Cast

Definition: Cast

Cast

Adjective

1. (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold.

Noun

1. The actors in a play.

2. Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens.

3. The distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region".

4. The visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features".

5. Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal.

6. Object formed by a mold.

7. The act of throwing dice.

8. The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel.

9. A violent throw.

Verb

1. Put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light".

2. Deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot".

3. 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".

4. Throw forcefully.

5. Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?".

6. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next".

7. Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture".

8. Get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss".

9. Choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots".

10. : formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language".

11. : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

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Medicine

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CAST

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cast

Affections

Adjective: affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias; Noun: tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with.

Apportionment

Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.

Condemnation

Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.

Copy

Duplicate, reproduction; cast, tracing; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo.

Depression

Verb: depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate.

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature.

Giving

Concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend.

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.

Regression

Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

Rejection

Verb: reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline; (refuse); exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast.

Sculpture

Verb: sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast.

Statue.; (image); cast; (copy); glyptotheca.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Tendency

Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality).

Crosswords: Cast

Manx (complex, contorted, curly, curved, intricate, many-sided, perverted, spun, ticklish, warped, wry), Romanian (chaste, pure, virgin, virtuous), Welsh (cast, knack, vice).

It must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Him and half the cast of Fantasia (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price)

They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian)

God help the out cast or nobody will (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

Like the cast of a Fellini movie (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Wish cast into the sky, (Swing Swing; performing artist: ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS)

The line, it is drawn, the curse, it is cast ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Lying under this spell you cast on me (Crush; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

With the jester on the sidelines in a cast ("American Pie"; performing artist: Don McLean)

From within, the dim light cast two silhouettes on the shade (Silhouettes; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. (references; author: Malabar Proverb)

To light a candle is to cast a shadow. (references; author: unknown)

The ladies of the Church have cast off old clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon. (references; author: unknown)

Original Cast Album-Company (1970)

Cast a Dark Shadow (1957)

Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (1953)

All-Star Cast (1924)

Cast Adrift (1917)

CAST YOUR FATE TO THE WIND  (performing artist: Sounds Orchestral )

Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Instrumental) (performing artist: Vince Guaraldi Trio)

Same Script, Different Cast (performing artist: Whitney Houston)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Cast SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Korea Cast Iron Pipe Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Pig Iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks in Latin America (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Pig iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Pig iron, Cast Iron and Spiegeleisen in Pigs and Blocks Export Supplies (reference)

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Books

• Griswold Cast Iron Vol. #2 (reference)

• Troubleshooting the Cast (reference)

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Periodicals

• Cast On (reference)

• Die Cast Digest (reference)

• International Journal Of Cast Metals Research (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert (reference)

• Cast a Dark Shadow (reference)

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Music

• Into The Woods: A New Musical - Original Cast Recording (1987 Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• La Bohème: The Dream Cast (reference)

• Passion (1994 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Harlem Song (2002 Original Off-Broadway Cast) (reference)

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High Tech

• Fetco International Mosaic Shards with Cast Iron Border 4 X 6 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisinart DCO-24 Die Cast Can Opener (reference)

• Nordic Ware Cast Aluminum 12-Inch Bundt Pan (reference)

• JET 708300K / JWTS-10CW2-JF 10" Table Saw with 2 Cast Iron Wings and JETFence (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Getting upright cast as sounding stand passes position of lead Off of ISIS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Deploying Nansen cast from PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Reading the reversing thermometers after a Nansen cast Used to compute velocity of sound in seawater. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Lieutenant Commander Harley Nygren on the "hero platform." Taking a Nansen cast to determine water temperatures and density. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

When a boat is too confining, fishermen step out on a shoal and cast for redfish in Laguna Madre. Credit: Fisheries.

Callinectes sapidus. 1. The cast shell of a half-grown male. 2. The ventral surface of a half-grown male. In: "Life History of the Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus" by W. P. Hay. Report of the Bureau of Fisheries 1904. P. 413, Plate I (upper half). Credit: Fisheries.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Hooded Nudibranch, Melibe leonina, is also called the Lion Nudibranch. This mollusk is almost transparent with a slight yellowish-green cast. Unlike other nudibranchs, Melibe have no radula and M. Leonina has no jaws. It uses its oral hood, lined with 2 rows of tentacles to capture prey. Found in offshore kelpbeds and eelgrass meadows. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

A native fisherman preparing to cast a net. Credit: Small World.

Everyone has a great time at Catch A Special Thrill (CAST), a day of fishing at Lake Pleasant for disabled children. Credit: Chris Tincher.

Expanse of rush Skeletonweed (green cast) near the Payette River. Outside of Boise, ID. Credit: Jerry Asher.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Ammonites making war upon Israel, the Gileadites in fear send to lephtha, a bastard of their family whom they had cast off, and article with him, if he will assist them against the Ammonites, to make him their ruler; which they do in these words, And the people made him head and captain over them, Judg. (Second Treatise of Government)

In requiring the proletariat to carry out such a system, and thereby to march straightway into the social New Jerusalem, it but requires in reality, that the proletariat should remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoisie. (reference)

The result will be determined by the majority of votes cast in the whole of this section. (reference)

It would be criminal madness to cast it adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

This discussion and our own investigation convince us that, although these sources cast some light, it is not enough to resolve the problem with which we are faced. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives

The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes

But he clasped both his hands over his breast, and cast his eyes towards the zenith

The officer took the paper, cast his eye upon it, and obeyed

He had been cast for it on account of his stature and grave manners for he was now at the end of his second year at Belvedere and in number two.

