Cast

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gun \Gun\ (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin;
     cf. Ir., Gael., & 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,


        consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which
        the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge (such
        as guncotton or gunpowder) behind, which is ignited by
        various means. Pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, 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.
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              As swift as a pellet out of a gunne
              When fire is in the powder runne.     --Chaucer.
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              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.
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     2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
        cannon.
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     3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
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     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}.
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     {Armstrong gun}, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
        after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
     {Big gun} or {Great gun}, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence
        (Fig.), a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big
        guns to tackle the problem.
  
     {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 ester
        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. In earlier
        models, such as the {Gatling gun}, the cartridges were
        loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. In modern
        versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by
        levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the
        bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel.
        Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such
        weapons, 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Uzziah prepared . . . slings to cast stones. --2
                                                    Chron. xxvi.
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              Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. --Acts.
                                                    xii. 8.
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              We must be cast upon a certain island. --Acts.
                                                    xxvii. 26.
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     2. To direct or turn, as the eyes.
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              How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me! --Shak.
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     3. To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
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     4. To throw down, as in wrestling. --Shak.
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     5. To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.
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              Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.
                                                    --Luke xix.
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     6. To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
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              His filth within being cast.          --Shak.
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              Neither shall your vine cast her fruit. --Mal. iii.
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              The creatures that cast the skin are the snake, the
              viper, etc.                           --Bacon.
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     7. To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
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              Thy she-goats have not cast their young. --Gen. xxi.
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     8. To throw out or emit; to exhale. [Obs.]
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              This . . . casts a sulphureous smell. --Woodward.
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     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.
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     10. To impose; to bestow; to rest.
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               The government I cast upon my brother. --Shak.
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               Cast thy burden upon the Lord.       --Ps. iv. 22.
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     11. To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.]
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               The state can not with safety cast him.
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     12. To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a
         horoscope. "Let it be cast and paid." --Shak.
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               You cast the event of war, my noble lord. --Shak.
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     13. To contrive; to plan. [Archaic]
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               The cloister . . . had, I doubt not, been cast for
               [an orange-house].                   --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     14. To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict;
         as, to be cast in damages.
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               She was cast to be hanged.           --Jeffrey.
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               Were the case referred to any competent judge, they
               would inevitably be cast.            --Dr. H. More.
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     15. To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to
         make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.
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               How much interest casts the balance in cases
               dubious!                             --South.
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     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.
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     17. (Print.) To stereotype or electrotype.
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     18. To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play
         among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
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               Our parts in the other world will be new cast.
                                                    --Addison.
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     {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 {To cast one's self 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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cast \Cast\ (k[.a]st), v. i.
     1. To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
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     2. (Naut.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind
        in getting under weigh.
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              Weigh anchor, cast to starboard.      --Totten.
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     3. To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as,
        to cast about for reasons.
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              She . . . cast in her mind what manner of salution
