英语词汇“cast”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cast1

/kɑːst

verb (past and past participle cast) [with object]

1 [usually with adverbial of direction] chiefly literary Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction: he cast the book down on to the chair angrily the fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna figurative individuals who do not accept the norms are cast out from the group...

Our forebears were cast out from their homeland by the ruling class.
So just as prisoners are cast out of mainstream society, prisons exist largely out of mainstream public life.
While your heart may be set on the University of Michigan or Yale, cast your net wide.

Synonyms

throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, bowl, dash, shy, lob, launch, flip, let fly, direct, discharge, project, propel, send

informal chuck, heave, sling, bung

1.1Throw the hooked and baited end of (a fishing line) out into the water.Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of Corona....

A mid-sized rig loomed in the distance, floating on the water with several fishing lines cast over the sides.
They were casting fishing lines into the water.

1.2Let down (an anchor or sounding line).This captain of the ship decides to cast anchor after leaving Java because of a storm....

When the anchor was cast, he left the vessel with a purple face.
Other times, resupply stations are available for you to cast your anchor at for repairs.

2 [with adverbial of place] Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface: the moon cast a pale light over the cottages...

During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth.
The moon cast shadows of silver light, which lay in pools on the bedspread.
Its rays of light cast eerie shadows that danced on the wall and the ceiling.

Synonyms

emit, give off, send out, send forth, shed, radiate, diffuse, spread out

form, create, make, produce, cause;

project, throw

2.1 [with adverbial of direction] Direct (one’s eyes or a look) at something: she cast down her eyes [with two objects]: she cast him a desperate glance...

Jeremy cast a desperate look over his shoulder - where were the cameras?
Judy narrowed her eyes, cast a critical look at the laughing woman standing next to a small, plump girl, and threw the picture in the box.
The doctor lowered his weapon as his eyes cast a cold look around the camp.

Synonyms

direct, shoot, turn, throw, send, dart, bestow, give

2.2Cause (uncertainty or disparagement) to be associated with something: journalists cast doubt on the government’s version of events...

Research in Glasgow has cast doubt on the mental and physical tasks that police have been using for three years to try to crack down on what is feared to be an epidemic of drug driving.
But other nutrition experts cast doubt on whether fasting should be reintroduced as a weight-loss technique.
Some scientific experts cast doubt on the letter's authenticity.

3 [with adverbial of direction] Discard: he jumped in, casting caution to the wind...

You don't know whether to cast caution to the wind and make an offer, or wait to see if something better comes along.
But when the last one ended, that anxiety was cast away.
And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap.

Synonyms

discard, reject, cast/throw away, cast/throw out, dispense with, get rid of, dispose of, abandon

3.1Shed (skin or horns) in the process of growth: the antlers are cast each year...

Lice seen on chairs, pillows, and hats are dead, sick, or elderly or are cast skins of lice - these cannot infect a person.
A film of liquid develops between the two layers of skin, which later makes it easier for the animal to cast its skin.
The moose had started to cast their horns about Christmas time.

Synonyms

shed, discard, slough off, throw off, get rid of, let fall, let drop;

moult, peel off

technical exuviate

3.2(Of a horse) lose (a shoe).Tied to his saddle is a sponge, for cooling him down, and a bag packed with hi - tech equine electrolytes, snacks and the horse equivalent of a spare tyre, a rubber boot in case he casts a shoe....

Under normal conditions, if a horse has cast a shoe, I can get out in a day or two and put it back on.
The pony had cast its shoe and must be shod before next day.

4Shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mould while molten: when hammered or cast, bronze could be made into tools...

Brooches were made either by hammering a piece of metal into the right shape or by casting molten metal in a mould.
It casts molten silicon in moulds, just as metal components are cast.
Cast iron is very versatile, as it can be poured into moulds when molten and cast into complicated shapes, but is very brittle.

Synonyms

mould, fashion, form, shape, model;

sculpt, sculpture, frame, forge, carve;

make, create, build, manufacture

4.1Make (a moulded object) by casting metal: a bell was cast for the church...

For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line.
In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold.
The Lord Lieutenant of East Yorkshire, Richard Marriott, travelled down to the foundry where the six bells have been cast to inspect them for himself.

4.2Arrange and present in a specified form or style: he issued statements cast in tones of reason...

He has been cast in a certain way by his silence because he thought the right thing to do was to work with the police and not come on your show.
First, the rhetoric requires motherhood to be cast in unrealistically negative terms.
Will the resident antipathy towards America in other spheres be cast in the same style?

