(n.) The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
(n.) The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.
(n.) That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
(n.) The warping of a board.
(n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
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.
Excreta
Definition:
(n. pl.) Matters to be excreted.
Example Sentences:
(1) From various sites, 0 to 3 x 10(5) viable C. neoformans particles were recovered per one gram of dry excreta.
(2) All interior surfaces of the chambers which could be reached by animals or their excreta were contaminated with radiolabeled metabolites.
(3) 50 g of each diet was tube-fed to each of 24 intact and 24 caecectomised cockerels, which had been previously starved for 48 h. Excreta were collected, individually, for 48 h. The concentrations of amino acids in the diets and excreta were determined, and digestibility coefficients calculated.
(4) Elimination of the labeled toxin in excreta occurred rapidly; recovery of radioactivity accounted for 78.6, 92.1, and 98.5% of the dose by 24, 48, and 72 hr, respectively.
(5) Up to 90% of the dose administered to rabbits appeared in the excreta during 10 days.
(6) The rate of excreta production was affected by the duration of starvation prior to the feeding of coarsely ground corn, soybean meal, and meat meal.
(7) We could detect no change in the lipid excreta obtained from rabbits that developed only subclinical MGD, consisting of orifice plugging and dilation of the duct.
(8) The cat is very important in the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis, but contact with cat excreta is most uncommon.
(9) Data on the economic status, number of rooms per household, number of persons per household, type of water supply, and mode of excreta disposal revealed that the majority of the population surveyed lived with economic hardship, overcrowding and poor hygiene.
(10) An isotope-dilution technique was used to estimate endogenous manganese in excreta.
(11) Correlation between calcium retention by the whole-body-counting and the excreta-recovery methods was highly significant (r = 0.835, P less than 0.0001; N = 17).
(12) This has started to change significantly in the past 10 years, helped by new approaches of provoking people and “triggering” them to improve how they defecate, for example by calling excreta “shit”.
(13) Denitronipradilol, 4- and 5-hydroxynipradilol, and 4- and 5-hydroxydenitronipradilol were identified as major metabolites in the plasma and excreta, and the degradation compounds of the aminohydroxypropoxy side chain were also found as minor metabolites.
(14) Plateau concentrations in excreta and blood were reached after about 20 d of contamination.
(15) Fecal crude fat was higher (P less than 0.05) for chicks fed barley, and excreta dry matter was lower for barley-fed chicks.
(16) The in vivo Ca solubilization in hens was determined by subtracting Ca recovered as limestone in the excreta (by repeated washing) from Ca fed as limestone.
(17) True digestible values were determined with a 48 h excreta collection assay using conventional (CONV) and caecectomized (CEC) cockerels.
(18) This process was accompanied by the release of significant amounts of mercury which appeared in the body organs and excreta.
(19) It averaged in the order of increasing Mn supply 12.5 vs. 12.0; 7.7 vs. 8.5; 3.9 vs 4.3, and 2.0 vs 2.3% of total excreta Mn.
(20) Excreta energy (FE + UE), excreta nitrogen (FN + UN), and excreta energy corrected to zero nitrogen balance (FEn + UEn) losses were measured at 24-hr intervals as were body weights (BW) and weight losses (delta BW).