Definition of cast in English English dictionary
- To plan, intend (to do something)
I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
- To add up a column of figures; cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures
I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.
- An object made in a mould
The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote)
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew
He’s in the cast of Oliver.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones
The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent
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.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.)
he is a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc
I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
- An act of throwing
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea
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) .
- 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
- To throw
The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow .
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.)
- Specifically, to throw down or aside
Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
- The mould used to make cast objects
A plaster cast was made of his face.
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction
A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm
The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.''.
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast
- The casting procedure
The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
- To give birth to prematurely; to miscarry
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.
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.)
She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement .
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way
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.
- An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance
- A group of crabs
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird
- To remove, take off (clothes)
You know the saying, Ne'er cast a clout till May is out? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text
Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
- Visual appearance
Her features had a delicate cast to them.
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water
- To assign a role in a play or performance
The director cast the part carefully.
- A squint
- The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it. The show is very amusing and the cast are very good
- {v} to throw, sling, shed, contrive, form, grow crooked, overcome
- {n} a throw, motion, squint, turn, form, shade
- To direct or turn, as the eyes
- To lose the hair or fur of the coat, usually in spring
- A cast is the same as a plaster cast. see also casting
- That which is formed in a mild; esp
- A notation used to express the conversion of one type to another It can be expressed using either functional notation or cast notation
- choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"
- (1) (verb) To form a substances into a particular shape, as by pouring it into a mold and letting it harden; (2) (noun) that which is formed in a mold or form; (3) a mold
- The act of casting or throwing; a throw
- Explicit conversion (or coercion) of a type in contrast to automatic conversions which are implicit and can occur across assignments and in mixed expressions E g , if i is an int, then '(double)i' casts the value of i so that the expression has type double The cast operator '(<type>)' is a unary operator having the same precedence as other unaries
- (plastic sheeting) (1) application of liquid plastic resins onto a moving belt or precipitating into a chemical bath to form a sheet; (2) something shaped in a mold while in fluid or plastic state
- To dismiss; to discard; to cashier
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"
- The thing thrown
- {f} throw; project; form, shape; mold; choose actors (for a play, movie, etc.)
- When you cast your vote in an election, you vote. About ninety-five per cent of those who cast their votes approve the new constitution Gaviria had been widely expected to obtain well over half the votes cast
- formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
- bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
- To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose
- To receive form or shape in a mold
- 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
- a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc
- Where Java does not permit the use of a source value of one type, it is necessary to use a cast to force the compiler to accept the use for the target type Care should be taken with casting values of primitive types, because this often involves loss of information Casts on object references are checked at runtime for legality A ClassCastException exception will be thrown for illegal ones
- To throw something down or toss something aside
- the act of throwing dice
- assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?"
- To make by pouring into a mould
- of Cast, for Casteth
- To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel
- To cast doubt on something means to cause people to be unsure about it. Last night a top criminal psychologist cast doubt on the theory
- A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture
- To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages
- - A replica of an organism created when minerals use the organism as a mold to create the replica For example, a shell fills with minerals, the shell dissolves away and the cast (inside of the shell) is left behind
- Also coerce Convert a variable from one type to another
- cast a chill
- To provoke an uneasy feeling which stops a conversation, as by an uncalled act or word
the perusal of the letter he had brought from his master cast a chill over things. — Kazimierz Waliszewski, Ivan the Terrible, Part 4, Chapter 2, translated by Lady Mary Loyd.
- cast accounts
- To perform basic bookkeeping
- cast accounts
- To be numerate; to be capable of arithmetic. One who casts accounts may only be one equipped with that accomplishment; as one who reads is not necessarily reading, nor inclined to it, but literate
- cast adrift
- To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them
- cast adrift
- To abandon a ship at sea
- cast aspersions
- to make damaging or spiteful remarks
Don’t cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism.
- cast away
- To discard
She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
- cast away
- To abandon or maroon
The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
- cast fossil
- A fossil formed when an animal, plant, or other organism dies, its flesh decays and bones deteriorate due to chemical reactions; minerals gradually enter into the cavity, resulting in a cast, also called a mold fossil, which is in the general form of the original organism
- cast fossils
- plural form of cast fossil
- cast iron
- A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould
Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.
- cast iron
- Durable; tough; resiliant
Ernest has a cast-iron constitution and never gets sick.
- cast iron
- Inflexible or without exception
The school's cast-iron policy on admissions fees left no leeway for needy students.
- cast iron
- Made of cast iron
I use a castiron skillet for frying pancakes.
