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单词 recast
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recastn.

Brit. /ˌriːˈkɑːst/, /ˌriːˈkast/, U.S. /riˈkæst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, cast n.
Etymology: < re- prefix + cast n. Compare earlier recast v.
1. Something (esp. a version of a text or theory) produced by recasting.
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1812 Ld. Byron Let. 30 Sept. (1973) II. 221 I..will bring a recast of the prologue with more alterations still.
1846 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 222/2 The second edition, as regards principles, is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first.
1909 L. E. Horning tr. G. Witkowski German Drama of 19th Cent. iv. 19 In Königsberg he found a couple of years of quiet, during which first of all he made his thoughtful recast of the Ampitryon legend.
1937 L. de la Vallée Poussin in G. T. Garratt Legacy of India vi. 162 The Buddha doctrine of transmigration, of the action and the reward of actions, was a recast of the parallel Hindu doctrines.
1998 A. Hilhorst in F. G. Martinez & G. P. Luttikhuizen Interpr. of Flood 58 Biblical narratives were accessible in..Latin texts, first of all the Bible translations such as the Septuagint, the Old Latin, and the Vulgate, and then the recasts.
2. The action or process of recasting something; an instance of this.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun]
reworking?1608
remodelling1785
refashioning1799
refashionment1829
remodelment1838
recast1841
réchauffage1847
reshaping1872
rejigging1884
rejiggering1920
re-profiling1962
rejig1965
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun] > product of
refashionment1829
recast1841
rework1906
makeover1925
1841 T. De Quincey Homer & Homeridae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 756/1 Popular feeling called for a diaskeué, or thorough recast.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 229 Not merely a revision, but an entire re-cast of the Statute.
1932 C. A. F. R. Davids Man. Buddhism Pref. p. viii Had it been possible for Rhys Davids..to have set about the recast of his own views..the present work had been less needed.
1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 480/3 The first was aboard the 15.30 Yarmouth service in September 1976 just before the timetable recast.
2004 J. Chen Pop. Polit. Support Urban China iii. 71 We can recast the results from table 3.1 into two-by-two tables... Table 3.3 presents the results of such a recast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

recastadj.

Brit. /ˌriːˈkɑːst/, /ˌriːˈkast/, U.S. /riˈkæst/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English recast , recast v.
Etymology: < recast, past participle of recast v.
That has been cast again (in various senses).
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [adjective]
new-dressed1653
remodelled1798
recast1816
rejigged1966
makeover1977
1816 Brit. Critic Oct. 429 We are too well aware of the dislike of an English audience to Heathen Mythology, to recommend the production even of the recast play under its present names and characters.
1884 Athenæum 5 July 7/2 The original and the recast Carolingian poems and romances.
1919 G. G. Smith B. Jonson i. 13 The author of Histriomastix (in its recast form, probably of 1599) avenged the insult in the character of Posthaste.
1950 Times 4 May 2/5 There are losses..in this recast production, but Mr. E. Martin Browne has taken care that the essential values of the play should be preserved.
1990 Mod. Railways Aug. 425/2 A growth traffic area for ScotRail is the Highland line, and a recast timetable to the Highland capital from Glasgow and Edinburgh has been introduced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

