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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

... lands of the former royal hunting-lodge of Tegel. Though this was not, in strict sense, the home of the more famous younger brother, Alexander, these were his ancestral acres. Here he often came to this brother, whose death in his arms in 1835 cast a lasting shadow over his lonely life; and here, beside the brother and his family, his ...

— In and Around Berlin • Minerva Brace Norton

... Snitchey, putting the papers slowly back into the cast-iron box, 'there is no doubt about. No doubt about,' he repeated to himself, as he thoughtfully pursued ...

— The Battle of Life • Charles Dickens

... beat it up through the mountains that close in Nick's Valley. That way you'll get to the lake. Don't expect to see Nick's Cove, because it's off the map. When you get to the lake, find somebody. Get over to camp if you can—I don't care how. Maybe the boat we left in the cove is cast up there—you can't tell. Anyway, keep your head and don't get excited. The lake is there. It'll be lower than it was, but all the water below the valley level will be there. Get some people and take them to Rebels' Cave or whatever you ...

— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... indecencies remained untouched; or to show how Ariosto's Comedies were sanctioned, when his Satires, owing to their free speech upon the Papal Court, received the stigma.[153] But I may refer to the grotesque attempts which were made in this age to cast the mantle of spirituality over profane literature. Thus Hieronimo Malipieri rewrote the Canzoniere of Petrarch, giving it a pious turn throughout; and the Orlando Furioso was converted by several hands into ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... opportunity of conversing with some people who neither wanted sense, nor were deficient in point of principle; yet there appeared in the behaviour of them all, without exception, a certain want of decorum, a squalor of sentiment, a sort of jailish cast contracted in the course of confinement, which disgusted the delicacy of our hero's observation. He, therefore, detached himself from their parties as much as he could, without giving offence to those among whom he was obliged to live, and resumed his labours ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

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