast off.—ns. Cast′ing act of casting or moulding: that which is cast: a mould; Cast′ing-net a species of net for fishing; Cast′ing-vote the voice or vote of the president of a meeting by which he is enabled when the other votes are equally divided to cast the balance on the one side or the other; Cast′ing-weight the weight which makes the balance cast or turn when exactly poised.—adj. Cast′-off laid aside or rejected.—n. anything thrown aside.—n. Cast′-steel steel that has been melted cast into ingots and rolled out into bars.—Cast about to contrive to look about to search for as game: (B.) to turn to go round; Cast a nativity to make an astrological calculation; Cast anchor to moor a ship; Cast an eye a glance to look at; Cast a thing in one's teeth to bring a reproach against some one; Cast away to wreck to waste; Cast down to deject or depress in mind: to turn the eyes downward; Cast loose to set loose or adrift; Cast up to throw up to bring up anything as a reproach.—Be cast (law) to be defeated.—The last cast the last venture.
錄入:威廉姆斯
例句/造句/用法:
- The first cast-iron lighthouse was put up at Point Morant, Jamaica, in 1842. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Consols; for so it was that Becky felt the Vanity of human affairs, and it was in those securities that she would have liked to cast anchor. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He slipped off his worn down-trodden shoes, and cast himself heavily, all wet as he was, upon the bed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Slowly, at last, he moved his eyes from my face, as if he were waking from a vision, and cast them round the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- William's sally had quite broken and cast her down. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The die was cast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Legree had been casting up accounts and reading newspapers for some hours, while Cassy sat in the corner; sullenly looking into the fire. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Wine and wassail, he added, gravely casting up his eyes--all the fault of wine and wassail! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Who do you give your casting vote to? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Arternoon, you mean,' replied the groom, casting a surly look at Sam. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The title gave him a sudden start, too; and he could not avoid casting a wistful glance round the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- While a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for casting a vote at a Presidential election occurred. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The metal casting of each page is very thin, and when required to be used, it is screwed on to blocks of wood to the same height as ordinary types. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I am glad of it,' said Mr. Pickwick, casting his nightcap energetically on the counterpane. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Weight of casting, 252,000 pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He loves a dodge for its own sake; being,' added Mr Fledgeby, after casting about for an expressive phrase, 'the dodgerest of all the dodgers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Little Eyes casts about how best to pay you off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Carez, a printer of Toul, who, in 1791, endeavoured to obtain casts in lead from a page of type, by allowing it to drop on the fused metal when it was in a state of setting. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- For this purpose, casts were made of plaster of Paris, which were covered with black lead, to give them the property of conducting electricity, and the metal was then deposited upon them. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Six plaster casts of Napoleon were drying in the passage. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The will seems to move easily every way, and casts a shadow or image of itself, even to that side, on which it did not settle. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He shook the box, and threw eight, ten, and nine; the three casts amounted to twenty-seven. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Mr. Snagsby casts his eye forlornly round the bar, gives Messrs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The Mergenthaler Linotype machine sets and casts type in the form of solid lines. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Heated casts of previously carved models were pressed into or on to wet wood, and the charcoal surfaces then brushed off with hard brushes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
校對:桑福德