cast
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp. The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.
Definitions
To move, or be moved, away.
- Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…].
- The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…].
To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
- She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement[…].
- But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.)
To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
- To what this ten years' tribute will amount, That we have cast, but cannot compass it By reason of the wars, that robb'd our store
- The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.
- I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.
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To predict, to decide, to plan.
- he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
- John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.
- He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.
- While I could tell my little witch was growing stronger with each piece of loot, I got tired of casting fireball after fireball and looting gear with three more health.
To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
- A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
- The Poet and the Painter Casting shadows on the water As the sun plays on the infantry Returning from the sea.
To give birth to (a child) prematurely
To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
- being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [translating avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.
- The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould
To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.
To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- Stuff is said to cast or warp when[…]it alters its flatness or straightness.
To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed…
To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
To deposit (a ballot or voting paper)
To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- Time to tell all the ballots cast by voters in the box.
To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type.
Of dogs, hunters
Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.
To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.
An act of throwing.
The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- a cast of scatter'd dust
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with…
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- He’s in the cast of Oliver.
- The cast was praised for a fine performance.
The casting procedure.
- The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
An object made in a mould.
- The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
The mould used to make cast objects.
- A plaster cast was made from his face.
The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time
The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]
- Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […].
A squint.
Visual appearance.
- Her features had a delicate cast to them.
- Using a tungsten-balanced film outdoors results in a blue cast to the photo.
- He stared down at his champagne glass with narrowed eyes and a hard cast to his mouth.
The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.
- I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
Obsolete form of caste (“hereditary social class of South Asia”).
- The brahmin's cast is higher than any other cast.
Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
A group of crabs.
The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to…
The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
A chance or attempt at something.
Assistance given by transporting a person or lightening their labour.
- The superiors rode în a spring-van, and the rest in the wagon, while I walked the whole distance. None of them had the civility to give me a cast forward on either vehicle, […]
- boatman, just give us a cast over to the other side of the water.
Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep
Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
A surname.
Initialism of Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking.
The neighborhood
Derived
aftercast, colorcast, fan cast, forecast, miscast, offcast, precast, recast, sidecast, surfcast, undercast, audiocast, beachcast, becast, bicast, broadcast, castability, castable, cast about, cast accounts, cast a chill, cast adrift, cast anchor, cast a pall, cast around, cast a shadow, cast aside, cast aspersions, cast away, cast back, cast caution to the wind, cast dispersions, cast down, caster, cast in concrete, casting, casting call, casting couch, casting director, cast in one's lot with · +95 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at cast
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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