type-castadj.
/ˈtʌɪpkɑːst/, /ˈtʌɪpkast/, U.S. /ˈtaɪpˌkæst/ 1. Formed into type for printing.
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type-cast1876
1876 Nature 18 May 43/2 This hammer..carries at its extremity a type~cast letter.
2. Of an actor, etc.: that has been type-cast (see type-cast v.); identified with a particular kind of part. Also transferred and in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [adjective] > cast, type-cast, or miscast
parted1612
under-parted1890
overparted1896
type-cast1946
1946 S. H. Adams Alexander Woollcott 314 He is type~cast if ever a man was.
1952 Time 2 June 92/2 Hollywood noticed Jules in 1938, changed his name to John Garfield, and launched him on a type-cast screen career of playing himself—the narrow-eyed, rock-hard underdog.
1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxiv. 135 ‘So I am type~cast as the loser?’ ‘It's a one-horse race,’ said Samantha.
1965 Spectator 29 Jan. 137/2 He is in danger of becoming typecast.
1971 Daily Tel. 9 June 13/5 David Shepherd is type-cast as the man who paints elephants and this bothers him. He wants to be known as ‘a painter’.
1976 M. Gilbert Night of Twelfth xvi. 149 Naval Officers are deceptive people. They're usually type-cast as bluff simple extroverts... Actually, their training, and the lives they have to lead, are calculated to produce the most complex introverts.
1982 M. Babson Death beside Seaside v. 41 One gets the feeling she's typecast in her show.
1984 Listener 19 Jan. 37/2 It is only in New York, in my experience, that truly typecast events occur.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
type-castv.
/ˈtʌɪpkɑːst/, /ˈtʌɪpkast/, U.S. /ˈtaɪpˌkæst/ transitive. To cast (an actor) in a role or roles for which he appears to be physically or temperamentally suited or of a kind in which he has been successful; to allocate continually to the same type of part. Also transferred and figurative, and in extended use, to represent or regard as a stereotype.
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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
1946 [implied in: S. H. Adams Alexander Woollcott 314 He is type~cast if ever a man was. (at type-cast adj. 2)].
1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 192 Type cast, to assign parts to artistes who approximate the type drawn in the play.
1958 R. Hoggart in N. Mackenzie Conviction 136 We..will no longer type-cast regional accents by class or comedy.
1958 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Nov. 6/2 Right-to-work has been type-cast as a villain in the public mind.
1959 Times 9 Nov. 6/4 Sir Thomas Beecham's gifts tend to typecast him as an interpreter of even-numbered Beethoven.
1971 Country Life 20 May 1252/1 But it is by using plants in this category as ornamentals in their own right instead of type-casting them purely as herbs for the herb garden that they become most useful in the garden.
1981 Notes & Queries Oct. 448/2 Hardy's contemporaries, having type-cast him as a novelist, were dubious if not contemptuous of his poetry.
1982 Daily Tel. 16 July 15/4 People are not as likely to be typecast by their accents as they once were.
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adj.1876
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