| 单词 | cast |
| 释义 | Word Frequency cast(kɑːst) verbWord forms: casts, casting or cast (mainly tr) 1. to throw or expel with violence or force 2. to throw off or away she cast her clothes to the ground 3. to reject or dismiss he cast the idea from his mind 4. to shed or drop the snake cast its skin the horse cast a shoe the ship cast anchor 5. be cast 6. to cause to appear to cast a shadow 7. to express (doubts, suspicions, etc) or cause (them) to be felt 8. to direct (a glance, attention, etc) cast your eye over this 9. to place, esp in a violent manner he was cast into prison 10. (also intr) angling to throw (a line) into the water 11. to draw or choose (lots) 12. to give or deposit (a vote) 13. to select (actors) to play parts in (a play, film, etc) 14. a. to shape (molten metal, glass, etc) by pouring or pressing it into a mould b. to make (an object) by such a process 15. (also intr; often foll by up) to compute (figures or a total) 16. to predict the old woman cast my fortune 17. astrology to draw on (a horoscope) details concerning the positions of the planets in the signs of the zodiac at a particular time for interpretation in terms of human characteristics, behaviour, etc 18. to contrive (esp in the phrase cast a spell) 19. to formulate he cast his work in the form of a chart 20. (also intr) to twist or cause to twist 21. (also intr) nautical to turn the head of (a sailing vessel) or (of a sailing vessel) to be turned awayfrom the wind in getting under way 22. hunting to direct (a pack of hounds) over (ground) where their quarry may recently have passed 23. (intransitive) (of birds of prey) to eject from the crop and bill a pellet consisting of the indigestible parts of birds or animals previously eaten 24. falconry to hold the body of a hawk between the hands so as to perform some operation upon it 25. printing to stereotype or electrotype 26. cast in one's lot with noun 27. the act of casting or throwing 28. a. Also called: casting something that is shed, dropped, or egested, such as the coil of earth left by an earthworm b. another name for pellet (sense 4) 29. an object that is thrown 30. the distance an object is or may be thrown 31. a. a throw at dice b. the resulting number shown 32. angling a. a trace with a fly or flies attached b. the act or an instance of casting 33. the wide sweep made by a sheepdog to get behind a flock of sheep or by a hunting dog in search of a scent 34. a. the actors in a play collectively b. (as modifier) a cast list 35. a. an object made of metal, glass, etc, that has been shaped in a molten state by beingpoured or pressed into a mould b. the mould used to shape such an object 36. form or appearance 37. sort, kind, or style 38. a fixed twist or defect, esp in the eye 39. a distortion of shape 40. surgery a rigid encircling casing, often made of plaster of Paris, for immobilizing broken bones while they heal 41. pathology a mass of fatty, waxy, cellular, or other material formed in a diseased body cavity, passage, etc 42. the act of casting a pack of hounds 43. falconry a pair of falcons working in combination to pursue the same quarry 44. archery the speed imparted to an arrow by a particular bow 45. a slight tinge or trace, as of colour 46. a computation or calculation 47. a forecast or conjecture 48. fortune or a stroke of fate 49. palaeontology a replica of an organic object made of nonorganic material, esp a lump of sediment that indicates the internal or external surface of a shell or skeleton 50. palaeontology a sedimentary structure representing the infilling of a mark or depression in a soft layer of sediment (or bed) Word origin C13: from Old Norse kasta |
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