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cast

English

Etymology

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (to throw, cast, overturn), from Proto-Germanic *kast?n? (to throw, cast), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cast (to cast, throw), Danish kaste (to throw), Swedish kasta (to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard), Icelandic kasta (to pitch, toss). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.

The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation): enPR: käst, IPA(key): /k??st/
  • (Northern England): enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /kast/
  • (General American): enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /kæst/
  • Rhymes: -??st, -æst
  • Homophones: caste, karst

Verb

cast (third-person singular simple present casts, present participle casting, simple past and past participle cast or (nonstandard) casted)

  1. (physical) To move, or be moved, away.
    1. (now somewhat literary) To throw. [from 13thc.]
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona:
        Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre [].
      • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, p.262:
        The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow [].
    2. To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. [from 14thc.]
      • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
        As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers) [].
    3. To throw down or aside. [from 15thc.]
      • 1611, Bible, Authorized Version, Matthew VI.30:
        it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
      • 1930, "Sidar the Madman", Time, 19 Dec.:
        Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
      • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:
        Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
    4. (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat. [from 15thc.]
    5. To cause (a horse or other large animal) to lie down with its legs underneath it.
    6. (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes). [from 14thc.]
      • 1822, "Life of Donald McBane", Blackwood's Magazine, vol.12, p.745:
        when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons [].
      • 2002, Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian, 2 March:
        You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
    7. (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
    8. (obsolete) To vomit.
      • These verses [] make me ready to cast.
    9. (archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
      • Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
    10. (archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
      • 1695 (first published), 1726 (final dated of publication) John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
        This [] casts a sulphurous smell.
    • 1849, Philip Henry Gosse, Natural History
      This horned bird, as it casts a strong smell, so it hath a foul look, much exceeding the European Raven in bigness
  2. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). [from 13thc.]
    • 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:
      To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, I.11:
      She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement [].
  3. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. [from 14thc.]
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2:
      The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.
  4. (social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
    1. (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.). [from 14thc.]
      • , vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:
        he is [] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.
      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, 2012, p.332:
        John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.
      • 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:
        He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.
    2. (obsolete) To plan, intend. [14th-19thc.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
        I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.
      • 1685, William Temple, "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus
        The cloister [] had, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].
    3. (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance). [from 18thc.]
    4. (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
    5. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
      • She [] cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
    6. (archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
      • Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
    7. (archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.
      • 1822, John Galt, The Provost
        She was cast to be hanged.
      • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
        Were the case referred to any competent judge, [] they would inevitably be cast.
    8. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
      • 24 July, 1659, Robert South, Interest Deposed, and Truth Restored
        How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!
  5. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
  6. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
    • 1950, "A Global View", Time, 24 April:
      The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.
    • 1960, Lawrence Durrell, Clea:
      A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.
  7. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry. [from 15thc.]
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:
      being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [transl. avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
      The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.
  8. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15thc.]
    • 1923, "Rodin's Death", Time, 24 March:
      One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.
    1. (printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.
  9. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.). [from 16thc.]
    • c. 1680, Joseph Moxon, The Art of Joinery
      Stuff is said to cast or warp when [] it alters its flatness or straightness.
  10. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round. [from 18thc.]
  11. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote). [from 19thc.]
  12. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text. [from 20thc.]
  13. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18thc.]
    • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:
      He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.
  14. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  15. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
  16. (media) To broadcast.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

cast (plural casts)

  1. An act of throwing.
  2. (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
  3. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
    • a cast of scatter'd dust
  4. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
  5. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
    He’s in the cast of Oliver.
    The cast was praised for a fine performance.
  6. The casting procedure.
    The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
  7. An object made in a mould.
    The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
  8. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
    The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
  9. The mould used to make cast objects.
    A plaster cast was made from his face.
  10. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].
  11. A squint.
    • 1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968:
      The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 7:
      Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.
  12. Visual appearance.
    Her features had a delicate cast to them.
  13. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
    a cast of mind, a mental tendency.
    • 1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, p. 40:
      The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:
      I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.
  14. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
  15. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
  16. A group of crabs.
  17. A broadcast.

Derived terms

  • castless
  • plaster cast

Translations

Further reading

  • cast at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • cast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • ACTs, ATCs, ATSC, Acts, CATs, CTAs, Cats, STCA, TACS, TCAS, TCAs, TSCA, acts, cats, scat

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin castus, possibly borrowed or semi-learned.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?kast/

Adjective

cast (feminine casta, masculine plural casts or castos, feminine plural castes)

  1. chaste

Related terms

  • castedat

Further reading

  • “cast” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [k??st]
  • Hyphenation: cast

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cast.

Noun

cast m (plural casts, diminutive castje n)

  1. cast (people performing a movie or play)
Synonyms
  • rolbezetting
  • rolverdeling

Related terms

  • casten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cast

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of casten
  2. imperative of casten

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cast.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kast/
  • Hyphenation: càst

Noun

cast m (invariable)

  1. cast (group of actors performing together)

Manx

Adjective

cast

  1. contorted, curly, curved
  2. complex, intricate, many-sided
  3. ticklish

Mutation

Derived terms

  • castid
  • castys
  • neuchast
  • yl-chast

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kast/

Adjective

cast m or n (feminine singular cast?, masculine plural ca?ti, feminine and neuter plural caste)

  1. chaste, clean, pure

Declension

Synonyms

  • pur

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kast/, [?kast?]