- cast net
- a (usually weighted) fishing net that is thrown and then pulled back via an attached line
- cast nets
- plural form of cast net
- cast off
- To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may proceed
- cast off
- To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle
- cast off
- To discard or reject something
- cast on
- to start the first row of knitting by putting stitches on a needle
- cast one's vote
- To vote for something
- cast out
- To drive out; to expel
- cast out nines
- To apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of these specific integer combinations
- cast pearls before swine
- To give things of value to those who will not understand or appreciate it
- cast the first stone
- To act self-righteously in accusing another person, believing that one is blameless
I knew I couldn't cast the first stone as I knew I had weaknesses. ... (But) as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law I have no choice but to move forward and say you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials.
- cast up one's accounts
- To vomit
- cast-iron
- Alternative spelling of cast iron
- cast a pall over
- (Ev ile ilgili) Spoil something
- cast cutter
- (Tıp, İlaç) An electrically powered vibrating saw used to cut through plaster or synthetic casts; cast saw
- cast doubt
- (deyim) If you make other people not sure about a matter, then you have cast doubt on it
- cast doubt on
- (deyim) If you make other people not sure about a matter, then you have cast doubt on it
- cast light
- (deyim) To explain; illuminate; clarify
The letters that were found suddenly cast a new light on the circumstances of Tom's disappearance.
- cast saw
- (Tıp, İlaç) An electrically powered vibrating saw used to cut through plaster or synthetic casts. Referred to commonly as a Cast Cutter
- cast the first stone
- To be the first to blame someone, lead accusers against a wrongdoer. "Jesus said that a person who was without sin could cast the first stone.", "Although Ben saw the girl cheating, he did not want to cast the first stone."
- cast your mind back
- (deyim) If somebody tells you to cast your mind back on something, they want you to think about something that happened in the past, but which you might not remember very well, and to try to remember as much as possible
- casting
- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc
- casting
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature
- casting
- Present participle of cast
- caste
- the division of society on artificial grounds
- casting
- {n} a vessel or other thing cast
- cast aside
- put aside, push to the side; abandon, neglect
- cast aside
- throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
- cast aside
- If you cast aside someone or something, you get rid of them because they are no longer necessary or useful to you. Sweden needs to cast aside outdated policies and thinking
- cast away
- throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
- cast away
- throw away, toss away; be sunk (of a ship)
- cast down
- lower the spirits of a person; discourage
- cast down
- sad and disappointed
- cast down
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
- cast iron
- A material used in fan manufacture Liquid iron is poured into a mold to produce a part This material was used at first for motor housings and bases of fans As manufacturing techniques progressed motor housings were made of stamped steel Eventually even the base was made of stamped steel
- cast iron
- an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting
- cast iron
- Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting. Made from cast iron, it is finished in graphite enamel. the cast-iron chair legs
- cast iron
- Also called pig iron Covers a large group of irons with 2% or more carbon The high quantity of carbon makes cast iron brittle and suitable for forming only by casting and machining It cannot be forged The lack of ductility, high stiffness and deadening qualities makes cast iron a superior material for machinery beds and frames Average density of cast iron, 7 377 g/cm3, 2665 lbs/cuin, 460 51 lbs/cuft
- cast iron
- Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel
- cast iron
- It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard
- cast iron
- A generic term for a large family of cast ferrous alloys in which the carbon content exceeds solubility of carbon in austenite at the eutectic temperature Most cast irons contain at least 2% carbon, plus silicon and sulfur, and may or may not contain other alloying elements For the various forms gray cast iron, white cast iron, malleable cast iron and ductile cast iron, the word "cast" is often left out, resulting in "gray iron," "white iron," "malleable iron," and "ductile iron," respectively
- cast iron
- Term used to describe a series of ferrous alloys containing over 1 74% of carbon
- cast iron
- A hard, brittle iron produced commercially in blast furnaces by pouring it into molds where it cools and hardens Extensively used as a building material in the early 19th century, it was superseded by steel and ferroconcrete
- cast iron
- a brittle iron cast from molten iron to a specific shape
- cast iron
- Metallic iron containing more than 2% dissolved carbon within its matrix (as opposed to steel which contains less than 2%)and less than 4 5% Because of its cost, relative ease of manufacture and thermal stability cast iron (sometimes referred to as "gray cast iron" because of its characteristic color, but is actually a more specialized material for brake applications) is the material of choice for almost all automotive brake discs To work correctly, the parts must be produced at the foundry with tightly monitored chemistry and cooling cycles to control the shape, distribution and form of the precipitation of the excess carbon This is done to minimize distortion in machining, provide good wear characteristics, dampen vibration and resist cracking in subsequent use
