cast | Lernwerd

Forms

1.To move, or be moved, away.
- Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.
- Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.
- You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.
2.To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.
- She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement[…].
- But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.
3.To predict, to decide, to plan.
- The director cast the part carefully.
- The government I cast upon my brother.
- The director cast John Smith as King Lear.
4.To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
- I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.
- They cast it up and found it agreed with the printed balance-sheet.
- The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

1.An act of throwing.
2.The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
3.An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success.
4.Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *kas-

Proto-Germanic *kastōną

Old Norse kastabor.

Middle English casten

English cast

From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.