CAST


Meaning of CAST in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be cast in a mould (= be very like something )

He didn't want to be cast in the mould of being an academic.

cast (a) gloom over sth (= make people feel sad )

His ill health had cast a gloom over the Christmas holidays.

cast a spell (on sb) (= do some magic )

Suddenly everyone froze, as if a wizard had cast a spell on them.

cast adrift

Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .

cast down

She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down.

cast iron

cast light (= send light onto something )

the gold circle of light cast by the lamp

cast sb in a role written (= give someone a role, especially one they do not want )

He found himself cast in the role of guide and translator.

cast sb in a role (= give them a role )

Television producers would not cast her in lead roles.

cast your vote (= vote in a political election )

Harkin won 74 percent of the votes cast.

cast...ballots

Only 22% of voters cast their ballots .

casting aspersions on

No one is casting aspersions on you or your men, Major.

casting vote

cast...slur on (= criticize )

How dare she cast a slur on my character?

cast/throw a glance (= look quickly )

She cast a shy glance toward Shelby.

cast/throw a shadow (= make it appear )

The building cast a shadow across the narrow street.

cast/throw doubt on sth (= make people unsure about something )

Research has cast doubt on the safety of mobile phones.

central casting

Wearing black shoes and a pinstripe suit, he looked like central casting’s idea of the perfect civil servant.

die casting

plaster cast

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks.

They began casting about for an alternative.

Frantically he cast about , searching the ground.

Finally mustering the courage to act, Blue reaches into his bag of disguises and casts about for a new identity.

Cupped the small flame with a trembling hand. Cast about for a taper.

The constitution prohibits him from staying another, so he is casting about for ways to hold on to power.

He cast about desperately for something to say.

In April, about 30 frustrated human resources managers met to discuss their staffing woes and cast about for solutions.

around

So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this, in a very poor state of repair.

Again she began casting around for help.

He's casting around trying to find a way of presenting himself that's different from his past life.

The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search.

We can adapt our theories, or cast around for fresh ones, to suit our intuitions.

He cast around for somewhere to put them, and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant.

After casting around a little, he appointed Chamberlain himself in Davidson's place.

aside

We should now cast aside all the political rhetoric of the campaign.

It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success.

Every impediment to flight was cast aside .

Everything else was cast aside , beginning with even elementary care over arrangements to get there on the night.

University officials have displayed no sense of moral obligation toward a female student cast aside in the rush to pander to Phillips.

That is my point: you have cast aside the probability of future happiness on a whim.

Yet the problems are not of such proportions that hope has been cast aside .

away

Let Marion be reminded of what she had cast away .

Leaders are either recast or cast away .

A time to gather stones together, a time to cast away stones.

down

He was exasperated, but not cast down .

Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.

It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down .

The slaves rose and backed out of the chamber, their eyes cast down .

Back at Cultra, Jessica Roberts was also cast down .

It is rising so high that makes us afraid, he thought, lest we fall or are cast down .

He cast down monsters and destroyed Chaos warriors with a word.

Women cast down , on whom life had left its mark, were to him sisters under the skin regardless of station.

off

You then knit one or two rows and cast off .

Endued with evenness of mind, one casts off in this very life both good deeds and evil deeds.

Knit 1 row and cast off in same manner.

Women are casting off minimalism, starting at the accessory level.

One who would speak your name and seeks to know the woman in you! Cast off the glooms.

Guests were encouraged to cast off their inhibitions.

Luis, it's high time you were off watch! Cast off!

She had cast off the lines.

out

In 1st century palatine those who were lepers were literally cast out of society.

He received the aged Oedipus whom everyone else had cast out .

The boat is rowed slowly round the lough whilst an angler sitting in the stern casts out at right angles.

The routine, in fact, is tedious. Cast out .

Have you nothing to say to me, cast out here like a leper?

The thugs and wreckers have been cast out .

As a result she is cast out by society and some members of her family.

■ NOUN

back

He racked his brains, he cast his mind back .

Again, more in control of matters, he cast his mind back .

Oliver cast the occasional glance back .

ballot

Pupils will cast their ballot papers in mock polling booths before school and at morning break on the day.

The majority of eligible voters said they would rather not cast ballots , leading to the worst percentage voter turnout since 1924.

He praised the smooth running of the election, and denied reports that people had been forced to cast their ballots .

Of more than 1, 300 people registered by Hermandad last year, nearly 800 reportedly cast ballots Nov. 5.

