Dictionary Definition
cast adj : (of molten metal or glass) formed by
pouring or pressing into a mold
Noun
1 the actors in a play [syn: cast of
characters, dramatis
personae]
3 the distinctive form in which a thing is made;
"pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn:
mold, stamp]
4 the visual appearance of something or someone;
"the delicate cast of his features" [syn: form, shape]
5 bandage consisting of a firm covering (often
made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they
heal [syn: plaster
cast, plaster
bandage]
6 object formed by a mold [syn: casting]
7 the act of throwing dice [syn: roll]
8 the act of throwing a fishing line out over the
water by means of a rod and reel [syn: casting]
9 a violent throw [syn: hurl]
Verb
1 put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight
beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast
a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, contrive, throw]
2 deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"
3 select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play,
movie, musical, opera, or ballet; "He cast a young woman in the
role of Desdemona"
5 assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to
actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?"
6 move about aimlessly or without any
destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies
roamed the woods"; "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" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
7 form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a
cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" [syn: mold, mould]
8 get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy
boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: shed, cast off,
shake
off, throw, throw off,
throw
away, drop]
9 choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"
[syn: draw]
10 formulate in a particular style or language;
"I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
language" [syn: frame,
redact, put, couch]
11 eject the contents of the stomach through the
mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last
night" [syn: vomit,
vomit
up, purge, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant:
keep
down]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Extensive Definition
- For acronym usages see CAST.
Cast may refer
to:
- Casting, a process by which a material is introduced into a mould while liquid, and allowed to solidify into a specific shape
- Caste, social division in society
- Casting
(performing arts), a pre-production process for selecting a
cast of actors and other talent
- Cast member, (c.1631) a group of performers in a play, movie, or performing arts.
- Orthopedic cast, a protective shell to hold a broken bone in place until it has healed
- In archaeology, a cavity formed by the decomposition of wood furnishings or human or animal remains, previously covered due to volcanic ash fall
In popular culture:
- Cast (comic), a comic series published in the Philippines
In music:
- Cast (band), an English rock and roll band from the 1990s
- Cast (Mexican band), a progressive Mexican rock band
Other
- Cast, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère département, in France
- Cast (earthworm), mineral-rich organic matter that is excreted by earthworms
- Urinary casts, tubules found in urine
- Casting (tails), a process whereby animals can 'drop' their tail, which may or may not regenerate
- Cast (archery), the distance a bow can shoot its arrow
See also
- Casting (disambiguation)
- Type conversion, a programming language method for changing data types
cast in French:
Cast
cast in Italian:
Cast
cast in Dutch:
Cast
cast in Japanese:
キャスト
cast in Simple English:
Cast
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Ace bandage, Band-Aid,
Platonic form, Platonic idea, a thing for, abandon, abdicate, about ship, account, achromatism, acting company,
actor, add, address, adhesive tape,
aesthetic form, affinity, age group, aggregate, aim, air, algebraize, amount, animus, antagonist, antihero, application, appoint, aptitude, aptness, archetype, aroma, arrange, arrangement, art form,
assemble, assembled, assign, attribute, back and fill,
badge, band, bandage, bandaging, barf, battalion, be confined,
bear, bear a child, bear
away, bear off, bear to starboard, bear young, bearing, beat, beat about, bent, bevy, bias, binder, bit, bit part, blaze, blink, block out, blood, blueprint, body, body-build, boot out,
born, bounce, bowl, box off, box score, brace, brand, break, breed, brigade, bring about, bring
round, bring up, broadcast, bronze, brow, build, built, bullion, bunch, bung, burn, burn in, burn off, button, cabal, cachet, calculate, calve, calved, cant, cant round, carriage, carve, cashier, cast about, cast aside,
cast at, cast away, cast of characters, cast of countenance, cast
off, cast out, casting,
cataplasm, catapult, cauterize, change course,
change of pace, change the heading, change-up, char, character, characteristic, characteristics,
characters, chart, chase, chisel, choose, chorus, chromatism, chromism, chuck, chuck at, chuck out,
chunk, cipher, circus troupe, clan, clap, class, clique, coal, cohort, color, color balance, color
harmony, color scheme, coloration, coloring, come about, company, complement, complexion, compose, composition, compound, compress, compute, conatus, concert, concoct, conduciveness, configuration, conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, constructed, contingent, contrive, convergent
strabismus, corps, corps
de ballet, coterie,
cotton, count, countenance, court plaster,
covey, crack, crafted, crap, craps, crasis, cravat, create, created, crew, cross-eye, cross-eyedness,
crowd, cue, cupel, curve, custom, custom-built,
custom-made, cut, cut out,
dart, dash, decorator color, deep-six,
defenestrate,
delegate, delight, demeanor, denomination, description, design, designate, designation, desquamation, detachment, detail, detrude, devise, dharma, diathesis, die, difference, differentia, differential, discard, discharge, disgorge, dismiss, disperse, dispose of, disposition, distinctive