              this should be.                       --Luke. i. 29.
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     4. To calculate; to compute. [R.]
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              Who would cast and balance at a desk. --Tennyson.
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     5. To receive form or shape in a mold.
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              It will not run thin, so as to cast and mold.
                                                    --Woodward.
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     6. To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
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              Stuff is said to cast or warp when . . . it alters
              its flatness or straightness.         --Moxon.
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     7. To vomit.
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              These verses . . . make me ready to cast. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cast \Cast\,
     3d pers. pres. of {Cast}, for Casteth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cast \Cast\, n. [Cf. Icel., Dan., & Sw. kast.]
     1. The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
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     2. The thing thrown.
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              A cast of dreadful dust.              --Dryden.
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     3. The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown. "About
        a stone's cast." --Luke xxii. 41.
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     4. A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
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              An even cast whether the army should march this way
              or that way. --Sowth.
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              I have set my life upon a cast,
              And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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     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.
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     6. The act of casting in a mold.
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              And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. --Shak.
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     7. An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person;
        amold; a pattern.
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     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.
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     9. Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of
        countenance. "A neat cast of verse." --Pope.
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              An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure.
                                                    --Prior.
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              And thus the native hue of resolution
              Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
                                                    --Shak.
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     10. A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
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               Gray with a cast of green.           --Woodward.
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     11. A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage;
         specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch]
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               We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to
               the next stage.                      --Smollett.
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               If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     12. The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
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     13. (Falconary) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go
         at one time from the hand. --Grabb.
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               As when a cast of falcons make their flight.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     14. A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.]
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               This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his
               information was wholly false.        --Swift.
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     15. A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance;
         squint.
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               The cast of the eye is a gesture of aversion.
                                                    --Bacon.
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               And let you see with one cast of an eye. --Addison.
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               This freakish, elvish cast came into the child's
               eye.                                 --Hawthorne.
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     16. A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
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     17. Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at
         once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
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     18. Contrivance; plot, design. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  881 Moby Thesaurus words for "cast":
     Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Platonic form, Platonic idea, a thing for,
     abandon, abdicate, about ship, account, achromatism,
     acting company, actor, add, address, adhesive tape, aesthetic form,
     affinity, age group, aggregate, aim, air, algebraize, amount,
     animus, antagonist, antihero, application, appoint, aptitude,
     aptness, archetype, aroma, arrange, arrangement, art form,
     assemble, assembled, assign, attribute, back and fill, badge, band,
     bandage, bandaging, barf, battalion, be confined, bear,
     bear a child, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, bear young,
     bearing, beat, beat about, bent, bevy, bias, binder, bit, bit part,
     blaze, blink, block out, blood, blueprint, body, body-build,
     boot out, born, bounce, bowl, box off, box score, brace, brand,
     break, breed, brigade, bring about, bring round, bring up,
     broadcast, bronze, brow, build, built, bullion, bunch, bung, burn,
     burn in, burn off, button, cabal, cachet, calculate, calve, calved,
     cant, cant round, carriage, carve, cashier, cast about, cast aside,
     cast at, cast away, cast of characters, cast of countenance,
     cast off, cast out, casting, cataplasm, catapult, cauterize,
     change course, change of pace, change the heading, change-up, char,
     character, characteristic, characteristics, characters, chart,
     chase, chisel, choose, chorus, chromatism, chromism, chuck,
     chuck at, chuck out, chunk, cipher, circus troupe, clan, clap,
     class, clique, coal, cohort, color, color balance, color harmony,
     color scheme, coloration, coloring, come about, company,
     complement, complexion, compose, composition, compound, compress,
     compute, conatus, concert, concoct, conduciveness, configuration,
     conformation, constituents, constitution, construct, constructed,
     contingent, contrive, convergent strabismus, corps,
     corps de ballet, coterie, cotton, count, countenance,