- cast iron
- Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc
- cast iron
- a ferrous alloy with carbon content between 2 and 4 5 wt%
- cast iron
- forged iron, molded iron; strong, reinforced
- cast iron
- Material used to manufacture such plumbing fixtures as sinks, bathtubs and lavatories Iron is formed by molding it while it is in a molten state It is then coated with an enamel powder which contains pigments to provide fixture color and is fired at extremely high temperatures This melts and fuses the enamel into a glass-like coating KOHLER Cast Iron will retain its beauty and durability for 50 years or more, making it truly a "once for a lifetime" purchase
- cast iron
- A cast-iron guarantee or alibi is one that is absolutely certain to be effective and will not fail you. They would have to offer cast-iron guarantees to invest in long-term projects. A hard, brittle, nonmalleable iron-carbon alloy, cast into shape, containing 2 to 4.5 percent carbon, 0.5 to 3 percent silicon, and lesser amounts of sulfur, manganese, and phosphorus. a type of iron that is hard, breaks easily, and is shaped in a mould. Alloy of iron that contains 2-4% carbon, along with silicon, manganese, and impurities. It is made by reducing iron ore in a blast furnace (cast iron is chemically the same as blast-furnace iron) and casting the liquid iron into ingots called pigs. Pig iron is remelted, along with scrap and alloying elements, in cupola furnaces and recast into molds for a variety of products. In the 18th-19th centuries, cast iron was a cheaper engineering material than wrought iron (not requiring intensive refining and hammering). It is more brittle and lacks tensile strength. Its compressive (load-bearing) strength made it the first important structural metal. In the 20th century, steel replaced it as a construction material, but cast iron still has industrial applications in automobile engine blocks, agricultural and machine parts, pipes, hollowware, stoves, and furnaces. Most cast iron is either so-called gray iron or white iron, the colours shown by fracture; gray iron contains more silicon and is less hard and more machinable than white iron. Both are brittle, but malleable cast iron (produced by prolonged heat-treating), first made in 18th-century France, was developed into an industrial product in the U.S. Cast iron that is ductile as cast was invented in 1948. The latter now constitutes a major family of metals, widely used for gears, dies, automobile crankshafts, and many other machine parts
- cast iron
- (See Pig Iron)
- cast iron
- A type of iron, mass-produced in the nineteenth century, created by pouring molten iron into a mold; used for ornament, garden furniture, and building parts
- cast iron
- relatively pure iron, smelted from iron ore, containing 1 8 to 4 5% free carbon and cast to shape
- cast off
- Release ropes prior to departure
- cast off
- To unfasten all lines in preparation for departure
- cast off
- If you are on a boat and you cast off, you untie the rope that is keeping the boat in a fixed position. He cast off, heading out to the bay
- cast off
- A finishing technique used on threads using a half-hitch knot [Rees, 1813][Devlin, 1840]
- cast off
- Leading dancer goes down the set and returns around the outside of the line Alternately, all dancers turn outwards at the top of the set and return down the outside of the line
- cast off
- a typographic calculation to work out the space copy will take
- cast off
- get rid of; something that has been gotten rid of
- cast off
- To let go
- cast off
- To untie or loose a rope or line
- cast off
- The releasing of the dog by the handler in the field
- cast off
- a calculation determining how much space copy will take up when typeset
- cast off
- to untie the mooring line (larguer)
- cast off
- Prior to this movement, couples will have danced side-by-side across the set To cast off, partners separate, the gents moving anti-clockwise and the ladies clockwise around the set to meet again in the place opposite that from which they cast off
- cast off
- make the last row of stitches when knitting
- cast off
- 1 To let go a line, especially mooring or docking lines; 2 To remove the turns of a line from a cleat; 3 To untie a knot
- cast off
- If you cast off something, you get rid of it because it is no longer necessary or useful to you, or because it is harmful to you. The essay exhorts women to cast off their servitude to husbands and priests
- cast off
- get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- cast on
- make the first row of stitches when knitting
- cast out
- throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
- cast out
- {f} throw away, cast away; drive out compellingly, expel from a group or a community
- cast out
- expel from a community or group
- caste
- Clan society is rigidly divided into five caste: Warrior, Scientist, Merchant, Technician and Laborer Each caste has many subcastes, which are based on specialties within a professional field The Warrior Caste is based on a systematic eugenics program that uses the genes of prestigious successful current and past warriors to produce new members of the caste (See Sibko) These products of genetic engineering are known as Trueborns Other castes maintain a quality gene pool by strategic marriages within each caste
- caste
- (Cast): within a colony, any set of individuals having both a distinct form and specialized behaviors
- caste
- Clan society is rigidly divided into five castes: warrior, scientist, merchant, technician, and laborer Each caste has many subcastes, which are based on specialties within a professional field The warrior caste is based on a systematic eugenics program that uses the genes of prestigious, successful current and past warriors to produce new members of the caste (see Sibko) These products of genetic engineering are known as trueborns Other castes maintain a quality gene pool by strategic marriages within each caste
- caste
