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Cast

Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction
Individuals who do not accept the norms are cast out from the group
He cast the book down on to the chair angrily
The fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna
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(medicine) Set in a cast.
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Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface
The moon cast a pale light over the cottages
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Casted

Having membership in a caste.
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Discard
He jumped in, casting caution to the wind
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Casted

(nonstandard) cast
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Shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mould while molten
When hammered or cast, bronze could be made into tools
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Register (a vote)
Votes have been cast in 40 per cent of the seats
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Cause (a magic spell) to take effect
The city casts a spell on the visitor
The witch cast a spell on her to turn her into a beast
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Calculate and record details of (a horoscope)
You can look at the star chart cast at somebody's birth
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Cast

(in country dancing) change one's position by moving a certain number of places in a certain direction along the outside of the line in which one is dancing
Cross the set and cast down one place
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(of a dog) search in different directions for a lost scent
The dog cast furiously for the vanished rabbit
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Immobilize (an animal, especially a cow) by using a rope to cause it to fall on its side.
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Assign a part in a play or film to (an actor)
He was cast as a young knight in her lavish historical epic
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Cast

An object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mould
Bronze casts of the sculpture
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An act of throwing something forcefully
He grabbed a spear for a third cast
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Cast

The form or appearance of something, especially someone's features or complexion
She had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance
The colours he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin
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A slight squint
He had a cast in one eye
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Short for worm cast
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A wide search made by a hound or pack of hounds to find a trail.
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A pair or group of hawks or falcons
He gave one thousand pounds for a cast of hawks
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The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production
He draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast
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To throw (something, especially something light)
The boy cast stones in the water.
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To throw with force; hurl
Waves that cast driftwood far up on the shore.
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To throw or propel a lure or bait at the end of (a fishing line) into the water so as to catch fish or other aquatic life.
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To throw (a net), as in fishing; cause to spread out.
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To throw on the ground, as in wrestling.
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To let fall; drop
Cast anchor.
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To roll or throw (dice, for example).
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To draw (lots).
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To shed; molt
The snake cast its skin.
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To deposit or indicate (a ballot or vote).
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To turn or direct
All eyes were cast upon the speaker.
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To cause to fall onto or over something or in a certain direction
Candles casting light.
Trees casting shadows.
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To assert in relation to someone or something or cause to be associated
Don't let him cast aspersions on your character. The results cast doubt on our hypothesis.
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To give birth to prematurely
The cow cast a calf.
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To cause (hunting hounds) to scatter and circle in search of a lost scent.
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To choose actors for (a play, for example).
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To assign a certain role to (an actor)
Cast her as the lead.
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To assign an actor to (a part)
Cast each role carefully.
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To form (liquid metal, for example) into a particular shape by pouring into a mold.
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To make (an object) by casting liquid metal.
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To arrange or devise
Cast the book in three parts.
Cast a plan.
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To calculate or compute; add up (a column of figures).
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To calculate astrologically
Cast my horoscope.
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To warp; twist
Floorboards cast by age.
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(Nautical) To turn (a ship); change to the opposite tack.
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To throw something, especially to throw out a lure or bait at the end of a fishing line.
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To add a column of figures; make calculations.
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To receive form or shape in a mold
A material that casts well.
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To become warped.
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To search for a lost scent in hunting with hounds.
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To veer to leeward from a former course; fall off.
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To put about; tack.
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To choose actors for the parts in a play, movie, or other theatrical presentation.
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The act or an instance of casting or throwing.
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The act or an instance of throwing a fishing line or net into the water.
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The line or net thrown.
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The distance covered by a throw.
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A throw of dice.
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The number on dice facing up when thrown.
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A stroke of fortune or fate; a lot.
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Something, such as molted skin, that is thrown off, out, or away.
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A piece of excrement produced by an earthworm.
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A direction or expression of the eyes.
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A slight squint.
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The addition of a column of figures; calculation.
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A conjecture; a forecast.
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The act of pouring molten material into a mold.
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The amount of molten material poured into a mold at a single operation.
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Something formed by this means or in a mold or matrix
The sculpture was a bronze cast. They made a cast of her face.
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A rigid dressing, usually made of gauze and plaster of Paris, used to immobilize an injured body part, as in a fracture or dislocation. Also called plaster cast.
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The form in which something is made or constructed; arrangement
The close-set cast of her features.
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Outward form or look; appearance
A suit of stylish cast.
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Sort; type
Fancied himself to be of a macho cast.
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An inclination; tendency
Her thoughtful cast of mind.
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The actors in a play, movie, or other theatrical presentation.
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A slight trace of color; a tinge.
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A distortion of shape.
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The circling of hounds to pick up a scent in hunting.
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A pair of hawks released by a falconer at one time.
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(physical) To move, or be moved, away.
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To throw.
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To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
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To throw down or aside.
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(of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
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To remove, take off (clothes).
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(nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
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(obsolete) To vomit.
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(archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
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(archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
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To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
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(dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
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(social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
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(astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
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(obsolete) To plan, intend.
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(transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
The director cast the part carefully.
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(transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
The director cast John Smith as King Lear.
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To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
To cast about for reasons
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(archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
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(archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
To be cast in damages
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To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
A casting voice
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To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
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To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
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(archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
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To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
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To stereotype or electrotype.
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To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
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(nautical) 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.
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To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
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(computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
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(hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
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(medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
Some are still missing examples
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(Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
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(media) 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.
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An act of throwing.
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(fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
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Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
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A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
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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.
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The casting procedure.
The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
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An object made in a mould.
The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
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A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
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The mould used to make cast objects.
A plaster cast was made from his face.
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(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
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A squint.
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Visual appearance.
Her features had a delicate cast to them.
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The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
A cast of mind, a mental tendency.
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Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
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A group of crabs.
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Cast

Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
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Cast

To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones.
Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.
We must be cast upon a certain island.
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To direct or turn, as the eyes.
How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!
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Cast

To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
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To throw down, as in wrestling.
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To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
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Cast

To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
His filth within being cast.
Neither shall your vine cast her fruit.
The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the viper, etc.
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Cast

To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
Thy she-goats have not cast their young.
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Cast

To throw out or emit; to exhale.
This . . . casts a sulphureous smell.
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Cast

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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To impose; to bestow; to rest.
The government I cast upon my brother.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
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Cast

To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
The state can not with safety cast him.
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To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
You cast the event of war, my noble lord.
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Cast

To contrive; to plan.
The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
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To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
She was cast to be hanged.
Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast.
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To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
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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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To stereotype or electrotype.
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To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
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To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
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To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.
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To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution this should be.
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To calculate; to compute.
Who would cast and balance at a desk.
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To receive form or shape in a mold.
It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
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To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters its flatness or straightness.
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To vomit.
These verses . . . make me ready to cast.
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Cast

The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
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Cast

The thing thrown.
A cast of dreadful dust.
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The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
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A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way.
I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.
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Cast

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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The act of casting in a mold.
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon.
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An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
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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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Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
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Cast

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
Gray with a cast of green.
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Cast

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage.
If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it.
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The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
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A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
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Cast

A stoke, touch, or trick.
This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false.
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Cast

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
And let you see with one cast of an eye.
This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eye.
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Cast

A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
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Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
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Contrivance; plot, design.
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The actors in a play
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Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
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The distinctive form in which a thing is made;
Pottery of this cast was found throughout the region
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The visual appearance of something or someone;
The delicate cast of his features
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Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
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Object formed by a mold
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The act of throwing dice
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The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
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A violent throw
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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
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Deposit;
Cast a vote
Cast a ballot
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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
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Throw forcefully
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Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors;
Who cast this beautiful movie?
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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
They rolled from town to town
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Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold;
Cast a bronze sculpture
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Get rid of;
He shed his image as a pushy boss
Shed your clothes
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Choose at random;
Draw a card
Cast lots
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Formulate in a particular style or language;
I wouldn't put it that way
She cast her request in very polite language
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Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
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(of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold
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