(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.
Project
Definition:
(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.
Example Sentences:
(1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(4) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(5) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(6) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(8) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
(9) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(11) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(13) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(14) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(15) 14 rats were studied for the nigro-reticular projection.
(16) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(17) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
(18) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(19) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.