Definition of Cast

Cast

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To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.

To direct or turn, as the eyes.

To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.

To throw down, as in wrestling.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.

To bring forth prematurely; to slink.

To throw out or emit; to exhale.

To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.

To impose; to bestow; to rest.

To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.

To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.

To contrive; to plan.

To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.

To stereotype or electrotype.

To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.

To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.

To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.

To calculate; to compute.

To receive form or shape in a mold.

To warp; to become twisted out of shape.

To vomit.

3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.

The act of casting or throwing; a throw.

The thing thrown.

The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.

A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.

That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.

The act of casting in a mold.

An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.

A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.

The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.

A stoke, touch, or trick.

A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.

A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.

Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

Contrivance; plot, design.

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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

The die is cast.
Julius Caesar

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Marcus Aurelius