What is cast?

More definitions of "cast":

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

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

• (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

“Cassius is aweary of the world:
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a notebook, learned and conned by rote
To cast into my teeth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)