What is cast?

More definitions of "cast":

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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

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

• (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 act of throwing dice.
  Synonyms: roll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• (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"

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

“You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

““what has cast such a shadow upon you” “The negro.””
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“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)