Word Finder - casts

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An act of throwing.

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An instance of throwing out a fishing line.

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Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

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A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

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The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.

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The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

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He’s in the cast of Oliver.

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The casting procedure.

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The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

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An object made in a mould.

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The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

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A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

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The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

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The mould used to make cast objects.

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A plaster cast was made from his face.

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(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.

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A squint.

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Visual appearance.

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Her features had a delicate cast to them.

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The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

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a cast of mind, a mental tendency.

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An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.

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Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.

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A group of crabs.

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A broadcast.

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(physical) To move, or be moved, away.

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To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

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To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

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(social) To predict, to decide, to plan.

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To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

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To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.

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To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.

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To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.

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To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).

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To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.

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To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).

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To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

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Casting is generally an indication of bad design.

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Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.

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To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

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To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.

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To broadcast.

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The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.

Memon casts many down here.

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.

Although the state of North Carolina owns 70.3% of the stock (besides this Craven county holds 7.7%; Lenoir, 2.8%; and Pamlico county, 1.13%), the state casts only 35 o votes to the 700 of the private stockholders.

The calm confidence of their Moravian fellow-passengers amid the Atlantic storms convinced Wesley that he did not possess the faith which casts out fear.

Lord Elgin carried off to London, about 1801-1803, one of the columns of the east portico and one of the caryatides; these were replaced later by terra-cotta casts.

Wright of Beirut, casts were taken and the stones themselves sent to Constantinople by Subhi Pasha of Damascus.

Receiving thirty pieces of silver, he casts it into the temple treasury and breaks the staff " Union," i.e.

Indeed the prime value of the Shepherd is the light it casts on Christianity at Rome in the otherwise obscure period c. I10-140, when it had as yet hardly felt the influences converging on it from other centres of tradition and thought.

In addition to the museum of plaster casts, the Antiquarium (a collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities under the roof of the new Pinakothek) and the Maillinger collection, connected with the historical museum, Munich also contains several private galleries.

Through this temporary protection the active pupa, which closely resembles the mature insect, subsequently bites a way by means of its strong mandibles, and rising to the surface of the water casts the pupal integument and becomes sexually adult.

Phosphatic nodules and concretions, with phosphatized fossils and their casts, occur at various geological horizons in Great Britain.

The museum contains various valuable collections of curiosities, interesting mosaics, coins, casts, a library of 230,000 volumes, and valuable manuscripts.

The terrible tragedy which was consummated on the 23rd of May 1498 before the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence, casts a lurid light upon the irreconcilable opposition in which the wearers of the papal dignity stood to medieval piety; for Girolamo Savonarola was in every fibre a loyal son of the medieval Church.

The acetate and the citrate are valuable mild diuretics in Bright's disease and in feverish conditions, and by increasing the amount of urine diminish the pathological fluids in pleuritic effusion, ascites, &c. In tubal nephritis they aid the excretion of fatty casts.

Noteworthy also are the collection of the Society of Dutch Literature (1766); the collections of casts and of engravings; the seamen's training school; the Remonstrant seminary, transferred hither from Amsterdam in 1873; the two hospitals (one of which is private); the house of correction; and the court-house.

Within the city proper the Fitzroy Gardens are a network of avenues bordered with oak, elm and plane, with a " ferntree gully " in the centre; they are ornamented with casts of famous statues, and ponds, fountains and classic temples.

A collection of casts, likewise in the museum, is designed to display the progress of plastic art from the time of the Egyptians and Assyrians to modern ages.

This collection was begun by Raphael Mengs, who secured casts of the most valuable antiques in Italy, l 'some of which no longer exist.

At the rate of from 6 to to bushels to the acre it may be used on garden lawns to prevent worm casts.

He then casts it into its final form through a nozzle in the bottom of the casting ladle, as in the Bessemer process.

Of late years it has been found possible in many cases to take casts of the bodies found - a complete mould having been formed around them by the fine white ashes, partially consolidated by water.

Blende, is also found sporadically in sedimentary rocks; for example, in nodules of clay-ironstone in the Coal Measures, in the cement-doggers of the Lias, and in the casts of fossil shells.

