Definition of cast to in English English dictionary
- cast
- To plan, intend (to do something)
I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- An object made in a mould
The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
- cast
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote)
- cast
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew
He’s in the cast of Oliver.
- cast
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones
The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- An act of throwing
- cast
- 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) .
- cast
- 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
- cast
- To throw
The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow .
- cast
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.)
- cast
- Specifically, to throw down or aside
Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
- cast
- The mould used to make cast objects
A plaster cast was made of his face.
- cast
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction
A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
- cast
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat
- cast
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm
The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.''.
- cast
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast
- cast
- The casting procedure
The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- 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 .
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance
- cast
- A group of crabs
- cast
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird
- cast
- 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.
- cast
- 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
- cast
- {v} to throw, sling, shed, contrive, form, grow crooked, overcome
- cast
- {n} a throw, motion, squint, turn, form, shade
- cast
- To direct or turn, as the eyes
- cast
- To lose the hair or fur of the coat, usually in spring
- cast
- A cast is the same as a plaster cast. see also casting
- cast
- That which is formed in a mild; esp
- cast
- A notation used to express the conversion of one type to another It can be expressed using either functional notation or cast notation
- cast
- choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"
- cast
- (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
- cast
- The act of casting or throwing; a throw
- cast
- 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
- cast
- (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
- cast
- Visual appearance
- cast
- To dismiss; to discard; to cashier
- cast
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text
- cast
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water
- cast
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"
- cast
- The thing thrown
- cast
- {f} throw; project; form, shape; mold; choose actors (for a play, movie, etc.)
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- 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
- cast
- formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
- cast
- bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
- cast
- To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose
- cast
- To receive form or shape in a mold
- cast
- 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
- cast
- a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc
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- 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
- cast
- To throw something down or toss something aside
- cast
- the act of throwing dice
- cast
- assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?"
- cast
- To make by pouring into a mould
- cast
- of Cast, for Casteth
- cast
- To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel
- cast
- 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
- cast
- A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture
- cast
- To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages
- cast
- - 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
- cast
- Also coerce Convert a variable from one type to another
- cast
- To throw out or emit; to exhale
- cast
- form by pouring (e g , wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture"
- cast
- The collective group of people performing a play or production together
- cast
- A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift
- cast
- CAST is a symmetric key block cipher, or to be more precise, a family of block ciphers
- cast
- To produce shapes by pouring fluid clay into moulds The 'negative' moulds are usually of plaster of Paris, and made from a 'positive' so that when they wear out, new ones can be made Example
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- Sometimes you can convert an expression from one type to another by casting For example, the assignment statement int i = (int) x + 0 5; adds 0 5 to the value of the variable x and then casts the resulting value (which is a double) to be an integer
- cast
- To bring forth prematurely; to slink
- cast
- get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- cast
- Juan Collar explains that this is "a totally discombobulated acronym meaning 'CERN Axion Solar Telescope' The original was the much more melodious SATAN for 'Solar Axion Telescopic ANtenna' which everyone loved and was approved as a CERN experiment Hence the cute logo Reactionary forces subsequently took control: the collaboration momentarily considered switching to HELMS (HELioscopic Magnetic Search) to leave no doubt that they were really, truly, pulling for the dark side For what CAST is about, see axion or http: //axnd02 cern ch/CAST/
- cast
- To throw forcefully
- cast
- To stereotype or electrotype
- cast
- An unwanted tinge or shade of color present in an image
- cast
- the act of throwing dice object formed by a mold bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal the actors in a play the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"
- cast
- Clubhead manufacturing process that involves making the head by heating steel until it is liquefied and then poured into a pre-formed mold known as a "cast" Once cooled, the cast is removed and the club head treated to it's desired finish
- cast
- to cast aspersions: see aspersions the die is cast: see die to cast your mind back: see mind to cast your net wider: see net
- cast
- Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance
- cast
- If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there. The moon cast a bright light over the yard They flew in over the beach, casting a huge shadow
- cast
