Definition von (cast) im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- after-cast
- a cast made from a mould taken from an already completed sculpture. The after-cast is often smaller and less detailed than the original
- 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
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text
Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
- 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
- Visual appearance
Her features had a delicate cast to them.
- 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
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water
- cast
- To assign a role in a play or performance
The director cast the part carefully.
- 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
- A squint
- 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
- die-cast
- To make an object by pouring a liquid or molten material into a reusable mold or die in which the material hardens
- ne'er cast a clout til May be out
- Advice not to change from winter clothes to summer clothes until June, as there is often a sudden cold snap in May
- plaster cast
- A copy of a piece of art or other object cast in plaster
The police got a plaster cast of the suspect's footprint.
- plaster cast
- A cast made of a stiff material (often plaster of Paris and gauze) in order to immobilize a broken bone for the period of healing
- red blood cell cast
- A matrix of decomposing red blood cells found in the urine as a symptom of glomerular disease
- sulfur cast
- a cast made by pouring prill sulfur into a depression; used forensically to take casts of prints in snow
- sulphur cast
- Alternative spelling of sulfur cast
- the die is cast
- The future is determined; there are no more options; events will proceed in an irreversible manner; the point of no return has been passed
- cast a pall over
- (Ev ile ilgili) Spoil something
- 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
- be cast in the same mold
- (deyim) Bearing a close resemblance, as in All his detective stories are cast in the same mold. This term uses the verb to cast in the sense of forming an object by running molten metal into a mold. [Late 1500s]
- 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 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
- die-cast
- (Metal İşleme) (adjective) (of a metal object) formed by pouring molten metal into a reusable mould
