different between recast vs precast

English

Etymology

From re- +? cast.

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: r?-käst', r?-k?st', IPA^(key): /?i??k??st/, /?i??kæst/
• • Rhymes: -??st, -æst
• (noun) enPR: r?'käst, r?'k?st, IPA^(key): /??i?k??st/, /??i?kæst/

Verb

recast (third-person singular simple present recasts, present participle recasting, simple past and past participle recast)

1. To cast or throw again.
2. To mould again.

3. To reproduce in a new form.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p.33:

     Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts [transl. umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.

4. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
   • 2002, Robert C. Allen, To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World, Routledge ?ISBN, page 153

     According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]

5. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (actors) to different roles.

Noun

recast (plural recasts)

1. The act or process of recasting.
2. (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

Anagrams

• Cartes, Caster, Cestar, acters, carest, carets, cartes, caster, caters, crates, creats, racest, reacts, rescat, reäcts, traces

English

Etymology

pre- +? cast

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?i?kæst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?i??k??st/
• Rhymes: -æst, -??st
• Hyphenation: pre?cast

Adjective

precast (not comparable)

1. Cast previously in another location.

   The bridge used precast concrete girders.

Antonyms

• cast-in-place

Noun

precast (countable and uncountable, plural precasts)

1. Structural members made of concrete, ready for installation.

Verb

precast (third-person singular simple present precasts, present participle precasting, simple past and past participle precast)

1. To cast in a location other than where to be installed.

Anagrams

• CatSper, carpest, carpets, cepstra, preacts, spectra