- To cast an actor in a play or film means to choose them to act a particular role in it. The world premiere of Harold Pinter's new play casts Ian Holm in the lead role He was cast as a college professor He had no trouble casting the movie. + casting cast·ing the casting director of Ealing film studios
- cast
- To cast something or someone somewhere means to throw them there. Any true lover casting a pin into the fountain and gazing into it will see his or her future partner John had Maude and her son cast into a dungeon
- cast
- To set a bone in a cast
- cast
- A casing that immobilizes parts of the body that have been damaged, allowing them to heal undisturbed It's usually made of a hardening material, such as plaster of Paris or fiberglass
- cast
- The act of imparting energy to a fly rod in such a way that the fly line and leader project a fly to a target some distance away
- cast
- Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp
- cast
- a violent throw
- cast
- To assign a role in a play or performance
- cast
- v To "cast the Circle" is to define the boundaries of the sacred space, usually a circle in which a ritual is about to take place See Circle, Cutting the Circle, Opening the Circle
- cast
- To calculate; to compute
- cast
- The act of casting in a mold
- cast
- deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"
- cast
- A bows cast is its capacity to propel an arrow; the better the cast the faster the arrow and the flatter its trajectory
- cast
- The group of people that actually appear on the film participating in the story as guided by the director Usually broken down into two groups, talent with speaking roles, and background players or "extras"
- cast
- the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features"
- cast
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- cast
- throw forcefully
- cast
- The assignment of parts in a play to the actors
- cast
- wax or hot metal into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture"
- cast
- To twist or warp
- cast
- 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"
- cast
- To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope
- cast
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- cast
- A directed throw; in strip-mining, the overburden is cast from the coal to the previously mined area
- cast
- A stoke, touch, or trick
- cast
- A squint
- cast
- Contrivance; plot, design
- cast
- To impose; to bestow; to rest
- cast
- 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"
- cast
- To cast an object means to make it by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a specially shaped container and leaving it there until it becomes hard. sculptures cast in bronze
- cast
- The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown
- cast
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons
- cast
- To vomit
- cast
- To form into a particular shape by pouring fluid matter into a mold and allowing it to harden, such as making a picture frame ornament
- cast
- A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade
- cast
- form by pouring e
- cast
- 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"
- cast
- To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh
- cast
- A small mass of earth excreted by a worm
- cast
- To cast someone in a particular way or as a particular thing means to describe them in that way or suggest they are that thing. Democrats have been worried about being cast as the party of the poor Holland would never dare cast himself as a virtuoso pianist
- cast
- The form cast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle
- cast
- the actors in a play
- cast
- To throw up, as a mound, or rampart
- cast
- A cast is a model that has been made by pouring a liquid such as plaster or hot metal onto something or into something, so that when it hardens it has the same shape as that thing. An orthodontist took a cast of the inside of Billy's mouth
- cast
- To throw a fishing line or net into the water
- cast
- To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook
- cast
- (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold
- cast
- A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint
- cast
- To throw down, as in wrestling
- cast
- 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
- cast
- The mould used to make cast objects; as, a plaster cast
- cast
- To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part
- cast
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail
- cast
- 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"
- cast
- To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot
- cast
- A molded replica made by a process whereby plaster, wax, clay, or metal is poured in liquid form into a mold When the material has hardened the mold is removed, leaving a replica of the original from which the mold was taken
- cast
- object formed by a mold
- cast
- wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" 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" deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot" assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?" (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold
- cast
- A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold
- cast
- In a programming language, to translate a variable of one data type into another data type For example, the letter A can be cast as an integer whose decimal value is 65 Casting can be done explicitly in the program's code or by inference
- cast
- To contrive; to plan
- cast
- To assign a value of one type to a variable of another type An instance of a class can be cast to an instance of another class if the latter is a subclass of the former or if an interface implements the former
- cast
- 3d pres
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- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice
- cast
- A film manufactured by coating a liquid, plastic resin onto a moving belt or drum
- cast
- a casting
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- If you cast your eyes or cast a look in a particular direction, you look quickly in that direction. He cast a stern glance at the two men I cast my eyes down briefly The maid, casting black looks, hurried out
- cast
- To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject
- cast
- {i} throw; team of actors; plaster cast which supports broken bones; squint (of the eye)
- cast
- An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern
- cast
- To warp; to become twisted out of shape
- cast
- A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand
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- A replica produced by filling a mold with a casting compound, such as plaster or plastic, and letting it harden inside the impression, taking on the shape and surface details of the original specimen