cast
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: casts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: casting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: casted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: casted
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: castest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: castest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: casts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: casteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: casting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: literary
physical
examples: 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[…].
The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…].
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
examples: 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)[…].
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
examples: 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 […]
it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
examples: 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[…].
You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: physical
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
physical
examples: These verses[…]make me ready to cast.
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
physical
examples: Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
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.
gloss: To move, or be moved, away.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
physical
examples: 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.
This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness
gloss: To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
pos: verb
examples: To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement[…].
But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
gloss: To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
pos: verb
examples: 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
The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.
I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.
I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.
They cast it up and found it agreed with the printed balance-sheet.
Obtain an aged list of accounts receivable balances at the financial year end and use CAATs to cast and cross-cast the schedule and agree the total to the general ledger control account for accounts receivable.
Obtain a list of individual customers with balances outstanding at the year end, cast this and agree it to the trade receivables account.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
examples: he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
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.
He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: [...] 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."
I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
The cloister[…]had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The director cast the part carefully.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The director cast John Smith as King Lear.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: King John cast his predecessor in a negative light to deflect criticism of his own questionable decisions.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
examples: to cast about for reasons
She[…]cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: The government I cast upon my brother.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: to be cast in damages
She was cast to be hanged.
Were the case referred to any competent judge, […]they would inevitably be cast.
gloss: To predict, to decide, to plan.
pos: verb
examples: a casting voice
24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored
How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
gloss: To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
pos: verb
examples: Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.
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.
gloss: To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
pos: verb
examples: The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
The Poet and the Painter
Casting shadows on the water
As the sun plays on the infantry
Returning from the sea.
gloss: To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
pos: verb
examples: Stuff is said to cast or warp when[…]it alters its flatness or straightness.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
pos: verb
examples: Time to tell all the ballots cast by voters in the box.
gloss: To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
pos: verb
examples: To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type.
gloss: Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
pos: verb
gloss: To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
pos: verb
gloss: To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
pos: verb
examples: The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.
gloss: Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: aftercast
colorcast
fan cast
forecast
miscast
offcast
precast
recast
sidecast
surfcast
undercast
audiocast
beachcast
becast
bicast
broadcast
castability
castable
cast about
cast accounts
cast a chill
cast adrift
cast anchor
cast a pall
cast around
cast a shadow
cast aside
cast aspersions
cast away
cast back
cast caution to the wind
cast dispersions
cast down
caster
cast in concrete
casting
casting call
casting couch
casting director
cast in one's lot with
cast-in-place
cast in someone's teeth
cast iron
cast-iron
cast light on
cast loose
cast-me-down
cast not a clout till May be out
cast off
cast-off
cast oil on troubled waters
cast on
cast one's bread upon the waters
cast one's lot with
cast one's mind back
cast one's net far and wide
cast one's net wide
cast one's net wider
cast one's vote
castor
cast out
cast out nines
cast over
cast pearls before swine
cast round
cast snowballs
cast someone's water
cast something in someone's teeth
cast the first stone
cast up
cast up one's accounts
cloudcast
continuous casting
cross-cast
die-cast
downcast
forcast
forcasten
forncast
forthcast
let he who is without sin cast the first stone
let him that is without sin cast the first stone
let him who is without sin cast the first stone
ne'er cast a clout till May be out
newcast
old sins cast long shadows
opencast
outcast
overcast
podcast
roughcast
sand-cast
slush-cast
the die is cast
typecast
umbecast
umcast
uncast
upcast
videocast
vodcast
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ձուլել
roman: julel
lang: Bulgarian
word: отливам
roman: otlivam
lang: Catalan
word: fondre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鑄 /铸
roman: zhù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鑄造 /铸造
roman: zhùzào
lang: Czech
word: lít
lang: Czech
word: odlít
lang: Dutch
word: gieten
lang: Finnish
word: valaa
lang: French
word: couler
lang: French
word: fondre
lang: Georgian
word: ჩამოსხმა
roman: čamosxma
lang: Georgian
word: სხმა
roman: sxma
lang: German
word: gießen
lang: Ingrian
word: valella
lang: Italian
word: colare
lang: Italian
word: fondere
lang: Italian
word: gettare
lang: Japanese
word: 鋳る
roman: iru
lang: Central Kurdish
word: داڕشتن
roman: darriştin
lang: Māori
word: hangarewa
lang: Mongolian
word: цутгах
roman: cutgax
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: støpe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: støype
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: støype
lang: Polish
word: odlewać
lang: Polish
word: odlać
lang: Polish
word: ulewać
lang: Polish
word: ulać
lang: Polish
word: formować
lang: Polish
word: uformować
lang: Portuguese
word: moldar
lang: Quechua
word: hich'ay
lang: Russian
word: отлива́ть
roman: otlivátʹ
lang: Russian
word: отли́ть
roman: otlítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: moldear
lang: Swedish
word: gjuta
lang: Thai
word: หล่อ
roman: lɔ̀ɔ
lang: Finnish
word: lastoittaa
lang: French
word: plâtrer
lang: Italian
word: ingessare
lang: Spanish
word: enyesar
lang: Spanish
word: escayolar
lang: Turkish
word: alçıya almak