cast : Idioms & Phrases

• a slight squint or strabismus.

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• noun cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment
  alloy iron.
  

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• noun the single-handed rod casting of a relatively heavy (artificial) bait
  

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• verb search anxiously
  beat about; cast about.
  

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• verb secure a vessel with an anchor
  anchor; drop anchor.
  
  • We anchored at Baltimore

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• verb search anxiously
  beat about; cast about.
  

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• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; put away; discard; toss out; toss away.
  
  • Put away your worries

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• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; put away; discard; toss out; toss away.
  
  • Put away your worries

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• verb lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  depress; dispirit; dismay; deject; demoralise; get down; demoralize.
  
  • These news depressed her
  • The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her

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• noun an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting
  

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Cast" i`ron

Definitions

1. Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

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• noun the actors in a play
  cast; dramatis personae.
  

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• verb get rid of
  shake off; shed; throw away; throw off; drop; cast; throw.
  
  • he shed his image as a pushy boss
  • shed your clothes
• verb make the last row of stitches when knitting
  

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• verb make the first row of stitches when knitting
  

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• verb expel from a community or group
  ostracize; blackball; shun; ban; ostracise; banish.
  
• verb throw or cast away
  dispose; cast aside; throw away; fling; toss; cast away; chuck out; throw out; put away; discard; toss out; toss away.
  
  • Put away your worries

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Cast" steel"

Definitions

1. See Cast steel, under Steel.

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• adjective satellite extremely robust
  iron.
  
  • an iron constitution

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Cast"-i`ron adjective

Definitions

1. Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.

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• noun evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
  aspidistra; Aspidistra elatio; bar-room plant.
  

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• adjective satellite thrown away
  discarded; thrown-away; throwaway.
  
  • wearing someone's cast-off clothes
  • throwaway children living on the streets
  • salvaged some thrown-away furniture

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Cast"-off` adjective

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1. Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

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• noun making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn
  drawing lots; sortition.
  

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• noun the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve a tie
  

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• a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

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• adjective satellite formed by forcing molten metal into a die
  
  • a die-cast seal

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• noun casting an artificial fly as a lure
  

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• noun a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
  needle blight; leaf cast.
  

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• articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

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• noun a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall
  needle blight; leaf cast.
  

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• noun bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
  cast; plaster bandage.
  

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• a copy of an object obtained by pouring plaster of Paris mixed with water into a mold.

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• (Med.), microscopic bodies found in the urine of persons affected with disease of the kidneys; so called because they are formed of matter deposited in, and preserving the outline of, the renal tubes.

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• . (Med.) See under Cast, and Colic.

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• verb pour molten metal into a mold of sand
  

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• noun steel with less than 0.15% carbon
  mild steel; low-carbon steel.
  

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• the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand.

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• noun casting (artificial) bait far out into the ocean (up to 200 yards) with the waves breaking around you
  surf fishing.
  

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• the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

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• the last throw of the dice or last effort, on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.

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• to calculate it.

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• to throw with the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its rising again.

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• to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox.

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• to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest.
• (Naut.) Se under Anchor.

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• to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient.

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• . (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak.

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• to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away.

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• to throw down; to destroy; to deject or depress, as the mind. "Why art thou cast down. O my soul?" Ps. xiii. 5.

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• to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed place; to emit; to send out.

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• to share the fortunes of.

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• to upbraid or abuse one for; to twin.

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• to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with.

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• to use or throw a die, or some other instrument, by the unforeseen turn or position of which, an event is by previous agreement determined.

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• . (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope.

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• (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages.

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• to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak.

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• to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to. as to the mercy of another.

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• to throy out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter.

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• (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the botton.

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• (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. Obs..

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• . (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute; to reckon, as the cost. (c) To vomit. (d) To twit with; to throw in one's teeth.

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