(v. t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
(v. t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
(v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
(v. t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
(v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
(v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
(v. t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
(v. t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(v. t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
(v. t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(v. t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
(v. t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
(v. t.) To contrive; to plan.
(v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
(v. t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
(v. t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
(v. t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
(v. t.) To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
(v. i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
(v. i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
(v. i.) To calculate; to compute.
(v. i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
(v. i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
(v. i.) To vomit.
() 3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
(n.) The thing thrown.
(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
(n.) That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
(n.) A stoke, touch, or trick.
(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(2) Femoral angiograms were made in 21 cadavers under simulated clinical conditions, with a pressurized radiopaque casting material.
(3) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(4) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(5) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
(6) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
(7) Casts of lacunae and canaliculi along with the underlying matrix could be visualized in these preparations.
(8) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
(9) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(10) The resultant castings were assessed according to specific criteria relating to detailed design features.
(11) Updated at 12.23pm BST 12.04pm BST As Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande prepare to reveal their austerity budgets (Spain goes on Thursday and France on Friday), they might be forgiven for casting an envious eye towards Australia where government statisticians revealed that the country is A$325bn (£200bn) better off than they'd thought.
(12) With the cast of the long-running US series Without a Trace.
(13) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(14) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
(15) At yesterday's EGM in London some 93% of votes cast by non-Bolloré Group shareholders opposed his plan.
(16) A Bernoulli 'free-fall' numerical model is shown to reproduce the principal features of such casting, with some evidence of viscosity limitation of the turbulent flow at long casting lengths.
(17) Chris Williamson, of data provider Markit, said: "A batch of dismal data and a gloomier assessment of the economic outlook has cast a further dark cloud over the UK's economic health, piling pressure on the government to review its fiscal policy and growth strategy.
(18) 88% of the Norwegian surgeons prescribed a cast for six weeks after surgery, while only 15% of the surgeons in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Study Group prescribe immobilization for more than four weeks.
(19) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
(20) Problems in the seating of simple and complex castings are virtually eliminated.
Polytype
Definition:
(n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.
(a.) Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping; as, a polytype plate.
(v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving.
Example Sentences:
(1) There has been no polytypical variation in human hairforms for at least the last 10,000 years.
(2) In contrast, no patients with polytypic small lymphocytic infiltrates have disseminated, although one lesion locally recurred 30 months later as lymphoma.
(3) This study demonstrates (1) results of immunocytochemical and DNA-FCM analysis of FNA-derived material are comparable in the majority of cases to those obtained from surgical specimens, (2) immunostaining of cytospin preparations for immunoglobulin (Ig) gives less background staining and in certain cases is easier to interpret than when performed on frozen sections, and (3) monotypia in FNA in conjunction with cytomorphologic study is 100% specific for lymphoma, and polytypic staining for Ig does not exclude HD, T-cell lymphoma, or B-cell malignancy focally involving a lymph node.
(4) Using histologic criteria, 36 cases were malignant (35 monotypic; one immunoglobulin-negative, B-lineage), 44 were indeterminate (31 monotypic, 13 polytypic), and 19 were benign (all polytypic).
(5) It is established that L. major is a polytypic group which on the territory of the USSR consists of 3 independent species: L. major (in a narrower sense), L. gerbilli and L. sp.
(6) The coefficient of variation of ECV that characterizes a group composed of all Plio-Pleistocene gracile hominids does not support a single polytypic species interpretation of this assemblage.
(7) In this study of a large number of Ig positive lymphomas, staining for a wide variety of antigens has identified clear differences between monotypic Ig synthesizing cells and cells staining polytypically which appear to be taking up Ig from the environment.
(8) It was concluded in 1951 that the Culex pipiens complex could best be treated as a single polytypic species.
(9) In the case showing a follicular pattern, the extrafollicular CCL cells and most of the cells within the mucosal follicles expressed alpha 1 heavy chain, but a minor and variable population of cells expressed polytypic IgM.
(10) All lesions were composed of T cells, polytypic B cells, macrophages, and Langerhans cells.
(11) The deposit, polytypically immunoreactive for immunoglobulin gamma-, mu-, kappa- and lambda-chains, beta 2-microglobulin and HLA-DR, was scarcely reactive upon amyloid staining, and consisted ultrastructurally of electron-dense, non-fibrillar material and entrapped collagen fibers.
(12) Monotypic WNV virus reactions were frequently found in children while polytypic reactions were frequently found in adults.
(13) In most of the specimens the varying majorities of IgA or IgG producing cells and the polytypical expression of kappa and lambda light chains were similar to the patterns in inflammatory disorders.
(14) As described previously for follicular lymphomas in lymph nodes, many cases exhibited polytypic follicular mantle zones similar to reactive follicles.
(15) The majority of this cell population was of polytypic IgG, IgM or IgA origin, but there was a significant contribution by monotypic IgE-lambda-containing cells, varying from 10% in the appendix to 35% in lymph node.
(16) In eight lesions these appeared to have polytypic surface Ig (mu, kappa, lambda).
(17) An immunohistological study demonstrated a light chain restricted immunoglobulin expression of the tumour cells as well as some residual polytypic follicles exhibiting reticular dendritic cells.
(18) Plasma cells were rare and always showed a polytypic immunoglobulin pattern.
(19) The parasite has polytypic loci for leucine aminopeptidase (LAP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGD).
(20) Grippovac SE-AZh a polytype, subunit influenza virus vaccine containing H1N1 and H3N2 influenza A virus strains and one influenza B virus strain has been tested in 80 volunteers.