5Register (a vote): votes have been cast in 40 per cent of the seats...

Postal votes can be cast any time until and including June 10, providing they are received by 10 pm at the address on the return envelope.
By lunchtime, across East Timor, four out of five of those who had registered had cast their votes.
A vast number of early votes and absentee votes have been cast.

Synonyms

register, record, enter, file, lodge, post, set down, vote;

allot, assign, give

6Cause (a magic spell) to take effect: the witch cast a spell on her to turn her into a beast figurative the city casts a spell on the visitor...

A marriage certificate does not cast a magic spell of protection.
Her child, who would be born with the ability to wield magic, would not cast a single spell until certain conditions were met.
Without adequate meditation, she wouldn't have enough magic energy to cast a spell.

Synonyms

bewitch, enchant;

curse, jinx, witch;

North American hex;

Australian point the bone at

literary entrance

7Calculate and record details of (a horoscope): you can look at the star chart cast at somebody’s birth...

As Nick himself puts it, if this is how one sees astrology ‘one may just as easily roll a set of astro-dice as go to the bother of casting a horoscope’.
At the end I asked her if I could cast her horoscope.
It contains the blank forms/charts and instructions on how to cast your own natal chart.

Synonyms

calculate, devise, compute, reckon, determine, assess, work out, formulate, record, write;

predict, forecast, foretell, foresee, prophesy

8 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] (In country dancing) change one’s position by moving a certain number of places in a certain direction along the outside of the line in which one is dancing: cross the set and cast down one place...

Come back up to where you started and cast round one couple to progress.
Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple.
Bottom couple dance together up the middle of the set, and cast out and down the outside back to places.

9 [no object] Hunting (Of a dog) search in different directions for a lost scent: the dog cast furiously for the vanished rabbit...

He sat up and looked to where the dogs cast for his trail.
This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master.
Horses and men were standing all close together, while the hounds were casting for a scent.

9.1 [with object] Let loose (hounds) on a scent: casting the hounds into cover, we stood and listened...

When the pack loses the scent, the huntsman will cast the hounds again.
The huntsman casts the hounds usually with the wind at his back.
Red-coated huntsmen drive and cast the dogs into promising spots with whoops and short blasts from a small fox horn.

10Immobilize (an animal, especially a cow) by using a rope to cause it to fall on its side.Casting the cow and placing her in dorsal recumbency may greatly facilitate extension of the fetal head....

If that had not worked we would have used ropes to cast the cow.
Small animals may be cast by placing a lark's head hitch around the thorax and abdomen.

noun

1An object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mould: bronze casts of the sculpture...

Previously, like Rodin and his followers, Brancusi had modelled his sculptures in clay or plaster and then made bronze casts.
Sonja Landweer is exhibiting a series of bronze casts taken from ceramic moulds.
They're everywhere; his signature, their presence captured in Snowdon's great 1988 photograph and in those ubiquitous casts in plaster and bronze.

1.1 (also plaster cast) A mould used to make an object by casting: the artist’s casts and moulds became the property of the museum...

The models began life sculpted in clay, before a plaster cast was used to mould the final version in glass fibre, with the knight and the totem pole finished to look like bronze, the helmet in iron.
When Elgin first went to Athens, his intention was simply to make a plaster cast of the sculptures.
It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body.

Synonyms

mould, die, form, matrix, shape, casting, template, pattern, frame;

sculpture, model, replica, copy, representation, mock-up, imitation, reproduction, figure

1.2 (also plaster cast) A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, moulded to the shape of a limb that is broken and used to support and protect it: I had to spend a month in a cast...

Why aren't some types of broken bones put in casts right away?
Some members of this profession specialize in a narrow range of conditions, for example, bonesetters, who make casts and medicines for broken limbs.
Joshua, who is encased from hip to neck in a plaster cast to protect his weak bones, had a huge smile on his face throughout

2An act of throwing something forcefully: he grabbed a spear for a third cast...

His arm goes back for a mighty cast of the lance.

2.1 Fishing A throw of a fishing line: I swung the rod out for a cast...

First cast, the fly landed lightly, then drifted downstream for about three yards.
After a few hopeful short casts, I punched out as far as possible, to the deeper channel, about twenty yards off the sandbar.
In the next four casts, I had four more pike averaging some six pounds.

2.2British The leader of a fishing line.

