What's the difference between cast and water?

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.

Water


Definition:

  • (n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
  • (n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
  • (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
  • (n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
  • (n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
  • (n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
  • (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
  • (v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
  • (v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
  • (v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
  • (n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
  • (v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
  • (v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
  • (5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
  • (6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
  • (8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
  • (19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).