(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.
Sling
Definition:
(v. t.) An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. The missile being lodged in a hole in the strap, the ends of the string are taken in the hand, and the whole whirled rapidly round until, by loosing one end, the missile is let fly with centrifugal force.
(v. t.) The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
(v. t.) A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension
(v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
(v. t.) A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
(v. t.) A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
(v. t.) A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast; -- chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To throw with a sling.
(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to cast.
(v. t.) To hang so as to swing; as, to sling a pack.
(v. t.) To pass a rope round, as a cask, gun, etc., preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle.
(n.) A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(2) The sphincter urethrae muscle is located inside the sling of the puborectalis muscle in both sexes, but no muscle fibres connect them to one another.
(3) The Z-plasties facilitate effective dissection and redirection of the palatal muscles to produce an overlapping muscle sling and lengthen the velum without using tissue from the hard palate, which permits hard palate closure without pushback or lateral relaxing incisions.
(4) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
(5) 13 patients were treated by classical techniques of insertion-suspensions of the paralyzed side with a perioral loop and slings of PTFE suspended to the zygomatic arch and the infraorbital rim, by way of nasolabial angle or rhytidectomy incisions.
(6) The glenohumeral joint is stabilised superiorly by a posterior superior sling consisting of the long biceps tendon, the superior joint capsule, and the coracoacromial and coracohumeral ligaments.
(7) Of these patients 13 had undergone a pubovaginal sling procedure, 3 of whom had refractory symptoms, including urge incontinence, which resulted in augmentation cystoplasty in 2 and supravesical urinary diversion in 1.
(8) A method is described that overcomes the problem of flap detachment during the early postoperative period by suspending and supporting the tongue pedicle with a palatal sling.
(9) In 21 patients, fractures were treated with a sling for 1 week, and in 21 with a hanging cast for 1 week.
(10) It was transplanted ventral to the puborectalis sling into the anal dimple if present.
(11) The plastic slings of the Zoedler type led to an increased risk of complications such as retropubic infections, rejection of the mersilene, and chronic urinary retention.
(12) The fascia lata sling procedure has been used over the past 22 years in our unit for treating recurrent urinary stress incontinence when irreparably poor local support tissues were suspected.
(13) Hemorrhage of 14 ml.kg-1.5 min-1 was done in two groups of chronically prepared, splenectomized Yorkshire pigs that were conditioned behaviorally to lie in a Panepinto sling.
(14) Simultaneously it is used extraorbitally as a sling to raise the ptotic upper eyelid.
(15) This is the first such case, to our knowledge, without vascular sling.
(16) The pulmonary artery sling was diagnosed by angiography.
(17) This dramatic developmental abnormality was accompanied by delayed fusion of the septum, and a reduction in the population of subventricular cells that normally migrate to form a sling of cells extending from the medial aspect of the lateral ventricles to the midline.
(18) An unusually small adult corpus callosum occurs because fetal axons are able to follow unusual pathways and actively compensate for absence of the sling, not because of arrested midline development.
(19) In 7 patients, an eyelid suspension was performed with PTFE by Arion's technique, but by replacing the classical silicon thread by E-PTFE and transposing the medial part of the temporalis muscle on the external canthus, and fixing the lateral end of the sling to the muscle.
(20) The incidence of previous bladder neck surgery in this group was over 50%, with 11 previous vaginal repairs, one Burch colposuspension, and one Aldridge sling procedure.