But the only real problem was controlling the crowds of voters pressing forward to cast their ballots .

Just four Republicans cast ballots for some one other than Gingrich, six short of the number needed to block his selection.

Less than half the potential voters bothered to cast their ballot .

Less than half of the voting-age population cast a ballot in November.

cloud

Armagh's injury worries cast a cloud over their preparations and Fermanagh could mount a smash and grab raid this time.

Nice touches include steam vents that cast lingering clouds over the courses and new audio cues to warn of danger.

The housing directory will help bridge this gap - although the proposed legal aid cuts do cast a cloud over this.

die

Four days later Truman cast the die .

doubt

They have also cast doubt on his client's character by implying there's been some sort of fraud.

Yet the history of the bathhouse closures in the mid eighties casts strong doubt on this assertion.

Today's report must cast real doubt on the degree to which that is now in prospect.

In the final section, I will begin to cast some doubt on the terms in which the debate has been set.

However, developers have cast doubt on whether the funds available are sufficient and reach the areas of greatest need.

Both studies cast doubt on individuals' awareness of tax changes and therefore suggest a low labour response.

Journalists and diplomatic sources, however, cast doubt on the government's version.

Such questions cast serious doubts on the likelihood of to having no meaning in these uses.

eye

He cast a professional eye over the report.

Bruises cast shadows around his eyes and nose.

And cast your eye to the mantelpiece.

And I in turn cleared my throat and cast my eyes downward, away from hers.

Gurder cast an apprehensive eye over his shoulder.

The professor shrugged, casting an eye over Davide's good jacket, to inform him that his information was unnecessary.

He also casts his eye over the proposed law changes.

The less pubescent diner can cast a detached eye on this ritual from six Formica-topped tables inside the tiny deli-restaurant.

glance

As Rose left she cast a meaning glance at Gabriel, but she did not speak.

He cast a genial glance at one of his apprentices.

They cast furtive glances at one another.

I was playing with her as usual and casting furtive glances at her six heavy gold bangles.

John le Grant sat with the others, casting a glance at the pitcher as he passed.

As he passed through he cast one last glance behind him to assure himself he was free of pursuers.

What had become of the suspicious anti-warrior of the sixties, casting reproachful glances at the Temple University computer center?

iron

The hull contained a mass of dissimilar metals: steel, cast and malleable iron , brass. bronze and lead.

A kitchen appliance part today injection-molded from plastic then would have been cast from iron .

Traditional fender and cast iron canopy in a choice of two trim finishes: black or brass.

They were heavy consumers of iron , cast iron and steel.

Cannons are cast from iron or bronze and are built into solid carriages.

He designed and made wooden copies of machinery parts to be cast in iron and steel in sand molds.

The rainwater goods, a mixture of plastic, asbestos and cast iron were fit for the scrap heap.

But cast iron had severe limitations.

lead

He cast Nicholson in the lead role and all he needed was a female.

The pre-filming budget had gone up to the then astronomical sixteen million dollars with Tyrone Power cast in the lead .

light

Isabel raised her left hand and peered at the ring in the dim light cast by the clock-candle burning near the bed.

Then it was drawn into the light cast by a battery of exterior spot lamps.

Standing all day on the wet clay floor under the dropping ceiling in the faint light cast by tallow candles was grim.

There was a new moon, and its pale light cast soft shadows in the stillness.

Most low-voltage lights cast a localised beam or a diffused glow.

Even in the dim, flickering light cast by the fire Guy saw all the colour wash out of her face.

The dull light cast thick shadows in the small room where her brother-in-law had worked.

Downstairs Madeleine's hair flamed in the gold circle of light cast by the lamp.

look

She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt.

As the baby grew older, she cast an envying look at pink.

All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.

A few days after my gift was discovered, Milagros cast me a worried look at dinner.

Snyde came closer, reached out a paw and touched Whillan's flank strangely, casting a lingering look at it.

Hattie Johnson cast an unthinking look at Ezra, her nine-year-old boy.

He automatically steps into the room, casting a melodramatic look over his shoulder.

lot

Hence the casting of lots in choosing between the two men.

Phil Gramm of Texas have now cast their lot with Buchanan.

The Reagan administration had cast its lot with the power companies.

mind

I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport.

She fingered the notes, casting her mind forward.

Let us cast our minds back to the referendum.

As she cast her mind about, she realized that there might be something she was especially fitted for.

He cast his mind back to his homecoming earlier that evening.

