What is cast?

More definitions of "cast":

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

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

• (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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

“I will not cast away my physic but on those that are sick.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

“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)