2.3 archaic A throw or a number thrown at dice: 'tis no winning cast...

When they have lost all their money they will play for their houses, their land, and their wives even, whose destiny often depends on a cast of the dice.
His own fault he hides, as a cheat hides an unlucky cast of the die.
Players use the dice to score points without losing all their chips but a single strategic play of a card or lucky cast of the dice can turn the game around.

3 [in singular, with adjective or noun modifier] The form or appearance of something, especially someone’s features or complexion: she had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance the colours he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin...

He has a Slavic cast of feature, which he acknowledges helps him to adopt a cloak of invisibility.
She paused to look at him, and noticed something strange, an odd cast to his features.
He was eerily calm all of a sudden, but had a sinister cast to his features as he smirked.

3.1The character of something: this question is for minds of a more philosophical cast than mine...

This leads to a confusion about the philosophical cast of mind of most people who vote Democrat.
Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that.
While much of the information Patterson covers is not new ground, there is a decidedly different cast to her research.

Synonyms

type, sort, kind, variety, class, style, stamp, nature, manner, pattern, grain, mould, ilk, kidney, strain, brand, genre;

turn, inclination, bent

4A slight squint: he had a cast in one eye...

He wore glasses to correct a slight cast and would never use one word where a novel would do.
She was short, with heavy thighs, bad legs, and a cast in one eye.
The man spoke with a slushy, unfamiliar accent; his nose was splayed to the left and he had a cast in his right eye.

Synonyms

squint, cross-eyes

British informal boss-eye

technical strabismus

5 short for worm cast.This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells....

There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home.
The bacterial population of a cast is much greater than the bacterial population of either ingested soil, or the earthworm's gut.

6A pellet regurgitated by a hawk or owl.

7 Hunting A wide search made by a hound or pack of hounds to find a trail.It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs.

7.1Australian /NZ A wide sweep made by a sheepdog in mustering sheep.

8 rare A pair or group of hawks or falcons: he gave one thousand pounds for a cast of hawks...

A cast of hawks, so low I could touch their wings, fly around me.
In nature, Professor Daniels says, "crows would definitely, through teamwork and working together, shoo off a cast of hawks".
He had a cast of hawks himself, and expected Lord Orford's falconer on the next morning with a cast and a half more.

Phrases

be cast in a —— mould

cast one's bread upon the waters

cast one's eyes over

cast light on

cast lots

cast one's mind back

cast the (or one's) net

Phrasal verbs

cast about (or around or round)

be cast away

be cast down

cast off (or cast something off)

cast someone off

cast on (or cast something on)

cast something up

Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse kasta 'to cast or throw'.

Rhymes

cast2

/kɑːst

noun [treated as singular or plural]

The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production: he draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast...

Many of the film's cast are not professional actors but people who live in the conditions portrayed.
But, because of the efforts of the crew and every one of those actors in the cast, the film was completed.
As an international co-production, the film also heavily features American actors in the cast.

verb (past and past participle cast) [with object]

1Assign a part in a play or film to (an actor): he was cast as a young knight in her lavish historical epic...

Actors are cast as virtual crew members in prerecorded scenarios that astronauts then use when problems arise.
Actors are cast as versions of themselves and then left to the mercy of different teams of writers and directors.
Another choice Bergman made was to cast non-professional actors in the leads.

Synonyms

choose, select, pick, name, nominate, assign, appoint, give/assign the part to

1.1Allocate parts in (a play or film): assembling a great baseball team is as tricky as casting a play...

After he cast the film, we all met at his house for a preliminary discussion, after which he went to Sweden for five days and wrote the script.
‘Once we cast the film, we spent a lot of time with the actors,’ he explains.
The producer works with the writer, casts the film, and supervises the editing.

Origin

Mid 17th century: a special use of cast¹ in cast¹ (sense 4 of the verb).