He racked his brains, he cast his mind back.

Again, more in control of matters, he cast his mind back.

Time and again, she had cast her mind back to before Maisie was lost in that tragic fire.

net

But this festival casts its net beyond the musical world.

They subsequently directed their personnel officials to cast a wider net when searching for potential employees.

One possibility seems to be that s.61 was intended to cast a wider net of liability than s.62.

The network has to cast a wide net for this talent.

It is clearly possible that we are not casting our net sufficiently wide.

I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.

pall

Few people were talking and the silence of night cast its pall over the city.

But news of a major management bloodletting, impending layoffs and a possible takeover cast a pall over the festivities.

Lessard tries to show that the sins of Stanford White cast a moral pall over the White clan.

But it had cast a pall that had still not lifted.

percent

Kerekou won by an unsurprisingly huge margin: 86 percent of the valid votes cast compared with 16 percent for Amoussou.

In the Sunshine state, residents over age 60 cast about 40 percent of the vote.

Of the votes cast 7 percent were null or void.

role

The Falcons have been cast in the role of curtain-raisers and will open the show on both days.

Deronda resents being cast in the role of listener and mentor.

In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model.

Once cast in the role of Guardian of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, a scientist ceases to be scientific.

After all Meredith was not alluding to her, any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar.

Doctors such as geriatricians and psychiatrists have been cast in the role of fixers and gatekeepers to protect the institutions.

No longer are local authorities cast in the role of protectors of unpopular, run-down schools.

Where else will you be cast in the role of a dolphin?

shadow

Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers.

Minutes later, I could see the tent shadows cast by Jeep headlights dancing across the side of the Huey.

The ever-present shadow cast by Camilla merely served to throw fuel on the flames.

Every twenty seconds their elongated selves were flung before him, their shadows cast down by the lighthouse beam.

The encounter he now saw as an omen, a shadow cast by a coming event.

How successful it is and how widely seen it is determines how long a shadow it casts and for how much time.

Nothing changed except the power of the sun and the angle of the shadows it cast .

The present is the mouse running from the shadow the hawk casts on the earth, and sometimes it escapes.

spell

Roll a dice after each spell is cast .

And again, louder, as if breaking a spell or casting one: Olppajin-saram.

What was this spell he was casting - and how could she ever hope to be free of it?

I thought that, if we were to meet again, he would remove the spell that he had cast over me.

She is afraid you are waking from her spell , casting it off.

The next day, a woman came up to me and asked what sort of spell I had cast on her husband.

Many spells may be cast to create creatures which attack the enemy.

stone

His killer had rifled his wallet before casting the stone into the stream.

Rather, remain calm, let Mailer be Mailer, refrain from casting stones and you will be rewarded.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone , I may be hearing you say.

A time to gather stones together, a time to cast away stones.

vote

In a typical United Kingdom five-member constituency 250,000 votes might be cast .

Its unintended effect was also to crush a succession of much less well-prepared Republican hopefuls before a single vote had been cast .

The outcome of the election is, at least in simple majority systems, a direct arithmetic consequence of the individual votes cast .

But neither is a vote he wishes to cast .

But he still only just squeaked home, by a margin of 47,080 votes out of 1.9m cast .

In order to be elected, a constituency candidate needs only a plurality of the votes cast .

The number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire vote cast for the winner in the 1980 presidential contest.

voter

But the only real problem was controlling the crowds of voters pressing forward to cast their ballots.

Its voters first cast ballots by mail on a state housing initiative in 1993.

Less than half the potential voters bothered to cast their ballot.

Stephanopoulos turned thirty-one as New Hampshire voters cast their primary ballots.

Some middle-class voters have supported the Labour Party and about one-third of working-class voters have traditionally cast their ballots for Conservative candidates.

By contrast, 11, 000 voters cast early ballots in the recent Super Tuesday presidential primaries.

It is surely a fundamental principle of fair elections that all voters should cast the same kind of vote.

In one Daleycontrolled precinct, a commentator remembers, 54 voters managed to cast 84 votes.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be written/set/cast in tablets of stone

cast/spread your net wide

Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.

I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.

It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.

Later that afternoon the police, who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin's Field, spread their net wider.

We cast our net wider and in a different direction.

cast/throw pearls before swine

draw/cast lots

It is a curious turn around from the days when bondholders pleased to be bought out and were driving to drawing lots !

She took it thoughtfully like some one choosing a straw when drawing lots .

