CAST

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To throw.

   “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[…].”

2. fiil To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

   “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. fiil To throw down or aside.

   “So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]”

4. fiil To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
5. fiil To shed leaves or fruit prematurely.
6. fiil To remove, take off (clothes).

   “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[…].”

7. fiil To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
8. fiil To vomit.

   “These verses[…]make me ready to cast.”

9. fiil To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

   “Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.”

10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

    “To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.”

12. fiil To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

    “To what this ten years' tribute will amount, That we have cast, but cannot compass it By reason of the wars, that robb'd our store”

13. fiil To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

    “he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.”

14. fiil To plan, intend.

    “[...] for the quene had cast to haue ben ageyne with kyng Arthur at the ferthest by ten of the clok / and soo was that tyme her purpoos. [...] "for the queen had cast to have been again with King Arthur at the furthest by ten of the clock, and so was that time her purpose."”

15. fiil To assign (a role in a play or performance).

    “The director cast the part carefully.”

16. fiil To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

    “The director cast John Smith as King Lear.”

17. fiil To describe in an opinionated way. Mostly used with a metaphor involving light.

    “King John cast his predecessor in a negative light to deflect criticism of his own questionable decisions.”

18. fiil To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

    “to cast about for reasons”

19. fiil To impose; to bestow; to rest.

    “The government I cast upon my brother.”

20. fiil To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

    “to be cast in damages”

21. isim An act of throwing.
22. isim The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
23. isim An instance of throwing out a fishing line.

    “I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.”

24. isim Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

    “a cast of scatter'd dust”

25. isim A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

    “The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.”

26. isim The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

    “He’s in the cast of Oliver.”

27. isim The casting procedure.

    “The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.”

28. isim An object made in a mould.

    “The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.”

29. isim A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

    “The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.”

30. isim The mould used to make cast objects.

    “A plaster cast was made from his face.”