What is cast?

More definitions of "cast":

• (verb): Formulate in a particular style or language.
  Example: "She cast her request in very polite language"
  Synonyms: frame, redact, put, couch

• (noun): The visual appearance of something or someone.
  Example: "The delicate cast of his features"
  Synonyms: form, shape

• (verb): Select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.
  Example: "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona"

• (noun): The actors in a play.
  Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae

• (noun): The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
  Example: "Pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"
  Synonyms: mold, stamp

• (verb): Choose at random.
  Example: "Cast lots"
  Synonyms: draw

• (verb): Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
  Synonyms: vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up

• (adj): (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing into a mold.

• (noun): The act of throwing dice.
  Synonyms: roll

• (verb): Deposit.
  Example: "Cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"

• (verb): Throw forcefully.
  Synonyms: hurl, hurtle

• (verb): Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
  Synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

• (noun): The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel.
  Synonyms: casting

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

• (verb): Form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold.
  Example: "Cast a bronze sculpture"
  Synonyms: mold, mould

• (verb): Get rid of.
  Synonyms: shed, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop

• (noun): A violent throw.
  Synonyms: hurl

• (verb): Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.
  Example: "Who cast this beautiful movie?"

• (verb): Put or send forth.
  Example: "Cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
  Synonyms: project, contrive, throw

• (noun): Object formed by a mold.
  Synonyms: casting

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

“Like a bad doctor who has fallen down sick you are cast down, and cannot find what sort of drugs would cure your ailment.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Shoals of corpses shall witness, mute, even to generations to come, before the eyes of men that we ought never, being mortal, to cast our sights too high.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don’t respect the natural parenting talents that each of you has, you may inadvertently cast the two of you into the skewed but complementary roles of the Expert and the Dumb Apprentice.”
—Jean Marzollo (20th century)