Usually means: Molds or throws; assigns roles.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. casts: Merriam-Webster
  2. casts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. casts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Casts, cast's, casts: Wordnik
  5. casts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Casts, casts: Wiktionary
  7. casts: Dictionary.com
  8. casts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Casts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. casts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. casts: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. casts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. casts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Casts: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CASTS: Acronym Finder
  2. casts: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. casts: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (CAST)

verb:  (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
verb:  (now somewhat literary) To throw.
verb:  To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
verb:  To throw down or aside.
verb:  (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
verb:  (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
verb:  (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
verb:  (obsolete) To vomit.
verb:  (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
verb:  (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
verb:  To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
verb:  (dated outside accounting) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
verb:  (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
verb:  (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
verb:  (obsolete) To plan, intend.
verb:  (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
verb:  (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
verb:  (transitive) To describe in an opinionated way. Mostly used with a metaphor involving light.
verb:  To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
verb:  (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
verb:  (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
verb:  To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
verb:  To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
verb:  To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
verb:  (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
verb:  To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
verb:  (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
verb:  To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
verb:  (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
verb:  To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
verb:  (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
verb:  (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
verb:  (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
verb:  (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
verb:  (media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
noun:  An act of throwing.
noun:  The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
noun:  (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
noun:  Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
noun:  A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
noun:  The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
noun:  The casting procedure.
noun:  An object made in a mould.
noun:  A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
noun:  The mould used to make cast objects.
noun:  (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
noun:  A squint.
noun:  Visual appearance.
noun:  The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
noun:  Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
noun:  A group of crabs.
noun:  (firearms) The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
noun:  A chance or attempt at something.
noun:  (archaic, colloquial) Assistance given by transporting a person or lightening their labour.
adjective:  Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Obsolete form of caste (“hereditary social class of South Asia”). [Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.]
noun:  Initialism of Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking.
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