What is cast?

More definitions of "cast":

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

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

• (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

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

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

“For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate
hence-forward,
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold yourselves
from us,
We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
We fathom you not—we love you—there is perfection in you also,
You furnish your parts, toward eternity,
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)