caster

See also: Caster

English

casters on a swivel chair (2)

silver caster (3), early 18th c.

Alternative forms

castor (British)

Etymology

cast +‎ -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

(UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkæstɚ/
Homophone: castor
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)

Noun

caster (plural casters)

Someone or something that casts.
- 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231:
  She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
a caster of spells
a caster of stones
a caster of bronze statuary
an online caster of video games
A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).
Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
Synonym: cruet
a set of casters
- 1860–1861, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in The Uncommercial Traveller‎:
  Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
- 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business‎:
  She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
(automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
- 2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book‎, →ISBN, page 238:
  In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.

Derived terms

figure-caster
spearcaster
surf-caster
surf caster

Translations

someone or something that casts

Bulgarian: леяр (bg) m (lejar)
Finnish: heittäjä (fi); heitin (fi); valaja (fi), valuri
Hungarian: hajító, vető (hu), öntő (hu)
Italian: lanciatore m lanciatrice f; (who spells) incantatore (it) m incantatrice f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: (thrower) kaster (no) m

wheeled assembly

Armenian: հոլովակ (hy) (holovak)
Bulgarian: колелце́ n (kolelcé)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 輪腳／轮脚 (zh) (lúnjiǎo)
Danish: hjul (da) n (office chairs), møbelhjul n
Finnish: kalustepyörä, huonekalupyörä, rullapyörä, pyörä (fi)
French: roulette (fr) f
German: Rollfuß m, Castor-Rad n, Lenkrolle f
Greek: καρούλι (el) n (karoúli)
Hungarian: görgő
Italian: montaggio su ruote m
Japanese: キャスター (kyasutā)
Polish: koło kastora n
Portuguese: rodízio (pt) m
Russian: колёсико (ru) n (koljósiko), ро́лик (ru) m (rólik)
Slovene: kolešček m
Spanish: rueda (es) f, ruedita (es) f (Latin America), ruedecita f (Spain)

shaker with perforated top

Bulgarian: со́лница (bg) f (sólnica)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 調味瓶／调味瓶 (zh) (tiáowèi píng)
Danish: strødåse c, saltbøsse (da) c (salt shaker), peberbøsse (da) c (pepper shaker)
Finnish: sirotin
German: Streuer (de) m
Hungarian: szóró (hu), sószóró (hu), sótartó (hu)
Irish: croiteoir m, ceanastar m
Italian: spargisale (it) m, saliera (it) f, pepiera f, spargipepe m
Japanese: 薬味入れ (やくみいれ, yakumiire)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bøsse m or f
Nynorsk: bøsse f, børse f
Polish: pieprzniczka (pl) f (pepper shaker), solniczka (pl) f (salt shaker)
Russian: пе́речница (ru) f (pérečnica) (pepper shaker), соло́нка (ru) f (solónka) (salt shaker)
Swedish: ströare

Verb

caster (third-person singular simple present casters, present participle castering, simple past and past participle castered)

To act as a caster

Anagrams

Cartes, Caters, Cestar, acters, carest, carets, cartes, caters, crates, creats, racest, reacts, recast, rescat, reäcts, traces

French

Etymology

From English cast.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kas.te/
Audio (file)

Verb

caster

(transitive) to cast (a spell)
(transitive, film) to cast (into a role)

Conjugation

Conjugation of caster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	caster
present participle or gerund¹	simple	castant /kas.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		casté /kas.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caste /kast/	castes /kast/	caste /kast/	castons /kas.tɔ̃/	castez /kas.te/	castent /kast/
	imperfect	castais /kas.tɛ/	castais /kas.tɛ/	castait /kas.tɛ/	castions /kas.tjɔ̃/	castiez /kas.tje/	castaient /kas.tɛ/
	past historic²	castai /kas.te/	castas /kas.ta/	casta /kas.ta/	castâmes /kas.tam/	castâtes /kas.tat/	castèrent /kas.tɛʁ/
	future	casterai /kas.tə.ʁe/	casteras /kas.tə.ʁa/	castera /kas.tə.ʁa/	casterons /kas.tə.ʁɔ̃/	casterez /kas.tə.ʁe/	casteront /kas.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	casterais /kas.tə.ʁɛ/	casterais /kas.tə.ʁɛ/	casterait /kas.tə.ʁɛ/	casterions /kas.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	casteriez /kas.tə.ʁje/	casteraient /kas.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior²	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	caste /kast/	castes /kast/	caste /kast/	castions /kas.tjɔ̃/	castiez /kas.tje/	castent /kast/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	castasse /kas.tas/	castasses /kas.tas/	castât /kas.ta/	castassions /kas.ta.sjɔ̃/	castassiez /kas.ta.sje/	castassent /kas.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	caste /kast/	—	castons /kas.tɔ̃/	castez /kas.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

précaster
recaster