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    [Verb]  | "cast" | \ ˈkast \


    1: to cause to move or send forth by throwing

    2: direct

    3: to put forth


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English, from Old Norse kasta; akin to Old Norse kǫs heap;

    [Verb]  | "cast about" 


    1: to look around : seek

    2: to lay plans concerning : contrive


    Origin: 1575 ;

    [Verb]  | "cast around" 


    1: cast about


    Origin: 1904 ;

    [Verb]  | "cast off" 


    1: loose

    2: unfasten

    3: to remove (a stitch) from a knitting needle in such a way as to prevent unraveling


    Origin: 1575 ;

    [Verb]  | "cast on" 


    1: to place (stitches) on a knitting needle for beginning or enlarging knitted work


    Origin: 1840 ;

    [Noun]  | "cast" 


    1: an act of casting

    2: something that happens as a result of chance

    3: a throw of dice


    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Noun]  | "cast iron" 


    1: a commercial alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon that is cast in a mold and is hard, brittle, nonmalleable, and incapable of being hammer-welded but more easily fusible than steel


    Origin: 1664 ;

    [Adjective]  | "cast down" 


    1: downcast


    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Adjective]  | "cast-iron" | \ ˈkast-ˈī(-ə)rn \


    1: made of cast iron

    2: resembling cast iron: such as

    3: capable of withstanding great strain


    Origin: 1692 ;

    [Adjective]  | "cast-off" | \ ˈkast-ˌȯf \


    1: thrown away or aside


    Origin: 1613 ;

    [Verb]  | "cast" 


    1: to throw or give off;


      * e.g., " ... spermaceti candles, made from whale oil, are known to cast an exceptionally bright light "



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    2: to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal;


      * e.g., " ... cast her eyes skyward for signs of the rescue plane "



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    3: to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form;


      * e.g., " ... carefully cast the letter of complaint as politely as possible "



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    [Verb]  | "cast (off)" 


    1: to get rid of as useless or unwanted;


      * e.g., " ... once she became rich and didn't need them anymore, she cast off all her old friends like so much junk "



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    [Verb]  | "cast (up)" 


    1: to combine (numbers) into a single sum;


      * e.g., " ... had worked as a clerk in a countinghouse, mainly casting up long columns of figures every day "



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    [Verb]  | "cast about" 


    1: as in look, reach;


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    [Verb]  | "cast about (for)" 


    1: to go in search of;


      * e.g., " ... cast about for an answer to the question of why so many people had ignored the victim's cries for help "



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    [Verb]  | "cast around (for)" 


    1: to go in search of;


      * e.g., " ... cast around for a last minute replacement for the lead actor in the movie "



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    [Noun]  | "cast" 


    1: a declaration that something will happen in the future;


      * e.g., " ... stock market analysts offered an optimistic cast for the coming year "



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    2: a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished;


      * e.g., " ... the walls had a slight yellowish cast "



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    3: an instance of looking especially briefly;


      * e.g., " ... a mischievous cast in his eye when we asked what our destination would be "



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    [Adjective]  | "cast-off" 


    [Adjective]  | "cast down" 


    1: feeling unhappiness;


      * e.g., " ... newly widowed, he was cast down at the thought of being alone once again "





    [Adjective]  | "cast-iron" 


    1: not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards;


      * e.g., " ... lost weight only after a cast-iron adherence to his diet "





    2: able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure;


      * e.g., " ... he has a cast-iron faith in his innate ability to overcome any adversity that life might throw against him "





     [ "cast" ]

    1: the virgin version for use

      * e.g.,  ... I cast the fire spell! 

     [ "cast" ]

    1: Sleep; pass out; lay in bed. Usually said after a long night of drinking, but not always.

      * e.g.,  ... Example #1: I'm about to go cast. Example #2: Wanna go upstairs and cast with me? 

     [ "cast" ]

    1: a term used by auditors when adding up tons and tons of numbers to check that they are correctly summed up by a company.

      * e.g.,  ... Casting the whole ledger has made my eyes sore and fingers numb; the best part is, it didnt add up to the final amount! 

     [ "Casting" ]

    1: When someone is acting extremely sus. Especially when referring to cheating, soft begging, emotional manipulation, and an overall lack of empathy.

      * e.g.,  ... "Bro, please stop casting." 

     [ "Casted" ]

    1: To snitch on a fam Present tense : Cast

      * e.g.,  ... My mom casted me to my dad bruv I’ll have to cast you man 

     [ "casted" ]

    1: Not a word. The correct word is "cast".

      * e.g.,  ... "As a young wizard, I frequently casted my spells onto unsuspecting Muggles." "It's cast, not casted." 

     [ "Cast" ]

    1: A cum sock that has dried out and hardened like a a cast.

      * e.g.,  ... Dude is that a cast on your floor? 

     [ "caste" ]

    1: An centuries-old but effective economic/cultural system of control in which a person who is born in a certain class is forced to live out his/her entire life in that class. Still being used by India.

      * e.g.,  ... In India, the Untouchables are the lowest of its traditional caste system. 


     [ "caste" ]

    2: What the modern Capitalism-based American economic system really is, since the citizens of the Middle, Lower, and Poverty classes are forced to spend their entire lives working for less and less money, while being tricked by the Upper and Wealthy classes into believing that their dreams will come true if they work hard enough.

     [ "caste" ]

    1: A Portuguese colonial interpretation of ancient Indian grouping by hereditary profession, called "jāti" in Hindoostani; predating the Aryan penetration of the subcontinent, but believed by White Nationalists (among others) to be a kind of primitive apartheid system introduced by the Vedic Aryans to keep those of darker skin away from them, due to conflation with the five *classes*, properly "varna", of Vedic society (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra, Chandal).

      * e.g.,  ... "Castes are systems of occupation, endogamy, social culture, social class, and political power, the assignment of individuals to places in the social hierarchy is determined by social group and cultural heritage. Although India is often now associated with the word "caste", it was first used by the Portuguese to describe inherited class status in their own European society." 

     [ "casting" ]

    1: A sexual/BDSM fetish, whereupon an individual enjoys some part of the process of putting casts on people. Some people enjoy putting the casts on others, others enjoy having the casts put on themselves, and others enjoy seeing the finished product. Some cast fetishists get very creative about which body parts and in which positions the subject gets cast.

      * e.g.,  ... Becca is into casting and last week, she had the entire bottom half of her body done. 

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