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies
- caste
- Caste is the system of dividing people in a society into different social classes. The caste system shapes nearly every facet of Indian life. Any of the ranked, hereditary, endogamous (see exogamy and endogamy) occupational groups that constitute traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among Hindus in India. There caste is rooted in antiquity and specifies the rules and restrictions governing social intercourse and activity. Each caste has its own customs that restrict the occupations and dietary habits of its members and their social contact with other castes. There are about 3,000 castes, or jatis (broadly, "form of existence fixed by birth"), and more than 25,000 subcastes in India. They are traditionally grouped into four major classes, or varnas ("colours"). At the top are the Brahmans, followed by the Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shudras. Those with the most defiling jobs (such as those who dispose of body emissions and dead animals) are ranked beneath the Shudras. Considered untouchable, they were simply dubbed as "the fifth" (panchama) category. Although a great many spheres of life in modern India are little influenced by caste, most marriages are nevertheless arranged within the caste. This is in part because most people live in rural communities and because the arrangement of marriages is a family activity carried out through existing networks of kinship and caste. In biology, a subset of individuals within a colony of social animals (chiefly ants, bees, termites, and wasps) that has a specialized function and is distinguished from other subsets by morphological and anatomical differences. Typical insect castes are the queen (the female responsible for reproduction), workers (the usually sterile female caretakers of the queen, eggs, and larvae), soldiers (defenders of the colony; also sterile females), and sometimes drones (short-lived males). The differentiation of larvae into various castes is often determined by diet, though hormonal and environmental factors can also play a role
- caste
- the systemic delineation of social class in Indian society It consists fundamentally of four levels: seers (priests, teachers), administrators (military leaders, business owners), producers (skilled craftspersons), and servants (unskilled laborers) Historically, there have and do exist subcasts below even the lowest of these It is difficult if not impossible to reconcile this social reality with a political system in which all citizens supposedly have basic constitutional rights accorded to them From a religious standpoint, caste is irrevocably tied to Karma Recent efforts at social/religious reform are, as yet, ineffective and have in some cases resulted in violence between castes
- caste
- A system of socioeconomic stratification in which strata are closed and a person’s membership is determined at birth
- caste
- System that divides the Indian people into different groups
- caste
- social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"
- caste
- Position held in social insect (e g some wasps and ants) hierarchy, i e Queen, Soldier, Worker, Male
- caste
- One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism
- caste
- a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station
- caste
- a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
- caste
- Although only four castes, Brahmin (scholar), kshatriya (warrior, protector), vaisya (business, agriculture), and sudra (service, unskilled labor) mentioned frequently, there are numerous other castes, as kamma, naidu, etc Caste system refers to geneology, and as such, individuals are proud of their origins, irrespective of the positioning of that particular caste in the larger context Caste system is a dominant feature of Hinduism, and the Hindus comprise 80% of the population In the case of the other 20%, caste system is irrelevant
- caste
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves
- caste
- A caste is one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society. Most of the upper castes worship the Goddess Kali
- caste
- {i} one of the four classes into which Hindu society is separated; class, station, social position; status
- caste
- n a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth : social position or status
- caste
- (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
- caste
- The Clans are divided into five castes: warrior, scientist, merchant, technician and laborer, in descending order of influence Each has many subcastes based on specialized skills The warrior caste is largely the product of the artificial breeding program; those candidates who fail their Trial of Position are assigned to the scientist or technician caste, giving those castes as significant concentration of trueborn members Most of the civilian castes are made up of the results of scientist-decreed arranged marriages within the castes The children of all castes undergo intensive scrutiny during their schooling to determine the caste for which they are best suited, though most end up in the same caste as their parents Thsi process allows children born to members of civilian castes to enter training to become warriors, though they belong to the less-prestigious ranks of the freeborn
- caste
- Clan society is rigidly divided into five castes: warrior, scientist, merchant, technician, and labourer Each caste has many subcastes, which are based on specialties within a professional field The warrior caste is based on a systematic eugenics program that uses the genes of prestigious, successful current and past warriors to produce new warriors of the caste (see sibko) These products of genetic engineering are known as Trueborns Other castes maintain a quality gene pool by strategic marriages within each caste
- caste
- jati
- casting