Slave, I have set my life upon a cast And I Will stand the hazard of the die.

Ahead of him, beside the road, a scrawny, dusty willow tree cast a speckled shade

We cast anchor within a league of the town, and made a signal for a pilot

Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existance for him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When active, the virus usually causes visible sores in the genital area. The sores cast off (shed) viruses that can infect another person. (references)

The pain of these headaches is often described as a tight band around the head or a feeling that the head and neck are in a cast. "It feels like somebody is tightening a giant vise around my head," says one patient. (references)

Business

Aluminum and magnesium usage will increase in automotive applications as steel and cast iron usage in that sector declines. (references)

General workpiece material trends show that alloy steels and cast irons will be the primary materials machined, at least for the next few years. (references)

Because the prices for construction machinery are usually not affordable for the cast majority of end users, renting or leasing companies are often the actual buyers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Fiji

The annual general meeting of the Methodist Church in Suva in August coincided with the national elections; some 25,000 Methodists cast absentee ballots. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

The voters then cast their ballots for one party. (references)

Gabon

The president was re-elected in a disputed election in 1993 with 51% of votes cast. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

There is a common belief in the region that some persons have the power to cast spells on others; this fear sometimes rises to mass hysteria. (references)

Malaysia

In recent years, a number of high-profile cases cast doubts on judicial impartiality and independence, and raised questions of arbitrary verdicts, selective prosecution, and preferential treatment of some litigants and lawyers. (references)

Minorities

Hungary

Local minority self-government elections, in conjunction with local government elections, have been held since 1994. Any of the 13 minorities can set up a minority self-government if at least 50 valid votes are cast in settlements with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants and if at least 100 votes are cast in larger settlements. (references)

Political Economy

Gambia

Jammeh won a simple majority of 53 percent of the total votes cast. (references)

Uruguay

To win, a presidential candidate must obtain a minimum of 51 percent of the votes cast. (references)

Costa Rica

Miguel Angel Rodriguez of the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) won the presidency in the 1998 elections, in which approximately 70 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

Approximately 70 percent of registered voters cast ballots. (references)

Gabon

Official results showed Bongo winning approximately two-thirds of the votes cast. (references)

Macedonia

Trajkovski again gained the majority of votes cast, and the SDSM filed a list of complaints of irregularities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Cast under

To cast

Expressions using "cast": A cast of the eye ♦ alloy cast iron ♦ at a stone's cast ♦ be cast ♦ be cast away ♦ be cast down ♦ be cast in costs ♦ cast a ballot ♦ cast a chill over ♦ cast a chill upon ♦ cast a cloud on smth. ♦ cast a damp over ♦ cast a damp over smth. ♦ cast a damper on smb. ♦ cast a fishing line ♦ cast a fly ♦ cast a glamour over ♦ cast a glance ♦ cast a gloom over ♦ cast a gloom over smb. ♦ cast a horoscope ♦ cast a nativity ♦ cast a net ♦ cast a shadow ♦ cast a shadow over ♦ cast a sheep's eye ♦ cast a shoe ♦ cast a slur ♦ cast a slur on ♦ cast a slur upon ♦ cast a spell ♦ cast a spell on ♦ cast a spell over ♦ cast a spell upon ♦ cast a suspicion on ♦ cast a transient glance at ♦ cast a transient look at ♦ cast a vote ♦ cast about ♦ cast about for ♦ cast about to ♦ cast accounts ♦ cast an eye ♦ cast anchor ♦ cast around ♦ cast around for ♦ cast aside ♦ cast aspersion ♦ cast aspersions ♦ cast aspersions on ♦ cast aspersions upon smb. ♦ cast away ♦ cast away care ♦ cast back ♦ cast back one's mind ♦ cast back one's mind to smth. ♦ cast behind ♦ cast behind one ♦ cast dice ♦ cast dirt at smb. ♦ cast doubt upon ♦ cast doubts on smth. ♦ cast down ♦ cast down one's eyes ♦ cast in ♦ cast in one piece ♦ cast in one's lot with ♦ cast in the eye ♦ cast in the same mold ♦ cast in vertical clamped moulds ♦ cast into prison ♦ cast into the shade ♦ cast iron ♦ cast its young ♦ cast loose ♦ cast lots ♦ cast net ♦ cast of characters ♦ cast of clothes ♦ cast of features ♦ cast of mind ♦ cast off ♦ cast off the old adam ♦ cast off the yoke ♦ cast off trammels ♦ cast offs ♦ cast on ♦ cast on strap ♦ cast one's net ♦ cast one's vote ♦ cast or calculate ♦ cast or heave ♦ cast out ♦ cast pearls before swine ♦ cast pearls before swines ♦ cast reflection on ♦ cast reflection on smb. ♦ cast scrap ♦ cast sheep's eyes at smb. ♦ cast sheep's eyes upon ♦ cast smb.'s horoscope. Additional references.

Beginning with "cast": cast-aluminium, cast-iron, cast-iron plant, cast-list, cast-litter, cast-maker, cast-metal, cast-off, cast-offs, cast-on.

Ending with "cast": open-cast, re-cast.

Containing "cast": open-cast mining, soft-cast steel.