Cast meanings. All definitions of Cast

countable noun cast The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it. 4

abbreviation Definition of CAST in Technology explicit type conversion 3

verb cast To cast an actor in a play or film means to choose them to act a particular role in it. 3

verb cast To cast someone in a particular way or as a particular thing means to describe them in that way or suggest they are that thing. 3

verb cast If you cast your eyes or cast a look in a particular direction, you look quickly in that direction. 3

verb cast If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there. 3

verb cast To cast doubt on something means to cause people to be unsure about it. 3

verb cast When you cast your vote in an election, you vote. 3

verb cast To cast something or someone somewhere means to throw them there. 3

verb cast If someone casts a fishing line or casts, they throw one end of the fishing line into the water. 3

verb cast To cast an object means to make it by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a specially shaped container and leaving it there until it becomes hard. 3

countable noun cast A cast is a model that has been made by pouring a liquid such as plaster or hot metal onto something or into something, so that when it hardens it has the same shape as that thing. 3

countable noun cast A cast is the same as a plaster cast. 3

countable noun cast If someone has a particular cast of mind or cast of thought, they have that kind of character or way of thinking of things. 3

verb cast to throw or expel with violence or force 3

verb cast to throw off or away 3

verb cast to reject or dismiss 3

verb cast to shed or drop 3

verb cast to cause to appear 3

verb cast to express (doubts, suspicions, etc) or cause (them) to be felt 3

verb cast to direct (a glance, attention, etc) 3

verb cast to place, esp in a violent manner 3

verb cast to throw (a line) into the water 3

verb cast to draw or choose (lots) 3

verb cast to give or deposit (a vote) 3

verb cast to select (actors) to play parts in (a play, film, etc) 3

verb cast to shape (molten metal, glass, etc) by pouring or pressing it into a mould 3

verb cast to make (an object) by such a process 3

verb cast to compute (figures or a total) 3

verb cast to predict 3

verb cast 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, etc 3

verb cast to contrive (esp in the phrase cast a spell) 3

verb cast to formulate 3

verb cast to twist or cause to twist 3

verb cast to turn the head of (a sailing vessel) or (of a sailing vessel) to be turned away from the wind in getting under way 3

verb cast to direct (a pack of hounds) over (ground) where their quarry may recently have passed 3

verb cast (of birds of prey) to eject from the crop and bill a pellet consisting of the indigestible parts of birds or animals previously eaten 3

verb cast to hold the body of a hawk between the hands so as to perform some operation upon it 3

verb cast to stereotype or electrotype 3

noun cast the act of casting or throwing 3

noun cast something that is shed, dropped, or egested, such as the coil of earth left by an earthworm 3

noun cast an object that is thrown 3

noun cast the distance an object is or may be thrown 3

noun cast a throw at dice 3

noun cast the resulting number shown 3

noun cast a trace with a fly or flies attached 3

noun cast the act or an instance of casting 3

noun cast the wide sweep made by a sheepdog to get behind a flock of sheep or by a hunting dog in search of a scent 3

noun cast the actors in a play collectively 3

noun cast (as modifier) 3

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