Cast: Definition and part of speech

Cast

  1. imp. & p. p. of Cast
  2. v. t. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
  3. v. t. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
  4. v. t. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
  5. v. t. To throw down, as in wrestling.
  6. v. t. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
  7. v. t. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
  8. v. t. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
  9. v. t. To throw out or emit; to exhale.
  10. v. t. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
  11. 1imp. & p. p. 1 of Cast
  12. 1v. t. 1 To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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