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单词 undercast
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undercastn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: under- prefix1, cast n.
Etymology: < under- prefix1 + cast n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈundercast.
Mining.
(under- prefix1 2b(c).)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > ventilation passages or openings
througher1645
thirling1686
air-pit1709
horse-head1747
sollar1778
airway1800
wind-hole1802
bearing door1813
air course1814
downcast shaft1814
upcast shaft (or pit)1816
buze1823
air road1832
raggling1839
thirl1847
brattice1849
intake1849
run1849
trapdoor1849
skailing1850
return1851
wind-road1860
breakthrough1875
wind-way1875
breast1882
cross-heading1883
skail-door1883
U.C.1883
undercast1883
vent1886
furnace-drift1892
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 266 Undercast, an air course or wind road carried underneath a wagon way or other road.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 69 Undercast, the lower of two air courses at an air crossing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

undercastv.

Etymology: under- prefix1 2b(b), 3b, 4a, 5(a). Compare Middle Danish and Danish underkaste, Middle Swedish undir-, Swedish underkasta.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: underˈcast.
1. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To cast down; to make subject, subdue.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)]
wieldOE
i-weldeOE
onwaldOE
overwieldlOE
amaistera1250
underlaya1300
daunt1303
underbringc1320
yoke?c1335
undercasta1340
afaitec1350
faite1362
subjecta1382
to make subjectc1384
distraina1400
underlouta1400
underthewa1400
underset1422
subjectc1460
subjuge?1473
submise?1473
dompt1480
suppedit?1483
to keep under1486
abandon1487
bandon?a1500
suppeditatec1545
to bring under1563
reduce1569
assubject1579
overpower1597
envassal1606
assubjugate1609
vassal1612
subact1619
vassalize1647
vassalate1659
to school down1818
to ride herd on (also over)1895
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter viii. 7 All thyngis þou vndirkast vndir his fete.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xviii. 22 In wrd hym that ouertrauailede hym, he vndircaste.
a1395 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xxxvii Thenne forsakyth he vtterly hymself & vndercastyth hym holy to Jhesu.
1483 Cath. Angl. 259/2 To Ondyr cast, subicere, subiectare.
a1618 J. Sylvester Mysterie of Mysteries in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) facing p. 1215 Vnder All things, not vnder-cast: Ouer All things, not ouer-plaç't.
b. To subject to a penalty.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > render liable to
undercast1382
pain1516
impose1568
penalize1854
sanction1956
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxi. 21 If..he [sc. a servant] lyue over a day, or two, he shal not be vndurcast to that peyne.
2. To cast under or below. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > under
undercastc1440
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1155 Of vines that forwepe,..the fattest roote away they tere,..And aisel kene is vnderkest in ground.
3. To consider, reflect. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) v. 554 Till he..In-till his hart gan wmbecast [1487 St. John's Cambr. vmbecast] Yat ye king had in custome ay For to rys arly ilk day.
4. Theatre. To allot (a part) to an inadequate player; to cast (a player) in an insufficient role.
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
1827 J. Boaden Mem. Mrs. Siddons II. xiii. 66 The Anna, by Miss Wheeler, was rather under-cast.
1920 G. B. Shaw Let. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 206 Overcasting a part means undercasting an artist.
1957 Observer 12 May 15/2 [The part] is admittedly under-written; that is no reason why it should have been undercast.
1970 New Yorker 22 Aug. 59 Rossellini deliberately undercasts him, as he does every~one else. Colbert is made to look uninteresting and rather bourgeois.
1977 Times 9 July 10 The play was woefully undercast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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