- The forming of metal parts by pouring molten metal or other material into a mould This is the cheapest way of making large quantities of parts that are of shapes that cannot be produced by stamping The parts are not generally as stong as those that can be made by forging, and parts made in a re-usable mould cannot be of as complicated shape as is possible with CNC machining from billets, because some shapes cannot be removed from a mould without breaking it An exotic form of casting, called investment casting or "lost wax" casting permits casting of complicated shapes by using single-use plaster moulds that can be broken apart to free the cast part from the mould This is an expensive process used mainly for high quality lugs and fork crowns
- casting
- Metal object obtained by pouring molten metal into a mold; also the act of pouring metal
- casting
- Seldom-used form of making wet process porcelain insulators where a difficult shape is desired Thick clay slip is poured into a plaster mold The plaster mold absorbs the excess water leaving a semi-dry clay body
- casting
- the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting
- casting
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops
- casting
- the act of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc
- casting
- A method of reproducing in quantity by using liquid clay & molds
- casting
- The act of viewing (and often converting) the information contained in a variable of one type as if that information was of another type
- casting
- The warping of a board
- casting
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
- casting
- The forming of molten metal into a particular shape by pouring the molten material into a precisely shaped mold or die There are several casting processes used in making iron and steel shapes (green sand, dry sand, shell mold, core mold, permanent mold, ceramic mold, expandable pattern, centrifugal, continuous and die casting) with the die casting process the most popular method of casting non-ferrous metals (primarily zinc, aluminum, and magnesium and less often copper, tin, and lead)
- casting
- The process of forming molten metal into a particular shape by pouring it into a mold and letting it harden
- casting
- A casting is an object or piece of machinery which has been made by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a container, so that when it hardens it has the required shape. see also cast = cast. Pouring of molten metal into a mold, where it solidifies into the shape of the mold. The process was well established in the Bronze Age, when it was used to form bronze pieces now found in museums. It is particularly valuable for the economical production of complex shapes, ranging from mass-produced parts for automobiles to one-of-a-kind production of statues, jewelry, or massive machinery. Most steel and iron castings (see cast iron) are poured into silica sand. For metals of lower melting point, such as aluminum or zinc, molds can be made of another metal or of sand. See also die casting, founding, investment casting, lost-wax casting, patternmaking. die casting investment casting lost wax casting
- casting
- The method of forming metal objects by pouring molten metal into a mold and allowing in to harden
- casting
- The process by which a liquid or plastic substance is formed into a solid mass by pouring the material into a mold and letting it cool to harden Usually refers to molten metals
- casting
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- casting
- the process of making reproductions from a master model; also the unpainted lighthouse from the mold
- casting
- Pouring molten metal into a mold to create a three-dimensional object
- casting
- - A method of shaping an object by melting the metal and pouring it into a specially prepared mold On cooling, the metal retains the shape of the mold
- casting
- Explicit conversion from one data type to another
- casting
- Generic term referring to a process by which a complex shape is formed by pouring a fluid material into a shaped mold
- casting
- The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold
- casting
- The process of making an art object by pouring liquid material into a mold When the material has hardened, the mold is removed A primary type of casting is the lost wax process
- casting
- The process of pouring molten glass into a mold
- casting
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- casting
- The mapping of an internal data type to an external data type or vice versa Casting allows a data type to be used as some other type as long as such a mapping exists See internal and external data types
- casting
- a manufacturing process using a mold
- casting
- the act of pouring slip into a mold
- casting
- That which is cast in a mold; esp
- casting
- a process in which slip, or liquid clay, is poured into a mold and then allowed to set The result is a piece of clayware duplicating the shape of the mold
- casting
- A product that has been fabricated by pouring molten metal into an engineered mold and permitted to solidify in this configuration Titanium castings have been successfully marketed to a broad spectrum of applications but because of titanium's reactive properties, the casting of titanium remains a complex process
- casting
- The formation of objects by pouring molten metal into molds
- casting
- The forming of metal objects by pouring molten metal into moulds
- casting
- The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc
- casting
- object formed by a mold
- casting
- {i} throwing; act of casting in a mold, shaping; act of choosing actors for a movie or play
- casting
- A process that involves pouring liquid material such as molten metal, clay, wax, or plaster into a mold When the liquid hardens, the mold is removed, leaving a form in the shape of the mold
- casting
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- casting
- The generic name for a wide variety of techniques used to form glass in a mold
- casting
- The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing