cast off

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To discard or reject something.

   “However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.”

2. fiil To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
3. fiil To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
4. fiil To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.

   “To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.”