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单词 cast
释义

cast

See also: Cast, čast, část, časť, çast, and cast.

English

Etymology

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.

Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.

The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: käst, IPA(key): /kɑːst/
  • (Northern England): enPR: kăst, IPA(key): /kast/
  • (General American): enPR: kăst, IPA(key): /kæst/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːst, -æst
  • Homophones: caste, karst (in some non-rhotic accents)

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

A child with cast legs after surgery (14).
  1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
    1. (now somewhat literary) To throw. [from 13th c.]
      • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
        Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre […].
      • 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], page 262:
        The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow […].
    2. To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. [from 14th c.]
      • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew iiij]:
        As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers) […].
    3. To throw down or aside. [from 15th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
        So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 6:30:
        it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
      • 1930, "Sidar the Madman", Time, 19 Dec.:
        Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:
        Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
    4. (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15th c.]
    5. (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes). [from 14th c.]
      • 1822, "Life of Donald McBane", Blackwood's Magazine, vol.12, p.745:
        when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons […].
      • 2002, Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian, 2 March:
        You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
    6. (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
    7. (obsolete) To vomit.
      • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, OCLC 316392309, Act I:
        These verses […] make me ready to cast.
    8. (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 19:48:
        Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
      • 1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford‎, volume 1, page 170:
        Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
    9. (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
      • 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
        This […] casts a sulphurous smell.
      • 1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History
        This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness
  2. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). [from 13th c.]
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
    • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Pride and Prejudice, volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:
      She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement […].
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
  3. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. [from 14th c.]
    • c. 1589–1590, Christopher Marlo[we], Tho[mas] Heywood, editor, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Ievv of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, OCLC 1121318438, Act I, [scene iii]:
      To what this ten years' tribute will amount,
      That we have cast, but cannot compass it
      By reason of the wars, that robb'd our store
    • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.
    • 1719 April 25​, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, OCLC 838630407:
      I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.
  4. (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
    1. (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14th c.]
      • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:
        , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:
        he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, 2012, p.332:
        John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.
      • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:
        He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
    2. (obsolete) To plan, intend. [14th–19th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
        I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
      • 1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus
        The cloister […] had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
    3. (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance). [from 18th c.]
      The director cast the part carefully.
    4. (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
      The director cast John Smith as King Lear.
    5. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
      to cast about for reasons
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 1:29:
        She […] cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
    6. (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
      • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
        The government I cast upon my brother.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 4:22:
        Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
    7. (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
      to be cast in damages
      • 1822, John Galt, The Provost
        She was cast to be hanged.
      • 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], OCLC 1114833197:
        Were the case referred to any competent judge, […] they would inevitably be cast.
    8. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
      a casting voice
      • 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored
        How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
  5. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
      Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.
  6. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
    • 1950, "A Global View", Time, 24 April:
      The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
    • 1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea:
      A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
    • 1972, Ian Anderson (lyrics), “Thick As A Brick”, performed by Jethro Tull:
      The Poet and the Painter
      Casting shadows on the water
      As the sun plays on the infantry
      Returning from the sea.
  7. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. [from 15th c.]
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
      being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [translating avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter V, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203, 1st book, page 20:
      The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.
  8. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15th c.]
    • 1923, "Rodin's Death", Time, 24 March:
      One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.
    • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
      The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out.
    1. (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
  9. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). [from 16th c.]
    • c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery
      Stuff is said to cast or warp when […] it alters its flatness or straightness.
  10. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18th c.]
  11. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). [from 19th c.]
  12. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. [from 20th c.]
    Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
  13. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18th c.]
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:
      He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.
  14. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  15. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
  16. (media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
    The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cast
infinitive(to) cast
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular cast cast
2nd-person singular cast, castest† cast, castest†
3rd-person singular casts, casteth† cast
plural cast
subjunctive cast cast
imperative cast —
participles casting cast

†Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

  • audiocast
  • broadcast
  • castable
  • cast about
  • cast accounts
  • cast a chill
  • cast adrift
  • cast anchor
  • cast a pall
  • cast around
  • cast a shadow
  • cast aside
  • cast aspersions
  • cast away
  • cast down
  • caster
  • cast in concrete
  • casting
  • casting call
  • casting couch
  • casting director
  • cast in one's lot with
  • cast iron
  • cast-iron
  • cast light on
  • cast-off
  • cast off
  • cast oil on troubled waters
  • cast on
  • cast one's lot with
  • cast one's net far and wide
  • cast one's net wide
  • cast one's net wider
  • cast one's vote
  • cast out
  • cast out nines
  • cast pearls before swine
  • cast someone's water
  • cast something in someone's teeth
  • cast the first stone
  • cast up
  • cast up one's accounts
  • continuous casting
  • cross-cast
  • die-cast
  • downcast
  • fan cast
  • let he who is without sin cast the first stone
  • let him that is without sin cast the first stone
  • let him who is without sin cast the first stone
  • ne'er cast a clout til May be out
  • newcast
  • offcast
  • offcast
  • old sins cast long shadows
  • podcast
  • sand-cast
  • sidecast
  • surfcast
  • the die is cast
  • upcast
  • videocast
  • vodcast

Translations

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Noun

cast (plural casts)

  1. An act of throwing.
  2. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
      I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
  3. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
      a cast of scatter'd dust
  4. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
    The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
  5. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
    He’s in the cast of Oliver.
    The cast was praised for a fine performance.
  6. The casting procedure.
    The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
  7. An object made in a mould.
    The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
  8. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
    The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
  9. The mould used to make cast objects.
    A plaster cast was made from his face.
  10. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]
    • 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin 2013, p. 395:
      Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […] .
  11. A squint.
    • 1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968:
      The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 7:
      Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.
  12. Visual appearance.
    Her features had a delicate cast to them.
    • 2004, Betsy Brill, Photojournalism: The Professional's Approach, page 240:
      Using a tungsten-balanced film outdoors results in a blue cast to the photo.
    • 2007, Lindsay Armstrong, The Australian's Housekeeper Bride, page 78:
      He stared down at his champagne glass with narrowed eyes and a hard cast to his mouth.
  13. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
    a cast of mind, a mental tendency.
    • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, p. 40:
      The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.
    • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., OCLC 55045234, pages 159–178 and 287:
      Young Wilcox’s rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, was of a fantastically poetic cast which must have typified his whole conversation, and which I have since found highly ​characteristic of him.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:
      I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
  14. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
  15. A group of crabs.

Derived terms

  • after-cast
  • cast fossil
  • castless
  • cast net
  • cast steel
  • fan cast
  • last cast
  • offcast
  • open-cast
  • plaster cast
  • red blood cell cast
  • renal cast
  • sidecast
  • sulfur cast
  • sulphur cast
  • surfcast
  • urinary cast
  • worm cast

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Adjective

cast (not comparable)

  1. Of a horse: Having lain down in a position from which it cannot rise on its own, because its legs are too close to a wall, fence or other obstacle.

Further reading

  • cast at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • cast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

  • ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cats, scat

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin castus, likely borrowed.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈkast/

Adjective

cast (feminine casta, masculine plural casts or castos, feminine plural castes)

  1. chaste
  • castedat

Further reading

  • “cast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɑːst]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: cast

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cast.

Noun

cast m (plural casts, diminutive castje n)

  1. cast (people performing a movie or play)
Synonyms
  • rolbezetting
  • rolverdeling
  • casten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cast

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of casten
  2. imperative of casten

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkast/
  • Rhymes: -ast
  • Hyphenation: càst

Noun

cast m (invariable)

  1. cast (group of actors performing together)

Manx

Adjective

cast

  1. contorted, curly, curved
  2. complex, intricate, many-sided
  3. ticklish

Derived terms

  • castid
  • castys
  • neuchast
  • yl-chast

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
castchastgast
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kast/

Adjective

cast m or n (feminine singular castă, masculine plural caști, feminine and neuter plural caste)

  1. chaste, clean, pure

Declension
Declension of cast
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite cast castă caști caste
definite castul casta caștii castele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite cast caste caști caste
definite castului castei caștilor castelor

Synonyms

  • pur

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkast/ [ˈkast̪]
  • Rhymes: -ast
  • Syllabification: cast

Noun

cast m (plural casts)

  1. cast (group of actors)
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