cast

Examples

• All

• Yeah, he'll have to wear that cast for a couple months until his vertebrae heal, but as you can see, he doesn't seem to mind so much.

  The Unbreakable Boy (2025)

• I sat back down on the bed and lifted the heavy cast up with both hands.

  Fiction book (1993)

• And the cast is on his left leg.

  Double Indemnity (1944)

• According to this, your cast can probably come off in two more days.

  Fiction book (1994)

• I was laying down in the back seat with a cast on my leg.

  Megyn Kelly

• Broke his ankle, so they made a cast that looked like a shoe.

  Into the Flames (2021)

• This cast is beginning to itch.

  Hearts of the West (1975)

• I came home from school one day and saw my father laid on a couch with a cast from his hip to his ankle.

• One week postoperatively, the patient was placed in a cast with the interphalangeal joint free for five weeks.

  Academic text (2015)

• He is wearing a cast on his right arm to help it heal after the fracture.

Synonyms

P

plaster cast

vscast

• Specialized

3 3.1

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

is similar but can also be made from fiberglass rather than only plaster

P

plaster bandage

vscast

• Specialized

1 3.5

A cloth strip with a wet white paste that becomes hard to hold a broken bone still

is a preformed rigid shell rather than one formed from soaked gauze

Antonyms

R

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

Idioms

C

to cast the first stone

• Literature

6 7.7

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

C

to cast a pall

4 8.2

Make a meeting or event feel gloomy and sad

C

to cast a shadow

4 6.2

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

C

to cast a wider net

3 4.2

To look in more places to find someone or something

C

to cast a chill

8.2

Make people feel uneasy, disappointed or uncomfortable

C

to cast bread upon the waters

• Archaic

9.9

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

C

cast in concrete

6.7

Fixed and not able to be changed

C

to cast in someone's teeth

• Informal

9.9

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

C

to cast pearls before swine

• Literature

9.5

To give something valuable to people who do not appreciate it

C

to cast up one's accounts

• UK

9.3

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

Compounds

C

cast of characters

14 3.4

A group of actors who perform in a play or film

C

cast iron

• Specialized

12 3.7

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

P

plaster cast

• Specialized

3 3.1

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

C

cast-off

1 4.5

A thing, often clothing, that someone has thrown away

C

Caucasian cast

6.9

A group of actors who are mostly white

C

cast-iron plant

7.2

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

A

alloy cast iron

• Specialized

6.0

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

L

leaf cast

9.9

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

N

needle cast

• Specialized

7.9

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

S

soft-cast steel

• Specialized

5.1

Steel with very little carbon that is easy to shape

How Rigid

cast

• Specialized

84 3.5

splint

• Specialized

12 5.3

brace

85 4.0

sling

14 3.7

bandage

126 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology