单词 | type-casting |
释义 | type-castingn. 1. The forming of metal, wood, etc., into type for printing. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] letter founding1683 letter foundry1785 type-casting1864 1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 381 By the use of type-casting machines a workman can cast ninety brevier types a minute. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Type-casting,..Type casting and setting machine. 1897 Daily News 2 Feb. 2/1 The Wicks Rotary Type-Casting Machine can cast..from 40,000 to 60,000 letters per hour. 1967 V. Strauss Printing Industry ii. 66/1 Hot-metal machines are type-casting equipment. 2. The casting of 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; the fact of being so cast. Also transferred and in extended use, representation as a stereotype or stereotypes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [noun] > (types of) casting cast1631 casting1814 miscasting1926 type-casting1927 stunt casting1949 typing1960 1927 Observer 25 Sept. 13/4 Please do not conclude that I believe in ‘type-casting’; an actor should in his time play many sorts of part. 1947 A. Menen Prevalence of Witches xi. 190 He says..why pick on him to work a miracle? He says it's his beard..; he says its just type~casting, like they do in pictures. 1960 20th Cent. Dec. 588 These Dickensian names suggest the general feeling of type-casting. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon iii. 38 Film-music composers are just as liable to type-casting as actors and actresses. 1979 D. Arkell Looking for Laforgue iii. 78 Laforgue was invariably given the part of Colline, the philosopher... It would appear to have been excellent type-casting. Derivatives type-caster n. ΚΠ 1847 in Inquiry Yorksh. Deaf & Dumb (1870) 19 As a type-caster..we consider him a good hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1847 |
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