What's the difference between cast and throwing?

Cast


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cast
  • (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.

Throwing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Throw
  • () a. & n. from Throw, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
  • (4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
  • (6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
  • (14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
  • (15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
  • (17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
  • (19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
  • (20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.

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