meaning of cast
1. of Cast
2. Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.
3. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
4. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
5. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
6. To throw down, as in wrestling.
7. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
8. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
9. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
10. To throw out or emit; to exhale.
11. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
12. To impose; to bestow; to rest.
13. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
14. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
15. To contrive; to plan.
16. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
17. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
18. 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.
19. To stereotype or electrotype.
20. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
21. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
22. To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
23. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
24. To calculate; to compute.
25. To receive form or shape in a mold.
26. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
27. To vomit.
28. 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
29. The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
30. The thing thrown.
31. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
32. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
33. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawks stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
34. The act of casting in a mold.
35. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
36. 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.
37. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
38. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
39. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
40. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
41. A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
42. A stoke, touch, or trick.
43. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
44. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
45. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
46. Contrivance; plot, design.
47. See Cast steel, under Steel.
48. CAST Computer Aided Software Testing cast explicit type conversion casters-up mode [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system hardware or software which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off as long as youre not responsible for fixing it. [Jargon File] casting the runes
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