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cast

/kast, kahst/US // kæst, kɑst //UK // (kɑːst) //

铸造,浇铸,铸就,浇注

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v.有主动词 verb
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    cast, cast·ing.

    • : to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
    • : to throw off or away: He cast the advertisement in the wastebasket.
    • : to direct, especially in a cursory manner: She cast her eyes down the page.
    • : to cause to fall upon something or in a certain direction; send forth: to cast a soft light; to cast a spell; to cast doubts.
    • : to draw, as in telling fortunes.
    • : Angling. to throw out:The fisherman cast his line.to fish in: He has often cast this brook.
    • : to throw down or bring to the ground: She cast herself on the sofa.
    • : to part with; lose: The horse cast a shoe.
    • : to shed or drop: The snake cast its skin.
    • : to bring forth, especially abortively.
    • : to send off, as bees do.
    • : to throw or set aside; discard or reject; dismiss: He cast the problem from his mind.
    • : to throw forth, as from within; emit or eject; vomit.
    • : to throw up, as with a shovel.
    • : to put or place, especially hastily or forcibly: to cast someone in prison.
    • : to deposit or give.
    • : to bestow; confer: to cast blessings upon someone.
    • : to make suitable or accordant; tailor: He cast his remarks to fit the occasion.
    • : Theater. to select actors for.to allot a role to.to assign an actor to.
    • : to form by pouring metal, plaster, etc., in a fluid state into a mold and letting it harden.
    • : to form into a particular shape by pouring it into a mold in a fluid state and letting it harden.
    • : to tap.
    • : to compute or calculate; add, as a column of figures.
    • : to compute or calculate astrologically; forecast.
    • : to turn or twist; warp.
    • : Nautical. to turn the head of, especially away from the wind in getting under way.
    • : Fox Hunting. to lead or direct over ground believed to have been recently traveled by a fox.
    • : Archaic. to contrive, devise, or plan.
    • : Obsolete. to ponder.
v.无主动词 verb
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    cast, cast·ing.

    • : to throw.
    • : to receive form in a mold.
    • : to calculate or add.
    • : to conjecture; forecast.
    • : to search an area for scent: The setter cast, but found no scent.
    • : to warp, as timber.
    • : Nautical. to turn, especially to get the head away from the wind; tack.
    • : to select the actors for a play, motion picture, or the like.
    • : Obsolete. to consider.to plan or scheme.
n.名词 noun
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    • : act of casting or throwing.
    • : that which is thrown.
    • : the distance to which a thing may be cast or thrown.
    • : Games. a throw of dice.the number rolled.
    • : Angling. act of throwing a line or net onto the water.a spot for casting a fishing line; a fishing place.
    • : Theater. the group of performers to whom parts are assigned; players.
    • : Hunting. a searching of an area for a scent by hounds.
    • : a stroke of fortune; fortune or lot.
    • : a ride offered on one's way; lift.
    • : the form in which something is made or written; arrangement.
    • : Metallurgy. act of casting or founding.the quantity of metal cast at one time.
    • : something formed from a material poured into a mold in a molten or liquid state; casting.
    • : an impression or mold made from something.
    • : Medicine/Medical. a rigid surgical dressing, usually made of bandage treated with plaster of Paris.
    • : outward form; appearance.
    • : sort; kind; style.
    • : tendency; inclination.
    • : a permanent twist or turn: to have a cast in one's eye.
    • : a warp.
    • : a slight tinge of some color; hue; shade: A good diamond does not have a yellowish cast.
    • : a dash or trace; a small amount.
    • : computation; calculation; addition.
    • : a conjecture; forecast.
    • : Zoology. something that is shed, ejected, or cast off or out, as molted skin, a feather, food from a bird's crop, or the coil of sand and waste passed by certain earthworms.
    • : Ornithology. pellet.
    • : Falconry. a pair of hawks put in flight together.
    • : Pathology. effused plastic matter produced in the hollow parts of various diseased organs.
    • : low-grade, irregular wool.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : lying in such a position that it is unable to return to its feet without assistance.
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    • : cast about, to look, as to find something; search; seek: We cast about for something to do during the approaching summer vacation.to scheme; plan: He cast about how he could avoid work.
    • : cast away, Also cast aside. to reject; discard.to shipwreck.to throw away; squander: He will cast away this money just as he has done in the past.
    • : cast back, to refer to something past; revert to: The composer casts back to his earlier work.
    • : cast down, to lower; humble.
    • : cast off, to discard; reject.to let go or let loose, as a vessel from a mooring.Printing.to determine the quantity of type or space that a given amount of text will occupy when set.Textiles.to make in completing a knitted fabric.to throw off from the fist to pursue game.
    • : cast on, Textiles. to set on a needle in order to form the initial stitches in knitting.
    • : cast out, to force out; expel; eject.
    • : cast up, to add up; compute.to vomit; eject.Chiefly Scot.to turn up; appear.

Phrases

  • cast about
  • cast adrift
  • cast away
  • cast doubt on
  • cast down
  • cast in one's lot
  • cast in stone
  • cast in the same mold
  • castles in the air
  • cast loose
  • cast off
  • cast on
  • cast one's lot with
  • cast out
  • cast pearls before swine
  • cast the first stone
  • die is cast

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Other works — such as Ursula von Rydingsvard’s wooden monoliths and Lynda Benglis’s waves cast in bronze — are large but not crushing.

  • I think that might cast you in a negative light or cause you to reveal some weakness or shortcoming.

  • Sia, after defending her decision to not cast an autistic actress for Ziegler’s role, promised through her since-deleted Twitter account to pull the restraint scenes and include a warning.

  • Even Pai’s technical tweaks threatened to cast a pall over the program.

  • When it came time to cast their ballots, more than 54 percent of South Dakota voters took to the polls in November in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

  • Obviously, not all the original cast can come back or even have the desire.

  • As the months passed and she began to cast the film, I became increasingly excited.

  • It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

  • He cast her as Hope, an ex-addict with an impressive pair of fake chompers—the result of years of drug abuse.

  • They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.

  • The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.

  • Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

  • Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.

  • He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.