Cast
(imp. & p. p.) of Cast |
Cast
(v. t.) To send or drive by force |
Cast
(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes. |
Cast
(v. t.) To drop |
Cast
(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling. |
Cast
(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. |
Cast
(v. t.) To throw off |
Cast
(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely |
Cast
(v. t.) To throw out or emit |
Cast
(v. t.) To cause to fall |
Cast
(v. t.) To impose |
Cast
(v. t.) To dismiss |
Cast
(v. t.) To compute |
Cast
(v. t.) To contrive |
Cast
(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit |
Cast
(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale) |
Cast
(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold |
Cast
(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype. |
Cast
(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors |
Cast
(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook. |
Cast
(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. |
Cast
(v. i.) To consider |
Cast
(v. i.) To calculate |
Cast
(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold. |
Cast
(v. i.) To warp |
Cast
(v. i.) To vomit. |
Cast
() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. |
Cast
(n.) The act of casting or throwing |
Cast
(n.) The thing thrown. |
Cast
(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. |
Cast
(n.) A throw of dice |
Cast
(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected |
Cast
(n.) The act of casting in a mold. |
Cast
(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person |
Cast
(n.) That which is formed in a mild |
Cast
(n.) Form |
Cast
(n.) A tendency to any color |
Cast
(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage |
Cast
(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors. |
Cast
(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. |
Cast
(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick. |
Cast
(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye |
Cast
(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold. |
Cast
(n.) Four |
Cast
(n.) Contrivance |
Cast iron
() Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace |
Cast-iron
(a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron |
Cast-off
(a.) Cast or laid aside |
Cast steel
() See Cast steel, under Steel. |
Drag
(n.) A confection |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
hurl
cast | a violent throw |
| drag | the act of dragging (pulling with force), the drag up the hill exhausted him |
slide
glide
coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| casting cast | the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel |
puff
drag pull | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke), he took a puff on his pipe, he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly |
rut
groove | a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape, they fell into a conversational rut |
| cast roll | the act of throwing dice |
cast
casting | object formed by a mold |
cast plaster cast
plaster bandage | bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal |
chute
slide
slideway
sloping trough | sloping channel through which things can descend |
| drag | clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man), he went to the party dressed in drag, the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| main drag | the main street of a town or city |
mold
mould
cast | container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens |
pump action
slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
shoulder board
shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
| slide lantern slide | a transparency mounted in a frame, viewed with a slide projector |
| slide microscope slide | a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study |
slide playground slide
sliding board | plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide |
slide fastener
zip
zipper
zip fastener | a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab |
| slide projector | projector that projects an enlarged image of a slide onto a screen |
slide rule
slipstick | analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations, have been replaced by pocket calculators |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
| tongue and groove joint | a mortise joint made by fitting a projection on the edge of one board into a matching groove on another board |
| mark | the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember, it was in London that he made his mark, he left an indelible mark on the American theater |
form
shape cast | the visual appearance of something or someone, the delicate cast of his features |
| stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
crisscross
cross
mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
| chatter mark | a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece |
scratch
scrape
scar
mark | an indication of damage |
burn
burn mark | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) |
strawberry
strawberry mark
hemangioma simplex | a soft red birthmark |
| mark of Cain | the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature |
| drag | something tedious and boring, peeling potatoes is a drag |
groove
vallecula | (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part |
| costal groove | groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are |
| drag | something that slows or delays progress, taxation is a drag on the economy, too many laws are a drag on the use of new land |
mark grade
score | a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance), she made good marks in algebra, grade A milk, what was your score on your homework? |
| Mark Gospel According to Mark | the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament |
letter of marque
letters of marque
letter of mark and reprisal | a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
mark stigma
brand stain | a symbol of disgrace or infamy, And the Lord set a mark upon Cain--Genesis |
| mark print | a visible indication made on a surface, some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks, paw prints were everywhere |
hoofprint
hoof mark
hoof-mark | a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal |
| mark | a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation), his answer was just a punctuation mark |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |
check mark
check tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc., as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name |
diacritical mark
diacritic | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |