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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Cast \Cast\ (k[.a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cast; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Casting.] [Cf. Dan. kaste, Icel. & Sw. kasta; perh. akin
     to L. gerere to bear, carry. E. jest.]
     1. To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to
        impel.
  
              Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. --2
                                                    Chron. xxvi.
                                                    14.
  
              Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. --Acts.
                                                    xii. 8.
  
              We must be cast upon a certain island. --Acts.
                                                    xxvii. 26.
  
     2. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
  
              How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! --Shak.
  
     3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
  
     4. To throw down, as in wrestling. --Shak.
  
     5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
  
              Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
                                                    --Luke xix.
                                                    48.
  
     6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
  
              His filth within being cast.          --Shak.
  
              Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. --Mal. iii.
                                                    11
  
              The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the
              viper, etc.                           --Bacon.
  
     7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
  
              Thy she-goats have not cast their young. --Gen. xxi.
                                                    38.
  
     8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
  
              This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. --Woodward.
  
     9. To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to
        cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
  
     10. To impose; to bestow; to rest.
  
               The government I cast upon my brother. --Shak.
  
               Cast thy burden upon the Lord.       --Ps. iv. 22.
  
     11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
  
               The state can not with safety cast him.
  
     12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a
         horoscope. ``Let it be cast and paid.'' --Shak.
  
               You cast the event of war, my noble lord. --Shak.
  
     13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
  
               The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for
               [an orange-house].                   --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
  
     14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict;
         as, to be cast in damages.
  
               She was cast to be hanged.           --Jeffrey.
  
               Were the case referred to any competent judge, they
               would inevitably be cast.            --Dr. H. More.
  
     15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to
         make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
  
               How much interest casts the balance in cases
               dubious!                             --South.
  
     16. To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal
         or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as,
         to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
  
     17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
  
     18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play
         among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
  
               Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
                                                    --Addison.
  
     To cast anchor (Naut.) See under Anchor.
  
     To cast a horoscope, to calculate it.
  
     To cast a horse, sheep, or other animal, to throw with
        the feet upwards, in such a manner as to prevent its
        rising again.
  
     To cast a shoe, to throw off or lose a shoe, said of a
        horse or ox.
  
     To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to
        reject as useless or inconvenient.
  
     To cast away.
         (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.
  
     To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw
        away.
  
     To cast down, to throw down; to destroy; to deject or
        depress, as the mind. ``Why art thou cast down. O my
        soul?'' --Ps. xiii. 5.
  
     To cast forth, to throw out, or eject, as from an inclosed
        place; to emit; to send out.
  
     To cast in one's lot with, to share the fortunes of.
  
     To cast in one's teeth, to upbraid or abuse one for; to
        twin.
  
     To cast lots. See under Lot.
  
     To cast off.
         (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.
  
     To cast off copy, (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.
  
     To cast one's self on or upon to yield or submit one's
        self unreservedly to, as to the mercy of another.
  
     To cast out, to throw out; to eject, as from a house; to
        cast forth; to expel; to utter.
  
     To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to
        the bottom.
  
     To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of
        disease. [Obs.].
  
     To cast up.
         (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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Cast \Cast\,
     3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Cast \Cast\, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.]
     1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
  
     2. The thing thrown.
  
              A cast of dreadful dust.              --Dryden.
  
     3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. ``About
        a stone's cast.'' --Luke xxii. 41.
  
     4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
  
              An even cast whether the army should march this way
              or that way. --Sowth.
  
              I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the
              hazard of the die.                    --Shak.
  
     5. That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the
        skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the
        excrement of a earthworm.
  
     6. The act of casting in a mold.
  
              And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak.
  
     7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person;
        amold; a pattern.
  
     8. That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or
        copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a
        casting.
  
     9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of
        countenance. ``A neat cast of verse.'' --Pope.
  
              An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
                                                    --Prior.
  
              And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied
              o'er with the pale cast of thought.   --Shak.
  
     10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
  
               Gray with a cast of green.           --Woodward.
  
     11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage;
         specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch]
  
               We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to
               the next stage.                      --Smollett.
  
               If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
  
     12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
  
     13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go
         at one time from the hand. --Grabb.
  
               As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.]
  
               This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his
               information was wholly false.        --Swift.
  
     15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance;
         squint.
  
               The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
                                                    --Bacon.
  
               And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison.
  
               This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's
               eye.                                 --Hawthorne.
  
     16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
  
     17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at
         once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
  
     18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     A cast of the eye, a slight squint or strabismus.
  
     Renal cast (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.
  
     The last cast, the last throw of the dice or last effort,
        on which every thing is ventured; the last chance.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Cast \Cast\, v. i.
     1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
  
     2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind
        in getting under weigh.
  
              Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.      --Totten.
  
     3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as,
        to cast about for reasons.
  
              She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution
              this should be.                       --Luke. i. 29.
  
     4. To calculate; to compute. [R.]
  
              Who would cast and balance at a desk. --Tennyson.
  
     5. To receive form or shape in a mold.
  
              It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
                                                    --Woodward.
  
     6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
  
              Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters
              its flatness or straightness.         --Moxon.
  
     7. To vomit.
  
              These verses . . . make me ready to cast. --B.
                                                    Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir.,
     Gael.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L.
     canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
     mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
     1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
        any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the
        explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel
        closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with
        an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various
        means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are
        smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms.
        Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance,
        fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these
        terms in the Vocabulary.
  
              As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in
              the powder runne.                     --Chaucer.
  
              The word gun was in use in England for an engine to
              cast a thing from a man long before there was any
              gunpowder found out.                  --Selden.
  
     2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
        cannon.
  
     3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
  
     Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
           manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore,
           breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or
           built-up guns; or according to their use, as field,
           mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
  
     Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
        after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
     Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a
        person superior in any way.
  
     Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun.
  
     Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
        moved.
  
     Gun cotton (Chem.), a general name for a series of
        explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
        cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
        formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
        results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
        burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
        and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
        Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
        insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
        highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and
        cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
        somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
        with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
        making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun
        cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose.
        It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric
        acid.
  
     Gun deck. See under Deck.
  
     Gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
        is fired.
  
     Gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
        copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
        also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
  
     Gun port (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
        cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
  
     Gun tackle (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
        side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
        the gun port.
  
     Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
        single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
  
     Krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
        after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
  
     Machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
        mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
        reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
        gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in
        volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several
        hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim.
        The Gatling gun, Gardner gun, Hotchkiss gun, and
        Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the
        French mitrailleuse, are machine guns.
  
     To blow great guns (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n.,
        3.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :


  cast
       adj : (of molten metal or glass) formed by pouring or pressing
             into a mold
       n 1: the actors in a play [syn: cast of characters, dramatis
            personae]
       2: container into which liquid is poured to create a given
          shape when it hardens [syn: mold, mould]
       3: the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of
          this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: mold, stamp]
       4: the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate
          cast of his features" [syn: form, shape]
       5: bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster
          of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
          [syn: plaster cast, plaster bandage]
       6: object formed by a mold [syn: casting]
       7: the act of throwing dice [syn: roll]
       8: the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by
          means of a rod and reel [syn: casting]
       9: a violent throw [syn: hurl]
       v 1: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the
            corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a
            spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, contrive,
             throw]
       2: deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"
       3: select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie,
          musical, opera, or ballet; "He cast a young woman in the
          role of Desdemona"
       4: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle]
       5: assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast
          this beautiful movie?"
       6: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
          search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the
          woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The
          cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from
          one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
          [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam,
          ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
       7: form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or
          mold; "cast a bronze sculpture" [syn: mold, mould]
       8: get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your
          clothes" [syn: shed, cast off, shake off, throw, throw
          off, throw away, drop]
       9: choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots" [syn: draw]
       10: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put
           it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite
           language" [syn: frame, redact, put, couch]
       11: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
           drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
           continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave
           him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, sick,
            cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke,
            barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
            throw up] [ant: keep down]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :


  CAST
       
          Computer Aided Software Testing

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :


  cast
       
          explicit type conversion

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :


  CAST
       Computer Aided Software Testing

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) :


  CAST
       Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares (cryptography)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary :


  Cast
  
  ممثلون

From English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary :


  cast
  
  bacanje, bacati, baciti, lijevan, lijevana, lijevanih, lijevano željezo, lijevati, odbaciti