recastv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈkɑːst/, /ˌriːˈkast/, U.S. /riˈkæst/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle recast;
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, cast v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + cast v.
1. transitive. To throw or cast again. Also intransitive.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > again or back
retoss1549
to throw back1561
recast1585
reflirt1652
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection iii. 425 Scoffes and taunts are soone cast and recast without any paynes or praise.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlviii. 155 In the middest of their running-race, [they] would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iv. lxxxvii. 92 I promise thee (O King) how wee did heave Our Anchors from that shore, when I recast; With doubt of ever seeing it again, Scarce can my bridled eyes from Tears refrain.
1824 S. E. Brydges Let. 27 Aug. in Recoll. Foreign Trav. (1825) II. xxxvii. 88 I was led into my observations by recasting my eyes on Burke's two famous speeches.
1894 E. Fawcett New Nero 17 He recast a sudden look upon Fanshawe and his face drearily brightened.
1899 P. H. Wicksteed tr. Dante Paradiso ii. 21 Now thou wilt urge that the ray here is darkened rather than in other parts, because here it is recast from further back.
1937 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 5 June 6/8 The trick in casting is to drop the beetle just as close to the frog as possible... ‘If the frog does not jump for it, slowly pull it away again and recast.’
1971 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 19 May 21/1 As you cast and recast all the rods you have selected one or two are going to shake out better than the others.
2003 R. Barbagallo Wireless Game Devel. C/C++ x. 109 Simply cast a pointer to an integer and recast it back to a pointer to your data later when you retrieve the selected menu item.
2.
a. transitive. To found or cast again; esp. to form (an object made of metal, concrete, etc.) into a new shape by casting again. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > again or anew
re-edifya1425
repairc1425
new-build1480
rebuilda1525
re-erect1579
re-edificea1601
recompack1602
recompose1611
recast1625
repiece1642
reconstitute1759
restructure1932
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object) > found or cast (metal or object) again
refound1600
recast1625
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes i. x. 177 Not only they doe cast these Vessels of Iron, but after they are broken they buy them againe for to re-cast them.
1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 171/1 Afterwards to bee re-cast two severall times, onely to make it tunable with the other Bells in the Steeple.
1704 Narr. Sir G. Rooke's Late Voy. to Mediterranean 28 Brass Guns, when made by any Accident unserviceable, may be re-cast out of the same Metal.
1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. III. 83 The Weapons of their Fathers they recast In Forges.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. vi. 115 Taking their terms from the common language,..recasting them in a mould of their own.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 30 Nov. 225 They..would melt the bullion anew in order to recast it in the original mould.
1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles II. ix. 146 Recasting some articles of gold and silver.
1912 G. C. Hazelton & J. H. Benrimo Yellow Jacket ii. 53 The bell-maker cast it of pure gold and silver, but its note proved brazen... The bell-maker recast it.
1942 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 12 Feb. 5/2 (advt.) Cast iron was recast into cannon balls and grapeshot..and then salvaged and recast into teakettles and frying pans..when the war was over.
1991 Bostonia June 31/1 (advt.) And to ensure the utmost authenticity, each is made using tools and dies of classic design carefully recast from the original watch.
b. transitive. To remodel or reconstruct (a thing, esp. a policy, sentence, literary work, etc.); to present or organize in a different form or style. Also intransitive.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > fashion anew [verb (transitive)]
reforge1542
unfashion1569
to make over1582
refashion1613
remodel1660
remake1766
recast1790
new-dress1795
rework1837
rejigger1899
rejig1948
jigger1961
1790 T. Burgess Divinity of Christ 28 The advocates of free inquiry have recast the annals of Christian Antiquity.
1817 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 5) I. Pref. p. xiii I have recast and rewritten the chapters.
1820 Ld. Byron Let. 23 Apr. (1977) VII. 82 I can neither recast—nor replace.
1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 63 Buonaparte recast the art of war.
1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece IX. ii. lxxii. 255 He sent Eteonikus to Thrace for the purpose of thus recasting the governments every where.
1915 J. W. Mackail Stud. Poetry in Rice Instit. Pamph. Sept. i. 6 For the Reformation..only recast that tyranny in a new shape, ‘re-formed’ it and imposed it afresh on the human mind.
1961 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 26 313/2 They brought their data to Columbia University..where the author undertook to recast it into a sociological framework.
1992 Economist 12 Sept. 14/1 Only when the government makes its law-and-order message clear will its second message—that Germany's refugee policy must be recast—risk no misunderstanding.
c. transitive. To assign (a role or part) to a different actor; to reallocate the roles in (a play, film, etc.). Cf. cast v. 48.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > cast
cast1711
undercast1827
recast1923
type1933
type-cast1946
1923 R. W. Chambers Eris 136 I was to have had only a maid's part but Miss Cassell refused to go to the Coast and there wasn't time to recast the part.
1931 Modesto (Calif.) News-Herald 20 June 3/4 Seems to me there are more cases lately of productions being halted, stories re-written and players recast than ever before.
1962 L. Payne Too Small for his Shoes viii. 162 I'll have to recast the part and re-shoot every sequence he was in.
1981 N. J. Crisp Festival vi. 143 Should the play..justify..a possible transfer to the West End, it will..have to be recast.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 3 Mar. 91/1 Reportedly recast and reshot, Cursed still feels mushy and fussed-over, the saddest casualty being the violence.
d. transitive. To give (a person, occupation, etc.) a new or different role or image; to reinvent or re-present as something different. Also reflexive.
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1965 Washington Post 9 June a25/4 The secret police, cast as the last word in villains during the Stalin era, now have recast themselves as kindly heroes.
1979 A. Scholefield Point of Honour 80 My father was recast as a hero..saviour of lives in the face of the enemy.
1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 214 These days shopping is nobly recast as ‘sourcing’ and clever you for finding the best chilli-marinated olives.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 May viii. 3/6 The difference now is that he has a career's worth of data. And he is using it to recast himself from a pull-hitting slugger to a hitter who uses the whole park.
3. transitive. To compute over again, recalculate. Also with up. rare.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > calculate or solve [verb (transitive)] > recalculate
recalculate1611
recast1725
recompute1740
refigure1884
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xx. 339 How shall it be known, but by casting and re-casting up, telling, and teling over and over again the money?
1865 J. M. Neale Hymns Paradise 48 Now the years of their affliction In their memory they recast.
1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! ii. vii. 154 I'm inclined to see her less as a possible principal than as a possible inspiration... And that would..lead us back to recasting the odds.

Derivatives

reˈcaster n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun] > one who or that which refashions
refashioner1800
remodeller1819
recaster1841
reshaper1923
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material
metaphrast1610
lasher1611
pastoralist1619
amorist1642
travel writer1711
party writer1715
Poor Richard1757
murdermonger1785
manners-painter1807
institutionalist1817
paroemiographer1823
nautical1831
nonsense-writera1835
recaster1841
serialist1845
snobographer1848
librettist1862
palindromist1872
fragmentist1874
text-man1900
scriptwriter1911
paradoxographer1917
absurdist1929
blogger1999
weblogger1999
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 421/2 The Iliad viewed..in reference to its author,..its reformers or restorers, its re-casters or interpolators, and its critical explorers.
1903 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 18 473 The recaster, following a statement contained in the same Life of Dunstan, referred it to the missionaries of Eleutherius.
2003 Times (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Mag.) 22 He is its chronicler and the recaster of its myths; its harshest critic and most eloquent advocate.
reˈcasting n.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creating again
regenerationc1384
re-creation?a1425
new-making1495
repullulation1623
remaking1625
reproductiona1640
regermination1646
recasting1687
regenesis1833
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > bell-making > specific processes
recasting1687
1687 in T. Harwood Hist. Lichfield (1806) 68 Towards the re~casting of the bells.
1857 W. E. Gladstone Oxf. Ess. 27 All the recasting processes which have yet been tried.
1927 Mod. Philol. 25 44 Thomas Howell treated the story of Troilus twice, though the second piece is only a recasting of the first.
1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 25 Jan. 46/1 How Hillary Clinton plans a bold recasting of the job description for a president's spouse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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