单词	cast
释义	cast1 /kɑːst / verb (past and past participle cast) [with object] 1 [usually with adverbial of direction] chiefly literary Throw (something) forcefully in a specified direction: he cast the book down on to the chair angrily the fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna figurative individuals who do not accept the norms are cast out* from the group... Our forebears were cast out from their homeland by the ruling class. So just as prisoners are cast out of mainstream society, prisons exist largely out of mainstream public life. While your heart may be set on the University of Michigan or Yale, cast your net wide. Synonyms throw, toss, fling, pitch, hurl, bowl, dash, shy, lob, launch, flip, let fly, direct, discharge, project, propel, send informal* chuck, heave, sling, bung 1.1Throw the hooked and baited end of (a fishing line) out into the water.Two men are sitting on the jetty, fixing bait to hooks and casting fishing-lines out into the water, chatting quietly in Spanish and sipping from bottles of Corona.... A mid-sized rig loomed in the distance, floating on the water with several fishing lines cast over the sides. They were casting fishing lines into the water. 1.2Let down (an anchor or sounding line).This captain of the ship decides to cast anchor after leaving Java because of a storm.... When the anchor was cast, he left the vessel with a purple face. Other times, resupply stations are available for you to cast your anchor at for repairs. 2 [with adverbial of place] Cause (light or shadow) to appear on a surface: the moon cast a pale light over the cottages... During a solar eclipse the Moon moves across the Sun, blocking its light and casting a shadow onto the Earth. The moon cast shadows of silver light, which lay in pools on the bedspread. Its rays of light cast eerie shadows that danced on the wall and the ceiling. Synonyms emit, give off, send out, send forth, shed, radiate, diffuse, spread out form, create, make, produce, cause; project, throw 2.1 [with adverbial of direction] Direct (one’s eyes or a look) at something: she cast down her eyes [with two objects]: she cast him a desperate glance... Jeremy cast a desperate look over his shoulder - where were the cameras? Judy narrowed her eyes, cast a critical look at the laughing woman standing next to a small, plump girl, and threw the picture in the box. The doctor lowered his weapon as his eyes cast a cold look around the camp. Synonyms direct, shoot, turn, throw, send, dart, bestow, give 2.2Cause (uncertainty or disparagement) to be associated with something: journalists cast doubt on* the government’s version of events... Research in Glasgow has cast doubt on the mental and physical tasks that police have been using for three years to try to crack down on what is feared to be an epidemic of drug driving. But other nutrition experts cast doubt on whether fasting should be reintroduced as a weight-loss technique. Some scientific experts cast doubt on the letter's authenticity. 3 [with adverbial of direction]* Discard: he jumped in, casting caution to the wind... You don't know whether to cast caution to the wind and make an offer, or wait to see if something better comes along. But when the last one ended, that anxiety was cast away. And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap. Synonyms discard, reject, cast/throw away, cast/throw out, dispense with, get rid of, dispose of, abandon 3.1Shed (skin or horns) in the process of growth: the antlers are cast each year... Lice seen on chairs, pillows, and hats are dead, sick, or elderly or are cast skins of lice - these cannot infect a person. A film of liquid develops between the two layers of skin, which later makes it easier for the animal to cast its skin. The moose had started to cast their horns about Christmas time. Synonyms shed, discard, slough off, throw off, get rid of, let fall, let drop; moult, peel off technical exuviate 3.2(Of a horse) lose (a shoe).Tied to his saddle is a sponge, for cooling him down, and a bag packed with hi - tech equine electrolytes, snacks and the horse equivalent of a spare tyre, a rubber boot in case he casts a shoe.... Under normal conditions, if a horse has cast a shoe, I can get out in a day or two and put it back on. The pony had cast its shoe and must be shod before next day. 4Shape (metal or other material) by pouring it into a mould while molten: when hammered or cast, bronze could be made into tools... Brooches were made either by hammering a piece of metal into the right shape or by casting molten metal in a mould. It casts molten silicon in moulds, just as metal components are cast. Cast iron is very versatile, as it can be poured into moulds when molten and cast into complicated shapes, but is very brittle. Synonyms mould, fashion, form, shape, model; sculpt, sculpture, frame, forge, carve; make, create, build, manufacture 4.1Make (a moulded object) by casting metal: a bell was cast for the church... For nearly a century, the text to be printed was cast in hot metal, using monotype to set single characters or linotype to set text line by line. In those days type was cast in hot metal on Linotype machines and if power was off, the metal went cold. The Lord Lieutenant of East Yorkshire, Richard Marriott, travelled down to the foundry where the six bells have been cast to inspect them for himself. 