The players alternate between the white and black pieces and draw lots to determine who plays white in today's first game.

Then we drew lots to decide the order in which we should improvise, night by night.

They also took turns administering the city-state, drawing lots to settle who would take on which job.

They drew lots to decide which should first seize his lady, and fortune favored Ephialtes.

Was it to be done by casting lots ?

run/cast your eye over sth

A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft, pronto, for inaccuracies.

Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters.

And of course Prince also casts his eye over rock too.

He also casts his eye over the proposed law changes.

I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.

The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.

They've even invited Michael Heseltine, care of Spitting Image, to cast his eyes over the exhibition.

the casting couch

the die is cast

throw in/cast your lot with sb/sth

All you have to do is throw in your lot with me.

At the next meeting of the Unionist Cabinet Ministers Boscawen threw in his lot with me.

Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.

I suppose we are right to throw in our lot with them.

Like Dudley Williams, Jamison threw in her lot with Alvin early on, at the start of her career.

She threw in her lot with the Jowles.

The Dance caught on everywhere, and eventually Sitting Bull himself threw in his lot with the shakers.

throw/cast caution to the winds

Anything less truly would be throwing caution to the winds.

My friends and their little daughter went splashing blithely in so I threw caution to the winds and followed.

The two of us threw caution to the winds and raced to the rescue.

throw/shed/cast light on sth

Newly found Aztec artifacts may shed some light on their mysterious culture.

A fretful wind was not enough to open them and shed light on the ruptured earth in which they lay.

An analysis of the results should shed light on the workings of the Northern Ireland labour market.

Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions.

He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity, and indeterminacy to comment on free will.

In addition, the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities' changing economic roles.

Owing to the small sample size, the results can only be expected to shed light on the trends.

Therefore they shed light on the comparative institutional questions with which we are concerned.

This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Cast your line across the current and upstream.

In the tomb they found a statue of a horse cast in bronze.

Sparks leaped as more wood was cast onto the fire.

The meat industry complained that the nutrition chart cast its products in an unfavorable way.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After the artist's death 28 examples were cast in bronze, only 11 of which now remain in private hands.

But his style casts a dark shadow over the material, rendering it claustrophobic.

Participants will be helped to identify their own angry inner bums, and cast those barriers aside.

Phil Gramm of Texas have now cast their lot with Buchanan.

The same approach can be used where the shade is cast by a wall, fence or building.

This sent them on their way without having to trouble too much over casting about for tracks.

You see everybody casts their tuppence worth into the pool but nobody details the route to a better future.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

entire

The cold air is made even more apparent by the swift footwork when the entire cast jump lightly upwards away from the ground.

The entire cast -- 23 actors portraying inmates portraying fictional characters based on real ones -- inhabit the stage simultaneously.

The entire cast took a step forward.

large

Her large supporting cast never really comes to life, and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow.

Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.

A large cast of characters acts as her chorus.

Its high quality came from the brilliant device of having the story told by a large cast of characters.

In Catal Huyuk, women slept on large platforms facing cast , towards the rising Sun.

With greatly expanded backstage facilities, the company can do shows with larger casts .

original

Our thanks are due to the original cast for the creation of these offstage characters.

strong

This kind of action needs precise timing and director Mike Alfreds and his 14 strong cast provide the elegantly energetic execution required.

Artistic Director Barbara Oliver has done more than put together a strong cast .

Covent Garden field a strong cast , especially Rene Kollo's marvellous Max.

Southern poverty also continues to show a strong racial cast .

supporting

A supporting cast of special guest bands is currently being finalised.

Her large supporting cast never really comes to life, and she allows too many strangely unfocused interruptions to her narrative flow.

The supporting cast , especially Danny Glover and Gregory Hines, are also superb.

talented

The musical numbers were excellently performed by an extremely talented cast .

However, funny things do happen on the peripheries of the lame story, particularly from the talented supporting cast .

■ NOUN

ensemble

Despite some good acting from the ensemble cast , the characters slip into the stereotypes needed to establish the political debate.

Big Apple is a classic crime drama with an ensemble cast .

iron

The system, he used to say, was like cast iron , rather than steel.

Start with a five-hundred pound piece of cast iron sitting on the floor.

At worst... well, you have to remember the hammer had a cast iron head weighing several pounds.

Engine parts were made from cast iron .

Two tons of cast iron or more.

Bea heard the cast iron bell fastened to the front door and went to see who it was.