His earnestness attracted the attention of Sir Henry Rawlinson, who permitted him the use of his room at the museum and placed the many casts and squeezes of the inscriptions at his disposal.

There is but one cloud in my sky at present; but that is one which casts a dark shadow over my life, and makes me very anxious at times.

Such casts are not infrequent in the Keuper marls and sandstones, and in the Purbeck beds of England.

At the end of 1845 they returned home, and the results of the expedition, consisting of casts, drawings and squeezes of inscriptions and scenes, maps and plans collected with the utmost thoroughness, as well as antiquities and papyri, far surpassed expectations.

For this reason they may be used for taking casts of anatomical specimens or making cliches from wood-blocks, the expansion on cooling securing sharp impressions.

Galvanoplastic casts of the famous Luneburg silver plate, consisting of 36 pieces which were acquired in 1874 by the Prussian government for 33,000 and are now housed in the art museum in Berlin, are exhibited here.

When an opaque body is placed between a screen and a luminous source, it casts a "shadow" on the screen.

Suppose, next, that the body which casts the shadow is a large one, such as a wall, with a hole in it.

Medusa-like casts have been found in the lower Cambrian of Scandinavia (Medusina) and in the mid-Cambrian of Alabama (Brooksella).

Annelids left their traces in burrows and casts on the sea-floor (Arenicolites, Cruziana, Scolithus, &c.).

Certain markings on slates and sandstones, such as the "fucoids" of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Phycoides of the Fichtelgebirge, Eophyton and other seaweed-like impressions, may indeed be the casts of fucoid plants; but it is by no means sure that many of them are not mere inorganic imitative markings or the tracks or casts of worms. Oldhamia, a delicate branching body, abundant in the Cambrian of the south-east of Ireland, is probably a calcareous alga, but its precise nature has not been satisfactorily determined.

One outstanding case, however, that of Dr Steward,' casts some suspicion on all the others.

The school conducted by this institute had a fine collection of casts, presented to the city by the government of France.

The lowest of its three floors contains the Egyptian museum; on the first floor plaster casts of ancient, medieval and modern sculpture are found, while the second contains a cabinet of engravings.

The Art Museum was erected and endowed (1899-1903) by Stephen Salisbury, and contains a fine collection of casts, many valuable paintings, and the Bancroft Collection of Japanese art.

The Royal Cork Institution (1807), in addition to an extensive library and a rare collection of Oriental MSS., possesses a valuable collection of minerals, and the collections of casts from the antique presented by the pope to George IV.

Nevertheless, in its dimmed and blackened state, the portrait casts an irresistible spell alike by subtlety of expression, by refinement and precision of drawing, and by the romantic invention of its background.

One of the most important is the museum, which contains about four hundred modern paintings, a large number of casts, a few pieces of original sculpture and a well-arranged collection of drawings and engravings.

On the one hand, there is the mode of preservation which gives rise to casts, moulds and generally impressions, exhibiting the superficial features of the specimen.

In many cases internal casts have been formed, some large cavity, such as a fistular pith, having become filled with mineral substance, which has taken the impress of the surrounding structures, such as the wood.

The common casts of Calamites are of this nature, representing the form of the hollow medulla, and bearing on their surface the print of the nodal constrictions and of the ridges and furrows on the inner surface of the wood.

Mistakes have often arisen from confusing these medullary casts with those of the stem as a whole.

Hence they must be brought into relation with the specimens preserved as casts or impressions, in order to gain a better conception of the plant as a whole.

The investigations of Nathorst, Williamson and others have shown that a very large proportion of the casts and impressions attributed to Algae had in all probability a totally different origin.

Casts surrounded by wood, with its structure preserved, have sometimes been found, and have established their true relations.

The position of the branches is shown both on casts and in petrified specimens, and has helped in their identification, while the petrified remains sometimes show enough of the external characters to allow of their correlation with impressions.

These distinctions can be recognized on petrified specimens, as well as on the casts, but their taxonomic value is somewhat doubtful.

The numerous described species of Lepidodendron are founded on the peculiarities of the leafcushions and scars, as shown on casts or impressions of the stem.