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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"

noun

1.

The actors in a play. Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae.

2.

Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens. Synonyms: mold, mould.

3.

The distinctive form in which a thing is made. Synonyms: mold, mould, stamp.

4.

The visual appearance of something or someone. Synonyms: form, shape.

5.

Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal. Synonyms: plaster bandage, plaster cast.

6.

Object formed by a mold. Synonym: casting.

7.

The act of throwing dice. Synonym: roll.

8.

The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel. Synonym: casting.

9.

A violent throw. Synonym: hurl.

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"Cast" Quotes from Famous Books

... period, which produced the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey", needs no description here: but it is very important to observe the effect of these poems on the course of post-Homeric epic. As the supreme perfection and universality of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" cast into oblivion whatever pre-Homeric poets had essayed, so these same qualities exercised a paralysing influence over the successors of Homer. If they continued to sing like their great predecessor of romantic themes, they were drawn as by a kind of magnetic attraction into the Homeric style and manner ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... this was that the girl who had rehearsed Patricia Devereux's part, an ambitious, well-equipped young woman who would have added much-needed strength to the cast, delivered an ultimatum during the last rehearsal but one, and on having her very reasonable demands rejected, walked out. Olga Larson, who had understudied Patricia ever since the Chicago opening, was given the part. ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... two pictures before us. One, on paper yellow with the moth of years, is the portrait of an actor in the costume of Richard III. What a classic face! English features are rarely cast in that antique mould. The head sits lightly on its columnar neck, and is topped with dark-brown curls, that cluster like the acanthus; the gray eyes are those which were justly described as being "at times full of fire, intelligence, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various

... but I thank you for your offer. In return for your courtesy, I warn you that my master's skiff is fast to the step of the house. It might be recognised. When you have killed me, you had better cast it off—it will ...

— Marietta - A Maid of Venice • F. Marion Crawford

... some day their old heroes would come again, for certainly none had ever seen them die. Now it had been the wont of these six warriors of old, as each received his last wound and knew it to be mortal, to ride away to a certain deep ravine and cast his body in, as somewhere I have read great elephants do, hiding their bones away from lesser beasts. It was a ravine steep and narrow even at the ends, a great cleft into which no man could come by any path. There rode ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

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