It looked like a cast iron person whose head had been cut off.

The big cast iron range had been picked up and carried out and set down there by eight men.

plaster

Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.

One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved.

■ VERB

head

Mike Myers heads the cast of this spy spoof.

Meeker, Maxine Cooper and Gaby Rodgers head the cast .

include

An all-star cast includes Orson Welles and George Sanders.

join

We went on the air in October 1986 and Kylie joined the cast about four months into the series.

Every day on stage at Cinderella Castle, returning visitors join a cast of 75 characters and entertainers in a musical revue.

They will soon be working again, when Whoopi joins the cast of Cheers.

Cameron Diaz has joined the cast as a woman stalking Cruise.

support

He is supported by a wonderful cast which graces a movie that deserves the label of epic.

Both Sheffield and Thomas enjoy stronger Triple Crown chances this season because of improvements in their supporting cast .

He benefits, too, from an outstanding supporting cast .

The rest of the supporting cast ranges from adequate to uncomfortable.

In this he is supported by a flawless cast .

However, funny things do happen on the peripheries of the lame story, particularly from the talented supporting cast .

The series started off a few years ago with a different name and a different supporting cast .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be written/set/cast in tablets of stone

cast/spread your net wide

Furse spread his net wide, but it did not sink deep.

I cast my net wide enough to find parents who vary from house cleaner to fashion designer to electrician to corporate manager.

It was argued in Chapter 2 that the criminal law ought to spread its net wider where the potential harm is greater.

Later that afternoon the police, who had been diligently searching certain caravans on Turpin's Field, spread their net wider.

We cast our net wider and in a different direction.

cast/throw pearls before swine

draw/cast lots

It is a curious turn around from the days when bondholders pleased to be bought out and were driving to drawing lots !

She took it thoughtfully like some one choosing a straw when drawing lots .

The players alternate between the white and black pieces and draw lots to determine who plays white in today's first game.

Then we drew lots to decide the order in which we should improvise, night by night.

They also took turns administering the city-state, drawing lots to settle who would take on which job.

They drew lots to decide which should first seize his lady, and fortune favored Ephialtes.

Was it to be done by casting lots ?

run/cast your eye over sth

A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft, pronto, for inaccuracies.

Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters.

And of course Prince also casts his eye over rock too.

He also casts his eye over the proposed law changes.

I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.

The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.

They've even invited Michael Heseltine, care of Spitting Image, to cast his eyes over the exhibition.

the die is cast

throw in/cast your lot with sb/sth

All you have to do is throw in your lot with me.

At the next meeting of the Unionist Cabinet Ministers Boscawen threw in his lot with me.

Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.

I suppose we are right to throw in our lot with them.

Like Dudley Williams, Jamison threw in her lot with Alvin early on, at the start of her career.

She threw in her lot with the Jowles.

The Dance caught on everywhere, and eventually Sitting Bull himself threw in his lot with the shakers.

throw/cast caution to the winds

Anything less truly would be throwing caution to the winds.

My friends and their little daughter went splashing blithely in so I threw caution to the winds and followed.

The two of us threw caution to the winds and raced to the rescue.

throw/shed/cast light on sth

Newly found Aztec artifacts may shed some light on their mysterious culture.

A fretful wind was not enough to open them and shed light on the ruptured earth in which they lay.

An analysis of the results should shed light on the workings of the Northern Ireland labour market.

Geographical comparison of patterns of lawbreaking sometimes throws light on more general differences in social and economic conditions.

He uses relativity to throw light on time and eternity, and indeterminacy to comment on free will.

In addition, the research is expected to shed light on the social consequences of cities' changing economic roles.

Owing to the small sample size, the results can only be expected to shed light on the trends.

Therefore they shed light on the comparative institutional questions with which we are concerned.

This may shed light on Soviet views of such zones.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Films like 'Ben Hur' were made with a cast of thousands.

Mandy has to have her arm in a cast for six weeks.

McIntosh's work consists of plaster casts of the artist's own face.

The cast includes Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith.

The entire cast of the play deserves praise for this performance.

The granite columns give a pinkish cast to the base of the building.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And the cast is fairly strong.

Combined with the near-sleepwalking tendencies of the cast , this rendering offered few hair-raising moments on the vocal Richter scale.

Given a great script and cast , Steven Soderbergh is unsurpassed as a storyteller.

The recipes come from an all-star cast of contributors, each a specialist in his or her own right.

Why don't you have a cast ?

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