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CASTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("casting" is a kind of...):
choice; option; pick; selection (the act of choosing or selecting)
Derivation:
cast (assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
Synonyms:
cast; casting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("casting" is a kind of...):
fishing; sportfishing (the act of someone who fishes as a diversion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "casting"):
bait casting (the single-handed rod casting of a relatively heavy (artificial) bait)
fly casting (casting an artificial fly as a lure)
overcast (a cast that falls beyond the intended spot)
surf casting; surf fishing (casting (artificial) bait far out into the ocean (up to 200 yards) with the waves breaking around you)
Derivation:
cast (throw forcefully)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of creating something by casting it in a mold
Synonyms:
casting; molding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("casting" is a kind of...):
creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)
Derivation:
cast (form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Object formed by a mold
Synonyms:
cast; casting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("casting" is a kind of...):
copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "casting"):
death mask (a cast taken from the face of a dead person)
block; cylinder block; engine block (a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine)
life mask (a cast taken from the face of a living person)
Derivation:
cast (form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb cast
Context examples:
The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core.
(Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star, NASA)
“Come,” cried the inspector, laughing; “it’s a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do you give your casting vote to?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The gas makes a kind of eclipse between Earth and the accretion disk, casting lines onto the disk’s spectrum of radiation.
(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
To belch, the casting of upwind from the stomach.
(Eructation, NCI Thesaurus)
He made no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for he stood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face, smoking his pipe, and casting an occasional glance at the message.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Thomas had been a good deal surprised to find candles burning in his room; and on casting his eye round it, to see other symptoms of recent habitation and a general air of confusion in the furniture.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Uranus, the planet of genius and innovation, has recently settled into your third house of communication, which covers all the disciplines associated with the communication arts, namely writing, editing, speaking, coding, pod casting, translating, and researching, so now and in years to come, you can spin a talent in one of these areas into gold.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I have seen, he said, the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He was silent for a minute, casting about for the least vainglorious way in which to express himself.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