4.2Arrange and present in a specified form or style: he issued statements cast in* tones of reason... He has been cast in a certain way by his silence because he thought the right thing to do was to work with the police and not come on your show. First, the rhetoric requires motherhood to be cast in unrealistically negative terms. Will the resident antipathy towards America in other spheres be cast in the same style? 5Register (a vote): votes have been cast in 40 per cent of the seats... Postal votes can be cast any time until and including June 10, providing they are received by 10 pm at the address on the return envelope. By lunchtime, across East Timor, four out of five of those who had registered had cast their votes. A vast number of early votes and absentee votes have been cast. Synonyms register, record, enter, file, lodge, post, set down, vote; allot, assign, give 6Cause (a magic spell) to take effect: the witch cast a spell on her to turn her into a beast* figurative the city casts a spell on* the visitor... A marriage certificate does not cast a magic spell of protection. Her child, who would be born with the ability to wield magic, would not cast a single spell until certain conditions were met. Without adequate meditation, she wouldn't have enough magic energy to cast a spell. Synonyms bewitch, enchant; curse, jinx, witch; North American* hex; Australian point the bone at literary entrance 7Calculate and record details of (a horoscope): you can look at the star chart cast at somebody’s birth... As Nick himself puts it, if this is how one sees astrology ‘one may just as easily roll a set of astro-dice as go to the bother of casting a horoscope’. At the end I asked her if I could cast her horoscope. It contains the blank forms/charts and instructions on how to cast your own natal chart. Synonyms calculate, devise, compute, reckon, determine, assess, work out, formulate, record, write; predict, forecast, foretell, foresee, prophesy 8 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] (In country dancing) change one’s position by moving a certain number of places in a certain direction along the outside of the line in which one is dancing: cross the set and cast down one place... Come back up to where you started and cast round one couple to progress. Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple. Bottom couple dance together up the middle of the set, and cast out and down the outside back to places. 9 [no object] Hunting (Of a dog) search in different directions for a lost scent: the dog cast furiously for the vanished rabbit... He sat up and looked to where the dogs cast for his trail. This gave the Field a chance to catch up while the hounds cast back and picked up the line without help from the Master. Horses and men were standing all close together, while the hounds were casting for a scent. 9.1 [with object] Let loose (hounds) on a scent: casting the hounds into cover, we stood and listened... When the pack loses the scent, the huntsman will cast the hounds again. The huntsman casts the hounds usually with the wind at his back. Red-coated huntsmen drive and cast the dogs into promising spots with whoops and short blasts from a small fox horn. 10Immobilize (an animal, especially a cow) by using a rope to cause it to fall on its side.Casting the cow and placing her in dorsal recumbency may greatly facilitate extension of the fetal head.... If that had not worked we would have used ropes to cast the cow. Small animals may be cast by placing a lark's head hitch around the thorax and abdomen. noun 1An object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mould: bronze casts of the sculpture... Previously, like Rodin and his followers, Brancusi had modelled his sculptures in clay or plaster and then made bronze casts. Sonja Landweer is exhibiting a series of bronze casts taken from ceramic moulds. They're everywhere; his signature, their presence captured in Snowdon's great 1988 photograph and in those ubiquitous casts in plaster and bronze. 1.1 (also plaster cast) A mould used to make an object by casting: the artist’s casts and moulds became the property of the museum... The models began life sculpted in clay, before a plaster cast was used to mould the final version in glass fibre, with the knight and the totem pole finished to look like bronze, the helmet in iron. When Elgin first went to Athens, his intention was simply to make a plaster cast of the sculptures. It is such a gratifying and easy task to chat about life and times using literary works as a basis, just as it is more gratifying and easier to copy from a plaster cast than to draw a living body. Synonyms mould, die, form, matrix, shape, casting, template, pattern, frame; sculpture, model, replica, copy, representation, mock-up, imitation, reproduction, figure 1.2 (also plaster cast) A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris, moulded to the shape of a limb that is broken and used to support and protect it: I had to spend a month in a cast... Why aren't some types of broken bones put in casts right away? Some members of this profession specialize in a narrow range of conditions, for example, bonesetters, who make casts and medicines for broken limbs. Joshua, who is encased from hip to neck in a plaster cast to protect his weak bones, had a huge smile on his face throughout 2An act of throwing something forcefully: he grabbed a spear for a third cast... His arm goes back for a mighty cast of the lance. 