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The Meaning of cast
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(imp. & p. p.) of Cast
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(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
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(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
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(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
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(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
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(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
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(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
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(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
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(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
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(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
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(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
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(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
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(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
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(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
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(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
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(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
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(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
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(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
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(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
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(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
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(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
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(v. i.) To vomit.
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() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
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(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
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(n.) The thing thrown.
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(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
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(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
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(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.
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(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
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(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
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(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.
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(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
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(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
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(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
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(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
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(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
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(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
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(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
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(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
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(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
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(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
Synonyms
mold
,
mould
,
shape
,
hurl
,
dramatis personae
,
plaster bandage
,
roll
,
stamp
,
plaster cast
,
cast of characters
,
casting
,
form
,
mildew
,
modeling
,
moulding
,
molding
,
clay sculpture
,
seal
,
pestle
,
postage
,
legal tender
,
revenue stamp
,
tender
,
postage stamp
,
impression
,
course
,
figure
,
flesh
,
frame
,
kind
,
conformation
,
sort
,
chassis
,
condition
,
physical body
,
soma
,
human body
,
contour
,
grade
,
mannikin
,
mannequin
,
physique
,
phase
,
word form
,
configuration
,
class
,
variant
,
pattern
,
bod
,
signifier
,
embodiment
,
descriptor
,
manikin
,
variety
,
strain
,
anatomy
,
var.
,
material body
,
manakin
,
build
,
scroll
,
bankroll
,
axial rotation
,
curl
,
coil
,
axial motion
,
rolling wave
,
drum roll
,
peal
,
ringlet
,
roster
,
bowl
,
whorl
,
paradiddle
,
gyre
,
rolling
,
pealing
,
roller
,
curlicue
,
bun
,
roam
,
project
,
flip
,
spue
,
redact
,
fuddle
,
drift
,
visualise
,
draw
,
cast off
,
have
,
image
,
wander
,
protrude
,
rove
,
put
,
bedevil
,
jut
,
throw away
,
hold
,
confound
,
drop
,
vomit up
,
externalize
,
throw up
,
contrive
,
retch
,
purge
,
discombobulate
,
tramp
,
disgorge
,
cat
,
thrust
,
stray
,
stick out
,
propose
,
give
,
bewilder
,
shed
,
fox
,
fancy
,
shake off
,
make
,
devise
,
design
,
excogitate
,
see
,
range
,
vagabond
,
swan
,
visualize
,
picture
,
plan
,
chuck
,
formulate
,
ramble
,
forge
,
throw off
,
send off
,
throw
,
befuddle
,
regurgitate
,
vomit
,
jut out
,
externalise
,
hurtle
,
envision
,
spew
,
honk
,
regorge
,
invent
,
switch
,
upchuck
,
be sick
,
barf
,
confuse
,
sick
,
couch
,
bemuse
,
puke
,
lunge
,
hustle
,
wrap
,
verify
,
affirm
,
wave
,
array
,
assert
,
cheat on
,
float
,
twine
,
slog
,
turn over
,
avow
,
cheat
,
place
,
roll up
,
seethe
,
pasture
,
crop
,
browse
,
rate
,
betray
,
swear
,
plod
,
meander
,
flap
,
blow
,
lay out
,
pad
,
wheel
,
graze
,
weave
,
wind
,
rank
,
thread
,
pluck
,
freewheel
,
be adrift
,
cuckold
,
straddle
,
ramble on
,
revolve
,
order
,
roll out
,
set out
,
aver
,
run
,
jog
,
trudge
,
err
,
footslog
,
undulate
,
digress
,
divagate
,
influence
,
work
,
regulate
,
model
,
determine
,
overleap
,
strike down
,
put down
,
send away
,
fling
,
slough
,
deteriorate
,
pour forth
,
spend
,
omit
,
moult
,
dangle
,
chuck out
,
toss
,
expend
,
toss away
,
drip
,
cut down
,
dribble
,
overlook
,
devolve
,
leave out
,
miss
,
shake
,
exuviate
,
cast away
,
sink
,
pretermit
,
molt
,
unload
,
drop off
,
set down
,
fell
,
knock off
,
toss out
,
flatten
,
spill
,
neglect
,
cast aside
,
throw out
,
put away
,
escape from
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dismiss
,
dispose
,
cast out
,
drop down
,
discharge
,
send packing
,
swing
,
discard
,
degenerate
,
quarter
,
withdraw
,
tie
,
suck
,
absorb
,
pull
,
draw and quarter
,
reap
,
draw in
,
pull back
,
disembowel
,
take up
,
sop up
,
take out
,
eviscerate
,
delineate
,
pull in
,
pull out
,
get
,
describe
,
puff
,
soak up
,
drag
,
take in
,
attract
,
force
,
trace
,
imbibe
,
draw off
,
pass
,
line
,
suck up
,
string
,
guide
,
depict
,
get out
,
frame in
,
lay
,
draw up
,
set up
,
compose
,
commit
,
invest
,
entrap
,
assign
,
edit
,
arrange
,
border
,
position
,
ensnare
,
pose
,
frame up
,
set
,
eruct
,
gag
,
scour
,
ptyalise
,
claxon
,
ditch
,
cronk
,
spew out
,
toot
,
ptyalize
,
beep
,
spit
,
blare
,
purify
,
heave
,
sanctify
,
flush
,
reproduce
,
pat
,
calculate
,
account
,
consider
,
enumerate
,
count
,
estimate
,
reckon
,
compute
,
deem
,
number
,
sum up
Homophones
casqued
,
caste
,
kast
Rhymes
aghast
,
amassed
,
asked
,
assed
,
ast
,
bast
,
belfast
,
blast
,
broadcast
,
caste
,
chloroplast
,
classed
,
colorfast
,
contrast
,
downcast
,
enthusiast
,
fast
,
flabbergast
,
forecast
,
gassed
,
gast
,
ghast
,
harassed
,
hast
,
holdfast
,
iconoclast
,
kast
,
lambaste
,
last
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lightfast
,
lymphoblast
,
massed
,
mast
,
miscast
,
nast
,
newscast
,
outcast
,
outlast
,
overcast
,
passed
,
past
,
precast
,
prendergast
,
rast
,
rebroadcast
,
recast
,
sandblast
,
simulcast
,
steadfast
,
surpassed
,
telecast
,
typecast
,
unsurpassed
,
vast