Cast

[kɑːst] or [kæst]

Definition

(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?'.

Typed by Geraldine--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Inputed by Bess

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Checked by Jeannette

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Mould, stamp, kind, figure, form, aspect, mien, air, style, manner, character

ANT:Malformation, deformity, abnormity

Checker: Seymour

Definition

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.

Checker: Williams