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Casting   /kˈæstɪŋ/   Listen
Casting

noun
1.
Object formed by a mold.  Synonym: cast.
2.
The act of creating something by casting it in a mold.  Synonym: molding.
3.
The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel.  Synonym: cast.
4.
The choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie.



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"



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"Casting" Quotes from Famous Books



... are suitable for fly-casting and experienced fishermen delight in that method of filling their creel. To cast a gossamer silk line with an alluring fly into the deeper pools and to feel the thrill of a strike as the fly flits over the surface ...
— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various

... said, with glowing pride, casting a sneer on the king's hospitality, "In the days of yore, Sunna, whenever visitors came to see him, immediately presented them with women, and, secondly, with food; for he was very particular in looking after his guests' ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... hurriedly up and down the room, casting furtive glances at the bed. The night was quiet again, but still that cry rang through it and lashed his brain. He recalled the theory that sound never dies. The waves of space had yielded this ...
— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... vehement. Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity[1373]. His practice, indeed, I must acknowledge, may be considered as casting the balance of his different opinions upon this subject; for I never knew any man who relished good eating more than he did. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment; his looks ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... weight, and yet easily carried and worn, when he seeth how free grace and love hath lined it, and free grace and free love sets it on and keeps it on for ever; this makes the glorified saint wear it with ease, by casting it down at the feet of the gracious and loving purchaser and bestower. His exaltation is the saint's glory, and by free grace, the saints receiving and holding all of free grace, is he exalted. O what a glory is it to the saint, to ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)


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