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Cast

verb
(past & past part. cast; pres. part. casting)
1.
Put or send forth.  Synonyms: contrive, project, throw.  "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"
2.
Deposit.  "Cast a ballot"
3.
Select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.
4.
Throw forcefully.  Synonyms: hurl, hurtle.
5.
Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.
6.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "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"
7.
Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold.  Synonyms: mold, mould.
8.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"
9.
Choose at random.  Synonym: draw.  "Cast lots"
10.
Formulate in a particular style or language.  Synonyms: couch, frame, put, redact.  "She cast her request in very polite language"
11.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, be sick, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
noun
1.
The actors in a play.  Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae.
2.
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens.  Synonyms: mold, mould.
3.
The distinctive form in which a thing is made.  Synonyms: mold, mould, stamp.
4.
The visual appearance of something or someone.  Synonyms: form, shape.
5.
Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal.  Synonyms: plaster bandage, plaster cast.
6.
Object formed by a mold.  Synonym: casting.
7.
The act of throwing dice.  Synonym: roll.
8.
The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel.  Synonym: casting.
9.
A violent throw.  Synonym: hurl.



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"Cast" Quotes from Famous Books



... thankful if my seniors let me into their confidence, and we were not always dealing with one another at arm's length. All this, I fear, is uninteresting to you; but it means a good deal to me. The flighty Arthur does not appear to be much cast down by our troubles. I wish I could help him to a little of the ballast he so greatly needs. But, although I am the master of this house, I seem scarcely ever to see him. I hear him, though. I hear him this minute. He and his chum occupy the room over me, and when they execute a war ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed
... unbecoming and do not fit her, and that she has been under an illusion in thinking they were so rich and fine. For when the other garments are shown her, she feels she had been the most mistaken person in the world and longs to cast off the garments she is wearing, that she may put on ...
— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge
... surprised. Remembering their last passionate scene, and the damper Chilcote's subsequent presence must inevitably have cast upon it, he had expected to be doubtfully received; but the reality of the reception left him bewildered. Eve's manner was not that of the ill-used wife; its vehemence, its note of desire and depreciation, were more ...
— The Masquerader • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... idea that her honest vulgar little legatee and his speculations as a horse-breeder might make a good subject for a character-comedian; but I suppose the late LORD GEORGE SANGER is the only man who could have produced the right equine cast. ...
— Punch, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 - Or the London Charivari. • Various
... Now, when she entered, all men thought it their bounden duty to offer her becoming greetings, and these she received according as the men were agreeable to her. The franklin Thorkell took the wise-woman by the hand, and led her to the seat prepared for her. He requested her to cast her eyes over his herd, his household, and his homestead. She remained silent altogether. During the evening the tables were set; and now I must tell you what food was made ready for the spae-queen. There was prepared for her porridge of kid's milk, and hearts of ...
— Eirik the Red's Saga • Anonymous


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