cast

[[t]kæst, kɑst[/t]]

v. cast, cast•ing, n.

1) to throw or hurl; fling:

to cast dice; to cast aside the newspaper[/ex]

2) to direct (the eye, a glance, etc.)

3) to cause to fall; put or send forth:

to cast a soft light; to cast a spell; to cast doubts[/ex]

4) to draw (lots), as in telling fortunes

5) spo to throw out (a fishing line, a net, bait, etc.)

6) to shed or drop:

The snake cast its skin[/ex]

7) vet (of an animal) to bring forth (young), esp. abortively

8) to send off (a swarm), as bees do

9) to set aside; reject; dismiss:

She cast the problem from her mind[/ex]

10) to throw up (earth, sod, etc.), as with a shovel

11) to put or place, esp. forcibly:

to cast someone in prison[/ex]

12) to deposit or give (a ballot or vote)

13) to bestow; confer:

to cast blessings[/ex]

14) to form or arrange; plan out:

He cast his remarks to fit the occasion[/ex]

15) sbz

a) to select actors for (a play, motion picture, etc.)

b) to assign a role to (an actor)

16) to form (an object) by pouring metal, plaster, etc., into a mold and letting it harden

17) to form (metal, plaster, etc.) by this process

18) math. to compute, as a column of figures

19) astrol. to calculate (a horoscope)

20) to turn or twist; warp

21) naut. navig. to turn the head of (a ship), esp. away from the wind in getting under way

22) to throw

23) to receive form in a mold

24) math. to calculate or add

25) to conjecture; forecast

26) (of hounds) to search an area for scent

27) to warp, as timber

28) naut. navig. (of a ship) to turn, esp. to get the head away from the wind; tack

29) sbz to select the actors for a play, motion picture, or the like

30) sts Obs.

a) to consider

b) to plan or scheme

31) phv cast about or around

a) to search; seek

b) to devise a plan; scheme

32) phv cast down, to lower; humble

33) phv cast off

a) phv to discard; reject

b) phv to let go or let loose, as a ship from a mooring

c) pri to estimate the space a typeset manuscript will occupy

d) tex to complete a knitted fabric by looping over (the final stitches); bind off

34) tex phv cast on, (in knitting) to set (yarn) on a needle in order to form the initial stitches

35) phv cast out, to force to leave; expel; banish

36) the act of throwing

37) that which is thrown

38) the distance to which a thing may be thrown

39) gam

a) a throw of dice

b) the number rolled

40) spo the act of throwing a fishing line or net onto the water

41) sbz the group of performers in a play, motion picture, etc.; players

42) spo a searching of an area by hounds for a scent

43) a stroke of fortune; lot

44) the form in which something is made or written; arrangement

45) mel

a) the act of founding

b) the quantity of metal cast at one time

46) something made in a mold; casting

47) an impression or mold:

the cast of a fossil[/ex]

48) med a rigid surgical dressing, usu. made of bandage treated with plaster of Paris

49) outward form; appearance:

of a sinister cast[/ex]

50) sort; kind; style:

a hero of the cast of Don Quixote[/ex]

51) tendency; inclination:

minds of a philosophical cast[/ex]

52) a permanent twist or turn:

to have a cast in one's eye[/ex]

53) a warp

54) a slight tinge of some color; hue; shade:

a yellowish cast[/ex]

55) a dash or trace

56) math. a computation; calculation

57) a conjecture or forecast

58) vet something that is shed, ejected, or cast off or out, as molted skin, feathers, food from a bird's crop, or the coil of sand and waste passed by certain earthworms

59) orn

pellet 6)

60) pat effused plastic matter produced in the hollow parts of various diseased organs

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Etymology: 1175–1225; ME < ON kasta to throw