2.1 Fishing A throw of a fishing line: I swung the rod out for a cast... First cast, the fly landed lightly, then drifted downstream for about three yards. After a few hopeful short casts, I punched out as far as possible, to the deeper channel, about twenty yards off the sandbar. In the next four casts, I had four more pike averaging some six pounds. 2.2British The leader of a fishing line. 2.3 archaic A throw or a number thrown at dice: 'tis no winning cast... When they have lost all their money they will play for their houses, their land, and their wives even, whose destiny often depends on a cast of the dice. His own fault he hides, as a cheat hides an unlucky cast of the die. Players use the dice to score points without losing all their chips but a single strategic play of a card or lucky cast of the dice can turn the game around. 3 [in singular, with adjective or noun modifier] The form or appearance of something, especially someone’s features or complexion: she had a somewhat masculine cast of countenance the colours he wore emphasized the olive cast of his skin... He has a Slavic cast of feature, which he acknowledges helps him to adopt a cloak of invisibility. She paused to look at him, and noticed something strange, an odd cast to his features. He was eerily calm all of a sudden, but had a sinister cast to his features as he smirked. 3.1The character of something: this question is for minds of a more philosophical cast than mine... This leads to a confusion about the philosophical cast of mind of most people who vote Democrat. Only die-hards or those of a philosophical cast of mind fail to see the futility of that. While much of the information Patterson covers is not new ground, there is a decidedly different cast to her research. Synonyms type, sort, kind, variety, class, style, stamp, nature, manner, pattern, grain, mould, ilk, kidney, strain, brand, genre; turn, inclination, bent 4A slight squint: he had a cast in one eye... He wore glasses to correct a slight cast and would never use one word where a novel would do. She was short, with heavy thighs, bad legs, and a cast in one eye. The man spoke with a slushy, unfamiliar accent; his nose was splayed to the left and he had a cast in his right eye. Synonyms squint, cross-eyes British informal boss-eye technical strabismus 5 short for worm cast.This is the yellow-faced blenny, often found in old tubeworm casts and even discarded shells.... There is one exception to this behaviour, and that is the specialised hermit crab Parugrita, which uses a crack in the reef or a discarded tubeworm cast as a home. The bacterial population of a cast is much greater than the bacterial population of either ingested soil, or the earthworm's gut. 6A pellet regurgitated by a hawk or owl. 7 Hunting A wide search made by a hound or pack of hounds to find a trail.It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs. 7.1Australian /NZ A wide sweep made by a sheepdog in mustering sheep. 8 rare A pair or group of hawks or falcons: he gave one thousand pounds for a cast of hawks... A cast of hawks, so low I could touch their wings, fly around me. In nature, Professor Daniels says, "crows would definitely, through teamwork and working together, shoo off a cast of hawks". He had a cast of hawks himself, and expected Lord Orford's falconer on the next morning with a cast and a half more. Phrases be cast in a —— mould cast one's bread upon the waters cast one's eyes over cast light on cast lots cast one's mind back cast the (or one's) net Phrasal verbs cast about (or around or round) be cast away be cast down cast off (or cast something off) cast someone off cast on (or cast something on) cast something up Origin Middle English: from Old Norse kasta 'to cast or throw'. Rhymes aghast, avast, Belfast, blast, caste, contrast, fast, last, mast, miscast, outlast, past, unsurpassed, vast cast2 /kɑːst / noun [treated as singular or plural] The actors taking part in a play, film, or other production: he draws sensitive performances from his inexperienced cast... Many of the film's cast are not professional actors but people who live in the conditions portrayed. But, because of the efforts of the crew and every one of those actors in the cast, the film was completed. As an international co-production, the film also heavily features American actors in the cast. verb (past and past participle cast) [with object] 1Assign a part in a play or film to (an actor): he was cast as* a young knight in her lavish historical epic... Actors are cast as virtual crew members in prerecorded scenarios that astronauts then use when problems arise. Actors are cast as versions of themselves and then left to the mercy of different teams of writers and directors. Another choice Bergman made was to cast non-professional actors in the leads. Synonyms choose, select, pick, name, nominate, assign, appoint, give/assign the part to 1.1Allocate parts in (a play or film): assembling a great baseball team is as tricky as casting a play*... After he cast the film, we all met at his house for a preliminary discussion, after which he went to Sweden for five days and wrote the script. ‘Once we cast the film, we spent a lot of time with the actors,’ he explains. The producer works with the writer, casts the film, and supervises the editing. Origin Mid 17th century: a special use of cast¹ in cast¹ (sense 4 of the verb).
随便看	overswelling over-swift overswim overswimming overswing overswollen overt overtakable overtake overtakeable overtaker over-talk over-talkative over-talkativeness overtalker overtalking overtask overtax overtaxation over-tedious overteem overteeming overtell over-tender over-tenderness