     court plaster, covey, crack, crafted, crap, craps, crasis, cravat,
     create, created, crew, cross-eye, cross-eyedness, crowd, cue,
     cupel, curve, custom, custom-built, custom-made, cut, cut out,
     dart, dash, decorator color, deep-six, defenestrate, delegate,
     delight, demeanor, denomination, description, design, designate,
     designation, desquamation, detachment, detail, detrude, devise,
     dharma, diathesis, die, difference, differentia, differential,
     discard, discharge, disgorge, dismiss, disperse, dispose of,
     disposition, distinctive feature, distribute, ditch, divide,
     division, doff, dope out, double a point, downcurve,
     dramatis personae, dressing, drive out, drop, dropped, dump,
     eagerness, earmark, eccentricity, efform, eight, eighty-six, eject,
     elaborate, elastic bandage, eleven, eliminate, engrave, ensemble,
     epithem, erect, esotropia, estimate, ethos, evict, evolve, exclude,
     exile, exotropia, expel, expression, extract roots, extracted,
     extrude, exuviae, exuviate, fabricate, fabricated, face,
     facial appearance, faction, farrow, fashion, fashioned, fastball,
     fat part, favor, fawn, feather, feature, features, feeder,
     feeling for, fetch about, fiber, figuration, figure, figure in,
     figure out, fire, fire at, first string, first team, five, fix,
     flame, flash, flavor, fleet, fling, fling at, flip, foal, foaled,
     foot, forecast, foretelling, forge, forged, fork, form, formalize,
     format, formation, formed, formulate, formulation, forward pass,
     found, four-tailed bandage, frame, fudge together, gang, garb,
     gate, gathered, gauze, genius, genre, genus, get quit of,
     get rid of, get shut of, get up, give away, give birth,
     give the hook, given birth, giving birth, glance, gleam, glimpse,
     go about, grain, grave, group, grouping, groupment, grown, guise,
     gust, gybe, habit, half an eye, hallmark, handcrafted, handmade,
     harvested, hatched, have, have a baby, have young, heave, heave at,
     heave out, heave round, heavy, hero, heroine, heterotropia, hew,
     hint, homemade, homespun, hue, humor, humors, hurl, hurl against,
     hurl at, hurtle, idea, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, impress,
     impression, in-group, inclination, incline, incurve, index, indite,
     individualism, ingenue, ingot, inner form, insculpture, intaglio,
     intend, intimation, irregularity, jerk, jettison, jibe,
     jibe all standing, jilt, junk, junta, key, keynote,
     kick downstairs, kick out, kidney, kin, kind, kitten, knead,
     knock out, knuckleball, label, labor, lamb, lance, last, lateral,
     lateral pass, launch, lay, lay out, lay plans, layout, lead,
     lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, leaning,
     leave, let fly, let fly at, level, liability, lick,
     lick into shape, lie in, liking, line, lineaments, lines, lint,
     lister, litter, lob, look, look for, looks, lot, machine-made,
     machined, made, made to order, make, make a projection,
     make arrangements, make up, makeup, man-made, manner, mannerism,
     manufacture, manufactured, marble, mark, marking, maroon, matrix,
     mature, measure, mental set, methodize, mettle, mien, milled, mind,
     mind-set, mined, mint, miss stays, mob, mobile, modality, mode,
     model, mold, molded, molding, molt, mould, movement, multiply,
     name, natural, natural color, nature, nee, negative, newborn, nick,
     nine, nominate, number, obtrude, odor, on, organize, oust,
     out-group, outcurve, outfit, oxidate, oxidize, pack, pallor, parch,
     part, part with, particularity, party, pass, patch together,
     pattern, peculiarity, peek, peep, peer group, peg, pelt, penchant,
     person, personage, persuasion, phalanx, phylum, physiognomy,
     physique, pick, piece, piece together, pig, pitch, pitchfork, plan,
     plan ahead, plank, plaster, plaster cast, platoon, pledget, plop,
     plump, plunk, ply, point, port, posse, posture, poultice,
     prearrange, predilection, predisposition, prefab, prefabricate,
     prefabricated, preference, prejudice, prepare, presence, prevision,
     probability, processed, proclivity, produce, product, prognosis,
     prognostication, program, project, proneness, propensity, property,
     prophecy, protagonist, prototype, puke, punch, pup, put, put about,
     put back, put out, put the shot, put together, put up, pyrolyze,
     quality, quantity, quick sight, quirk, race, raise, raised,
     rapid glance, rationalize, readiness, ready-for-wear, ready-formed,
     ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, rear, reckon, reckoning,
     refined, regiment, regulus, reject, relinquish, remove,
     repertory company, reserves, role, roll, roller, roller bandage,
     rough out, roughcast, roughhew, round a point, rowing crew,
     rubber bandage, run up, salon, savor, scatter, schedule,
     schematize, scintilla, scorch, score, scrap, screwball, sculp,
     sculpt, sculpture, seal, sear, search for, second string,
     second team, seek, select, send, sensitivity to, serve, service,
     set, set up, shade, shadow, shape, shaped, shed, sheer,
     sheet metal, shift, shipwreck, shoe last, shot, shot-put, shy,
     shy at, side, significant form, singe, singularity, sinker, sip,
     skin color, slant, slap, slew, slider, sling, sling at, slough,
     smack, smattering, smell, smelted, snap, soft spot, solder,
     somatotype, sort, soubrette, soupcon, sow, spark, specialty,
     species, spew, spirit, spitball, spitter, splint, sponge,
     sprinkling, squad, squinch, squint, squiz, stabile, stable, stamp,
     stance, statue, stillborn, stock company, strabismus,
     straight part, strain, streak, string, stripe, structure, stupe,
     style, subtract, suchness, suggestion, sum, summate, summation,
     sup, supporting cast, supporting character, supporting role,
     surrender, susceptibility, suspicion, swerve, swing round,
     swing the stern, swinge, system, systematize, tack, tailor, taint,
     take account of, tale, tally, tampon, tang, tape, taste, team,
     temper, temperament, template, tendency, tenor, tent, terra cotta,
     the bottom line, the like of, the likes of, the story,
     the whole story, thermoform, third string, thought, throw,
     throw about, throw at, throw away, throw off, throw out,
     throw over, throw overboard, throw up, thrust, thrust out, tilt,
     tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, title role, token, tone, torrefy,
     toss, toss at, toss out, toss overboard, tot, total, tote, touch,
     tourniquet, trace, train, trait, traits, travail,
     triangular bandage, tribe, trick, troop, tropism, troupe, turn,
     turn back, turn of mind, turn out, twist, type, undercolor,
     upchuck, upcurve, upward strabismus, variety, varsity, veer, vein,
     vesicate, villain, visage, vulcanize, walk-on, walking part,
     walleye, warp, way, weakness, wear, wear ship, weird, weld,
     well-built, well-constructed, well-made, whelp, whelped, whole,
     whomp up, willingness, wind, wing, wink, work, work out, work up,
     write, x number, yaw, yean, yield
  
  

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

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       Computer Aided Software Testing
       
       

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

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       Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares (cryptography)
       
       

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

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          {Computer Aided Software Testing}
       
       

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

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          {explicit type conversion}