verb (
mainly transitive)
casts, casting, cast 1. to throw or expel with violence or force
2. to throw off or away: she cast her clothes to the ground
3. to reject or dismiss: he cast the idea from his mind
4. to shed or drop: the snake cast its skin, the horse cast a shoe, the ship cast anchor
5. (NZ) be cast, (of a sheep) to have fallen and been unable to rise
6. to cause to appear: to cast a shadow
7. to express (doubts, suspicions, etc) or cause (them) to be felt
8. to direct (a glance, attention, etc): cast your eye over this
9. to place, esp in a violent manner: he was cast into prison
10. (also intransitive) (angling) to throw (a line) into the water
11. to draw or choose (lots)
12. to give or deposit (a vote)
13. to select (actors) to play parts in (a play, film, etc)
14. - to shape (molten metal, glass, etc) by pouring or pressing it into a mould
- to make (an object) by such a process
15. (also intransitive) often foll by up. to compute (figures or a total)
16. to predict: the old woman cast my fortune
17. (astrology) to draw on (a horoscope) details concerning the positions of the planets in the signs of the zodiac at a particular time for interpretation in terms of human characteristics, behaviour
18. to contrive (esp in the phrase cast a spell)
19. to formulate: he cast his work in the form of a chart
20. (also intransitive) to twist or cause to twist
21. (also intransitive) (nautical) to turn the head of (a sailing vessel) or (of a sailing vessel) to be turned away from the wind in getting under way
22. (hunting) to direct (a pack of hounds) over (ground) where their quarry may recently have passed
23. (intransitive) (of birds of prey) to eject from the crop and bill a pellet consisting of the indigestible parts of birds or animals previously eaten
24. (falconry) to hold the body of a hawk between the hands so as to perform some operation upon it
25. (printing) to stereotype or electrotype
26. cast in one's lot with, throw in one's lot with, to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
noun 27. the act of casting or throwing
28. - Also called casting. something that is shed, dropped, or egested, such as the coil of earth left by an earthworm
- another name for pellet (sense 4)
29. an object that is thrown
30. the distance an object is or may be thrown
31. - a throw at dice
- the resulting number shown
32. (
angling)
- a trace with a fly or flies attached
- the act or an instance of casting
33. the wide sweep made by a sheepdog to get behind a flock of sheep or by a hunting dog in search of a scent
34. - the actors in a play collectively
- (as modifier): a cast list
35. - an object made of metal, glass, etc, that has been shaped in a molten state by being poured or pressed into a mould
- the mould used to shape such an object
38. a fixed twist or defect, esp in the eye
39. a distortion of shape
40. (surgery) a rigid encircling casing, often made of plaster of Paris, for immobilizing broken bones while they heal
41. (pathol) a mass of fatty, waxy, cellular, or other material formed in a diseased body cavity, passage, etc
42. the act of casting a pack of hounds
43. (falconry) a pair of falcons working in combination to pursue the same quarry
44. (archery) the speed imparted to an arrow by a particular bow
45. a slight tinge or trace, as of colour
46. a computation or calculation
47. a forecast or conjecture
48. fortune or a stroke of fate
49. (palaeontol) a replica of an organic object made of nonorganic material, esp a lump of sediment that indicates the internal or external surface of a shell or skeleton
50. (palaeontol) a sedimentary structure representing the infilling of a mark or depression in a soft layer of sediment (or bed)