Noun

cast m (plural casts)

  1. cast (group of actors)

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show

English

Alternative forms

  • shew (archaic)
  • shewe (obsolete)
  • showe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English sc?awian (to look, look at, exhibit, display), from Proto-Germanic *skaww?n? (to look, see), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?- (to heed, look, feel, take note of); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.

Cognate with Scots shaw (to show), Saterland Frisian scoe (to look, behold), Dutch schouwen (to inspect, view), German schauen (to see, behold), Danish skue (to behold), Icelandic skygna (to spy, behold, see). Related to sheen.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation): IPA(key): /???/
  • (General American): enPR: sh?, IPA(key): /?o?/
  • Rhymes: -??

Verb

show (third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or (archaic) shew, past participle shown or (now rare, US) showed)

  1. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
  2. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
    to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please
  3. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
    • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
      A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.
  4. (transitive) To guide or escort.
  5. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
    • Just such she shows before a rising storm.
  6. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
  7. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
  8. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
  9. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

Usage notes

  • The past participle shown was uncommon before the 19th century, but is now the preferred form in standard English. In the UK, showed is regarded as archaic or dialectal. In the US, it is considered a standard variant form, but shown is more common. Garner's Modern American Usage favors shown over showed as past participle and claims it is mandatory for passives.
  • In the past, shew was used as a past-tense form and shewed as a past participle of this verb; both forms are now archaic.

Synonyms

  • (display): display, indicate, point out, reveal, exhibit
  • (indicate a fact to be true): demonstrate, prove
  • (put in an appearance): arrive, show up

Antonyms

  • (display): conceal, cover up, hide
  • (indicate a fact to be true): disprove, refute

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • showcase
  • showdown

Noun

show (countable and uncountable, plural shows)

  1. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
  2. (countable) An exhibition of items.
  3. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      Every day I do my morning show.
  4. (countable) A movie.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural show.
  6. A project or presentation.
    Let's get on with the show.   Let's get this show on the road.   They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.   It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.
  7. (countable) A demonstration.
  8. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
    • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
      I envy none their pageantry and show.
  9. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
    • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2
      So may the outward shows be least themselves:
      The world is still deceived with ornament.
  10. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
  11. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
  12. (archaic) Pretence.
  13. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication.
  14. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
    • Beware of the scribes, [] which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
  15. (obsolete) Plausibility.
  16. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

Synonyms

  • (exhibition): exhibition, exposition
  • (demonstration): demonstration, illustration, proof
  • (broadcast program(me)): program(me)
  • (mere display with no substance): façade, front, superficiality
  • (baseball): big leagues

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

  • showman
  • showpiece
  • show-stopper
  • show-stopping

References

Anagrams

  • Hows, how's, hows, who's, whos

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?o?/
  • Hyphenation: show

Noun

show m (plural shows, diminutive showtje n)

  1. A show (entertainment).

Derived terms

  • modeshow
  • showbiz
  • showen
  • talkshow

Finnish

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??ou?/, [??o?u?]
  • IPA(key): /??o?/, [??o??]
  • IPA(key): /?so?/, [?s?o??]

Noun

show

  1. show (entertainment)

Usage notes

In plural usually substituted with a synonym, as the word does not easily fit into any Finnish declension category.

Declension

Compounds

  • jääshow
  • lavashow
  • muotishow
  • ravintolashow
  • televisioshow
  • valoshow

Synonyms

  • esitys, näytös

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?o/

Noun

show m (plural shows)

  1. (Anglicism) show

Hungarian

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [??o?]
  • Homophone:
  • Hyphenation: show
  • Rhymes: -?o?

Noun

show (plural show-k)

  1. show (entertainment, programme, production, performance)

Declension

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???/, /??u/
  • Rhymes: -??, -?u

Noun

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa or showene)

  1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

Derived terms

  • moteshow
  • sceneshow

References

  • “show” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???/, /??u/
  • Rhymes: -??, -?u

Noun

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa)

  1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

Derived terms

  • moteshow
  • sceneshow

References

  • “show” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • chou (rare), xou (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /??ow/

Noun

show m (plural shows)

  1. show (a entertainment performance event)
    Synonyms: espetáculo, apresentação
    1. (especially) concert (musical presentation)
  2. (slang) an act or performance that demonstrates high skill; spectacle; display; feat
  3. (slang, often used in dar um show) the action of crying or yelling out loud in order to protest or complain about something, often in the context of a discussion or argument

Derived terms

  • dar um show
  • show de bola

Adjective

show (invariable, comparable)

  1. (Brazil, slang) amazing; awesome
    Synonyms: espetacular, excelente, maravilhoso

Spanish

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??ou/, [??ou?]
  • IPA(key): /?t??ou/, [?t??ou?]
  • IPA(key): /?sou/, [?sou?]

Noun

show m (plural shows)

  1. show
  2. (informal) a scandal
  3. spectacle
  4. an exhibition motivated action or thing

Swedish

Etymology

From English show.

Noun

show c

  1. show; a play, dance, or other entertainment.

Declension

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