单词 | recast |
释义 | recastn. 1. Something (esp. a version of a text or theory) produced by recasting. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. That has been cast again (in various senses). ΘΚΠ 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. 1. transitive. To throw or cast again. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1812adj.1816v.1585 |
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