Concept cluster: Activities > Casting
n
(art) A reproduction work made by reusing a cast.
v
(figuratively, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To cast about; plan; plot; contrive.
v
(transitive) to prevent from entering or penetrating.
v
(politics, slang) To use a line-item veto.
v
(transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
v
(dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
v
(transitive) To plan; plot; contrive.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To cast about.
v
(transitive, dated) to compute.
v
To act as a caster
v
(transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
n
A series of auditions held in order to find a suitable actor, dancer, etc.
n
An unspecified source of stereotypical types for film or television.
v
(Canada, US, idiomatic) To redirect someone’s attention.
v
To change or exchange repeatedly.
v
(theater) To cast an actor of the opposite gender to play a part.
n
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
v
To draw out; to call forth.
v
(archaic) To draw up (a document).
n
(music) The result of a dubdown.
v
(transitive, astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
n
Alternative form of fade in [A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.]
v
(transitive) To overdub (a video) as a fan activity, translating the foreign language into the local language.
v
(intransitive) To distribute flyers (leaflets).
n
A cast (moulding) of a person's head
v
To be in the correct position, for instance setting up for a turn in racing, or the right distance from the camera in filming.
v
(transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
v
To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
v
Alternative form of offcast [(transitive) to cast off; shed.]
n
A complete version of a recording or film that is dropped in favour of another version, reject.
v
(transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
v
(transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
v
(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
n
(archaic) The throwing of materials into a crucible, hence the transmutation of metals.
v
(transitive) To manufacture using the robocasting technique.
v
(transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.
adj
Cast in a mould.
n
An instance of runecasting.
v
To adjust something by using shims.
v
(intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
v
Alternative form of sidecast [(engineering) To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.]
v
Alternative form of sidecast [(engineering) To eject waste material that has been excavated or dredged to the side, rather than hauling it away.]
n
(drafting) A calculation or figure that is listed in a table beside a drawing that gives a value which cannot be read directly from the drawing.
v
To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.
v
(figuratively) To hold to a different opinion or appreciation (about something); to possess a new, changed, or regenerated mindset, usually for the better.
n
One who swaps.
v
(programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
n
(bowling) A cast; a throw.

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