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Cast in English
- cast⇄adj. 1. made by casting.
2. having all the parts allotted in a play or motion picture. - cast⇄cast, verb, cast,casting,noun, adjective.
- cast⇄expr. cast about (or around),
a. to search or look (for); look around.
Ex. The company cast around for a long time until it found a site for its new factory. In 1890, the government, casting about for a replacement for Castle Garden, ... set - cast⇄expr. cast aside,
a. to throw or put aside.
Ex. to cast aside a stone in the road.
b. to throw aside from use; discard; dismiss.
Ex. to cast aside an old hat. - cast⇄expr. cast away,
a. (Figurative.) to abandon.
Ex. He cast away the project as useless. Hope is not wholly to be cast away (Samuel Johnson).
b. to shipwreck.
Ex. The small Mexican brig which had been cast away in a southeaster, . - cast⇄expr. cast back,
a. to throw the memory back; refer to something past.
Ex. Grandfather could cast back and recall the years before radio and television existed.
b. to return toward some ancestral type or character.
Ex. I think t - cast⇄expr. cast down,
a. to turn downward; lower.
Ex. His head was cast down in shame. Every eye was cast down before him (Samuel Johnson).
b. to make sad or discouraged.
Ex. He was cast down by the sad news. - cast⇄expr. cast in, to throw into the bargain.
Ex. 'Twere worth both Testaments, and cast in the Creed (John Dryden). - cast⇄expr. cast loose,
a. to unfasten; separate.
Ex. The captain ordered the boat to be cast loose (Archibald Duncan).
b. (Figurative.) to set adrift; abandon.
Ex. an orphan cast loose on a sea of troubles. - cast⇄expr. cast off,
a. to let loose; set free; untie.
Ex. to cast off a boat from its moorings. (Figurative.) He cast off the last ties that held him to home.
b. (Figurative.) to abandon or discard.
Ex. He cast off his old friends a - cast⇄expr. cast on, to make the first row of stitches on the needles in knitting.
Ex. Will you cast on a stocking for me? Cast on 83 stitches (Fancy Workbasket). - cast⇄expr. cast out, to drive out forcibly; banish; expel.
Ex. His pride had cast him out of Heav'n (Milton). - cast⇄expr. cast up,
a. to turn upward; raise (the eyes or head).
Ex. His eyes ... cast up to count the peaches on the wall (George Sala).
b. to find the sum of; add up; calculate.
Ex. Did go to cast up how my cash stands (Samuel Pepy - cast⇄noun 1a. a throw.
Ex. With a cast of his hand he sent the pebble far out into the lake.
b. the distance a thing is thrown.
Ex. He was standing less than a stone's cast from the shore.
c. a stroke of fortune; chance; lot; fate. - cast⇄v.i. 1. to throw.
2. to calculate.
3. (of a sailing ship) to turn from the wind; wear.
4. (Obsolete.) to conjecture as to the future.
5. (Obsolete.) to ponder; deliberate; consider. - cast⇄v.t. 1. to throw, fling, or hurl.
Ex. to cast a stone, cast a fishing line or an anchor. The thieves were cast into prison.
2. to deposit (a ballot); give (a vote).
Ex. Voters cast their ballots for President of the United States in an