Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
👥 Group of actors ➡️ To throw or send 🎭 To assign roles 🗳️ To submit a vote 🦴 A hard cover ⚒️ To shape by pouring 🧥 To remove 🎲 To choose randomly 📺 To stream media 🙂 Shape or form 🗿 A shaped object 🤢 To vomit 🧊 A mold container 🎣 Throwing a line 🏹 A strong throw 🎲 Throwing dice
cast

cast

7 6.7
A mold used to shape liquid until it becomes hard
  • noun
  • /kæst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : molde
  • "I know you made a cast of Lucy's thumb in rubber.

Examples

  • Make resin casts of all the boot prints.

    The General's Daughter (1999)

  • The artist created complex sculptures by making intricate casts from molds.

  • Two types of pipes appeared most frequently in his collection: hand-blown glass and cast glass.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Get the pictures and casts of footprints.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The museum is having casts made of bones from real Triceratops back feet and plans to send them out for scanning.

    Academic text (2000)

  • After the liquid metal was poured, we waited for the cast to solidify into a beautiful statue.

  • The doctor explained that the cast would protect her broken arm while it healed.

Synonyms

mold
vscast
  • US
77 3.8

A container that gives shape to food like jelly

is limited to containers for pouring liquid that then solidify
form
vscast
  • Specialized
9 6.8

A frame that holds wet concrete until it hardens

applies to containers for pouring any liquid that later solidifies

Idioms

to cast the first stone
  • Literature
6 7.7

To be the first to criticize someone when you have the same fault

to cast a pall
4 8.2

Make a meeting or event feel gloomy and sad

to cast a shadow
4 6.2

Make a person, event, or situation seem less happy and less hopeful

to cast a wider net
3 4.2

To look in more places to find someone or something

to cast a chill
8.2

Make people feel uneasy, disappointed or uncomfortable

to cast bread upon the waters
  • Archaic
9.9

Do something kind without expecting anything back, hoping it helps later

cast in concrete
6.7

Fixed and not able to be changed

to cast in someone's teeth
  • Informal
9.9

To hurt someone by reminding them of an embarrassing thing they did

to cast pearls before swine
  • Literature
9.5

To give something valuable to people who do not appreciate it

to cast up one's accounts
  • UK
9.3

To add up the money someone gets and spends to find the total

Compounds

cast of characters
14 3.4

A group of actors who perform in a play or film

cast iron
  • Specialized
12 3.7

A very hard but brittle metal made by melting iron and pouring it into molds

plaster cast
  • Specialized
3 3.1

A hard shell of plaster that keeps a broken bone still while it heals

cast-off
1 4.5

A thing, often clothing, that someone has thrown away

Caucasian cast
6.9

A group of actors who are mostly white

cast-iron plant
7.2

A very hardy houseplant that has long green leaves and needs little care

alloy cast iron
  • Specialized
6.0

A type of cast iron made by adding other metals to make it stronger and resist wear

leaf cast
9.9

A disease of evergreen trees like pines that makes their needles fall early

needle cast
  • Specialized
7.9

A disease of pine and spruce trees that makes their needles turn brown and fall early

soft-cast steel
  • Specialized
5.1

Steel with very little carbon that is easy to shape

Surface Forms

cast singular
casts plural

Etymology

Cast meaning the container or mold comes from the same casting idea, because it is the place into which material is poured to make a shape. So a cast can be the mold that gives an object its form.