(v. t.) To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
(v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Independence will give us the chance to recast our social security system for the future," she said.
(2) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
(3) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
(4) Recasting is often a semi-colon now, not a full-stop.
(5) Perhaps the contrast should now be recast as that between the constitution’s embarrassable and unembarrassable parts.
(6) This much is all reassuring, as was his recognition that the whole mould of politics has been recast by the Liberal-Conservative deal, even though he did not spell out what he thought this meant for Labour .
(7) Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Abbott as prime minister in September and recast the national security debate by emphasising mutual respect , has responded by saying that it was important not to tag all Muslims with responsibility for the crimes of a few.
(8) Tokyo, like London, offers a city already established on the world stage the opportunity to recast itself in the eyes of the world and its own public.
(9) Downing Street itself billed the reshuffle, the only major recasting of government planned ahead of the 2015 election, as an attempt to promote ministers capable of delivering on policies already announced.
(10) On Monday Clegg brushed off a question about the timing of the review, which is expected to report around the time of Labour's special conference, when Ed Miliband will aim to recast Labour's relationship with the unions.
(11) That could recast the broader political outlook, potentially to the benefit of liberals alarmed by what they see as Bo's leftist tendencies.
(12) With the conductivity a different constant in different regions, the variational principle is recast in terms of the charge density on the surfaces of discontinuity.
(13) The next morning, as the Lib Dems tried to come to terms with a media that had, overnight, recast their leader from insipid also-ran to hero, poll results that Clegg could not have dreamed of 24 hours earlier were still pouring out.
(14) Obama's address comes amid his steady loss of ground on efforts to recast America's approach to fighting terrorism.
(15) Although Top Gear has been around for almost 40 years, it was completely reinvented by Clarkson, recast in the distinct mould of his formidable personality.
(16) More fundamental, however, is recasting the way in which we do business.
(17) Nonetheless, a recasting of relations is compelling for a secretary of state eager to reclaim territory after the foreign policy crises in the Middle East and Afghanistan were hived off to envoys.
(18) On Gillard’s account the entire battle is recast.
(19) Universal credit , the government's recasting of the welfare benefits system, has had to be reorganised so fundamentally that the government watchdog responsible for grading its implementation has judged that it is now an entirely new project.
(20) But a recast could see Labor campaign more aggressively against the perceived weaknesses of Tony Abbott, contradicting its promise to run a positive campaign.
Throw
Definition:
(v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
(n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
(n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
(v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
(v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
(v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
(v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
(v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
(v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
(v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
(v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
(v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
(v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
(v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
(v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
(n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
(n.) A stroke; a blow.
(n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
(n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
(n.) An effort; a violent sally.
(n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
(n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
(n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
(n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
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.