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 act of throwing dice.
  Synonyms: roll

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

• (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): 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

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

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

• (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 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

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

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

• (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): 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): 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

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)

“What is the use of “good” painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)

“Who first seduc’d them to that fowl revolt?
Th’ infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d
The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)