cast
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Is cast a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.Examples: "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[…]."; "The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow[…]."Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashliteraryphysical
2. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.Examples: "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)[…]."Synonyms: projectphysical
3. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.Examples: "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 […]"; "it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."; "Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned."Synonyms: cast down, throw downphysical
4. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.Synonyms: sloughphysical
5. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.physical
6. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.Examples: "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[…]."; "You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March."Synonyms: doffphysical
noun (English)
1. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.Examples: "I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success."
2. (art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.Examples: "He’s in the cast of Oliver."; "The cast was praised for a fine performance."
3. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.Examples: "As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […]"; "Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […]."
4. (firearms) The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.Examples: "Cast is the measurement of the central line of the gun and the stock’s butt. If the butt is tilted slightly to the left of the central line, it’s called “cast on.” If the butt is tilted slightly to the right of the central line, it’s called “cast off.”"
5. (archaic, colloquial) Assistance given by transporting a person or lightening their labour.Examples: "The superiors rode în a spring-van, and the rest in the wagon, while I walked the whole distance. None of them had the civility to give me a cast forward on either vehicle, […]"; "boatman, just give us a cast over to the other side of the water."archaiccolloquial
Definition source: Wiktionary