feature, distribute,
ditch, divide, division, doff, dope out, double a point,
downcurve, dramatis
personae, dressing,
drive out, drop, dropped, dump, eagerness, earmark, eccentricity, efform, eight, eighty-six, eject, elaborate, elastic bandage,
eleven, eliminate, engrave, ensemble, epithem, erect, esotropia, estimate, ethos, evict, evolve, exclude, exile, exotropia, expel, expression, extract roots,
extracted, extrude, exuviae, exuviate, fabricate, fabricated, face, facial appearance, faction, farrow, fashion, fashioned, fastball, fat part, favor, fawn, feather, feature, features, feeder, feeling for, fetch about,
fiber, figuration, figure, figure in, figure out,
fire, fire at, first
string, first team, five,
fix, flame, flash, flavor, fleet, fling, fling at, flip, foal, foaled, foot, forecast, foretelling, forge, forged, fork, form, formalize, format, formation, formed, formulate, formulation, forward pass,
found, four-tailed
bandage, frame, fudge
together, gang, garb, gate, gathered, gauze, genius, genre, genus, get quit of, get rid of,
get shut of, get up, give away, give birth, give the hook, given
birth, giving birth, glance, gleam, glimpse, go about, grain, grave, group, grouping, groupment, grown, guise, gust, gybe, habit, half an eye, hallmark, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, hatched, have, have a baby, have young,
heave, heave at, heave
out, heave round, heavy,
hero, heroine, heterotropia, hew, hint, homemade, homespun, hue, humor, humors, hurl, hurl against, hurl at,
hurtle, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress, impression, in-group,
inclination,
incline, incurve, index, indite, individualism, ingenue, ingot, inner form, insculpture, intaglio, intend, intimation, irregularity, jerk, jettison, jibe, jibe all standing, jilt, junk, junta, key, keynote, kick downstairs, kick
out, kidney, kin, kind, kitten, knead, knock out, knuckleball, label, labor, lamb, lance, last, lateral, lateral pass, launch, lay, lay out, lay plans, layout, lead, lead role, leading lady,
leading man, leading woman, leaning, leave, let fly, let fly at,
level, liability, lick, lick into shape, lie in,
liking, line, lineaments, lines, lint, lister, litter, lob, look, look for, looks, lot, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, make, make a projection, make
arrangements, make up, makeup, man-made, manner, mannerism, manufacture, manufactured, marble, mark, marking, maroon, matrix, mature, measure, mental set, methodize, mettle, mien, milled, mind, mind-set, mined, mint, miss stays, mob, mobile, modality, mode, model, mold, molded, molding, molt, mould, movement, multiply, name, natural, natural color, nature, nee, negative, newborn, nick, nine, nominate, number, obtrude, odor, on, organize, oust, out-group, outcurve, outfit, oxidate, oxidize, pack, pallor, parch, part, part with, particularity, party, pass, patch together, pattern, peculiarity, peek, peep, peer group, peg, pelt, penchant, person, personage, persuasion, phalanx, phylum, physiognomy, physique, pick, piece, piece together, pig, pitch, pitchfork, plan, plan ahead, plank, plaster, plaster cast, platoon, pledget, plop, plump, plunk, ply, point, port, posse, posture, poultice, prearrange, predilection, predisposition, prefab, prefabricate, prefabricated, preference, prejudice, prepare, presence, prevision, probability, processed, proclivity, produce, product, prognosis, prognostication,
program, project, proneness, propensity, property, prophecy, protagonist, prototype, puke, punch, pup, put, put about, put back, put out,
put the shot, put together, put up, pyrolyze, quality, quantity, quick sight, quirk, race, raise, raised, rapid glance, rationalize, readiness, ready-for-wear,
ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, rear, reckon, reckoning, refined, regiment, regulus, reject, relinquish, remove, repertory company,
reserves, role, roll, roller, roller bandage, rough
out, roughcast,
roughhew, round a
point, rowing crew, rubber bandage, run up, salon, savor, scatter, schedule, schematize, scintilla, scorch, score, scrap, screwball, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, seal, sear, search for, second string,
second team, seek, select, send, sensitivity to, serve, service, set, set up, shade, shadow, shape, shaped, shed, sheer, sheet metal, shift, shipwreck, shoe last, shot, shot-put, shy, shy at, side, significant form, singe, singularity, sinker, sip, skin color, slant, slap, slew, slider, sling, sling at, slough, smack, smattering, smell, smelted, snap, soft spot, solder, somatotype, sort, soubrette, soupcon, sow, spark, specialty, species, spew, spirit, spitball, spitter, splint, sponge, sprinkling, squad, squinch, squint, squiz, stabile, stable, stamp, stance, statue, stillborn, stock company,
strabismus, straight
part, strain, streak, string, stripe, structure, stupe, style, subtract, suchness, suggestion, sum, summate, summation, sup, supporting cast, supporting
character, supporting role, surrender, susceptibility, suspicion, swerve, swing round, swing the
stern, swinge, system, systematize, tack, tailor, taint, take account of, tale, tally, tampon, tang, tape, taste, team, temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, tent, terra cotta, the bottom line,
the like of, the likes of, the story, the whole story, thermoform, third string,
thought, throw, throw about, throw at,
throw away, throw off, throw out, throw over, throw overboard,
throw up, thrust, thrust
out, tilt, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, title role, token, tone, torrefy, toss, toss at, toss out, toss
overboard, tot, total, tote, touch, tourniquet, trace, train, trait, traits, travail, triangular bandage,
tribe, trick, troop, tropism, troupe, turn, turn back, turn of mind, turn
out, twist, type, undercolor, upchuck, upcurve, upward strabismus,
variety, varsity, veer, vein, vesicate, villain, visage, vulcanize, walk-on, walking
part, walleye, warp, way, weakness, wear, wear ship, weird, weld, well-built, well-constructed,
well-made, whelp, whelped, whole, whomp up, willingness, wind, wing, wink, work, work out, work up, write, x number, yaw, yean, yield