Word: cast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp. The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast. Pronunciation: /kɑːst/, /kast/, /kæst/ 1. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: literary, physical Example: Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…]. Example: The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…]. 2. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical Example: As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers)[…]. 3. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical Example: So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […] Example: it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 4. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical 5. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical 6. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical Example: when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons[…]. Example: You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March. 7. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: physical 8. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: obsolete, physical Example: These verses[…]make me ready to cast. 9. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: archaic, physical Example: Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Example: Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons. 10. To move, or be moved, away. Labels: archaic, physical Example: 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies This […] casts a sulphurous smell. Example: This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness 11. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). Example: To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den. Example: She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement[…]. 12. To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. Example: To what this ten years' tribute will amount, That we have cast, but cannot compass it By reason of the wars, that robb'd our store Example: The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt. 13. To predict, to decide, to plan. Example: he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use. Example: John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so. 14. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: obsolete Example: [...] for the quene had cast to haue ben ageyne with kyng Arthur at the ferthest by ten of the clok / and soo was that tyme her purpoos. [...] "for the queen had cast to have been again with King Arthur at the furthest by ten of the clock, and so was that time her purpose." Example: I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed. 15. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: transitive Example: The director cast the part carefully. 16. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: transitive Example: The director cast John Smith as King Lear. 17. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: transitive Example: King John cast his predecessor in a negative light to deflect criticism of his own questionable decisions. 18. To predict, to decide, to plan. Example: to cast about for reasons Example: She[…]cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 19. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: archaic Example: The government I cast upon my brother. Example: Cast thy burden upon the Lord. 20. To predict, to decide, to plan. Labels: archaic Example: to be cast in damages Example: She was cast to be hanged. 21. To predict, to decide, to plan. Example: a casting voice Example: 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! 22. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment). Example: Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another. Example: While I could tell my little witch was growing stronger with each piece of loot, I got tired of casting fireball after fireball and looting gear with three more health. 23. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction. Example: The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years. Example: A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance. 24. To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. Labels: archaic Example: being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [translating avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose. Example: The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal. 25. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. Example: One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn. Example: The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out. 26. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. Labels: dated 27. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). Example: Stuff is said to cast or warp when[…]it alters its flatness or straightness. 28. To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. 29. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). Example: Time to tell all the ballots cast by voters in the box. 30. To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. Example: To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type. 31. Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. Example: He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again. 32. To set (a bone etc.) in a cast. 33. To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches. 34. To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television. Example: The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.