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

to cast

191 5.3

To officially give a vote in an election

verb
/kæst/

: votar

Two weeks later, he went to the polls and cast his vote for Lincoln.
cast votes
cast ballots
voters cast

Shane please open your eyes and cast your vote to evict.

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Examples

So please cast your final vote.
Over nine million people in Florida have cast their vote tonight.

Citizen Verdict (2003)
Am I too late to cast my vote?

Mystery Men (1999)
I want to cast a vote.

Lincoln (2012)
Follow me to my place and cast your ballot.
Votes cannot be cast after the polls are closed.
Efforts were made to ensure that votes were cast secretly, counted, and reported honestly.

Academic text (1990)
No previous candidate had captured over half the valid votes cast in a presidential election.

Academic text (1994)
About 400 ballots were cast in that election.

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Over nine million people in Florida have cast their vote tonight.

Synonyms

to vote

vsto cast

911 1.0

To approve something by a group's official decision at a meeting

is about depositing or submitting choices rather than internal approval

to go to the polls

vsto cast

Literature

40 3.0

To vote in an election

focuses on the act of formally submitting a choice not the travel

to cast your vote

vsto cast

13 3.1

Give your choice in an election or official decision

is the shorter verb used for the same formal depositing action

to poll

vsto cast

5 3.2

To cast a vote in an election

refers to formal depositing without stressing location

to ballot

vsto cast

1 3.7

To vote in secret to choose a person or decide something

does not imply secrecy and means formal submission generally

Antonyms

to retract

Formal

41 6.0

To take back a statement or opinion in public

Idioms

to cast a shadow

13 6.2

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

to cast the first stone

Literature

8 7.7

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

to cast a wider net

7 4.2

To look in more places to find someone or something

to cast a pall

4 8.2

Make a meeting or event feel gloomy and sad

to cast pearls before swine

Literature

1 9.5

To give something valuable to people who do not appreciate it

to cast bread upon the waters

Archaic

1 9.9

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

cast in concrete

1 6.7

Fixed and not able to be changed

to cast a chill

1 8.2

Make people feel uneasy, disappointed or uncomfortable

to cast in someone's teeth

Informal

1 9.9

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

to cast up one's accounts

9.3

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

Phrasal Verbs

to cast out

50 6.2

Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them

to cast a spell

Literature

37 7.4

Use words or actions to make a magical change

to cast off

28 4.8

To get rid of something you do not want or need

to cast doubt

23 4.6

Make people feel unsure if something is true

to cast aside

Informal

17 3.7

Reject or ignore people and things you no longer want

to cast your vote

13 3.1

Give your choice in an election or official decision

to cast away

10 4.1

To throw away things you no longer want

to cast about

4 7.2

To look around or think hard to find something you need

to cast around

1 5.6

To look in a worried way for an idea or solution

to cast down

1 6.3

To make someone feel sad or discouraged

to cast loose

1 6.7

To free something by letting go of ties or limits

to cast off

Jargon

1 8.2

To finish the last row of knitting so the stitches do not come undone

to cast the net

1 3.2

Throw a fishing net into the water to catch fish

to cast on

Jargon

1 6.9

To make the first row of stitches on a needle when you start knitting

to cast anchor

1 3.1

To lower an anchor from a boat or ship to hold it in place

to sand cast

Specialized

1 6.6

Make a metal object by pouring liquid metal into a sand mold

to cast one's mind back

6.3

Think about something that happened in the past to remember it

Compounds

cast iron

Specialized

29 3.7

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

cast of characters

17 3.4

A group of actors who perform in a play or film

plaster cast

Specialized

5 3.1

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

cast-off

2 4.5

A thing, often clothing, that someone has thrown away

Caucasian cast

1 6.9

A group of actors who are mostly white

cast-iron plant

1 7.2

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

needle cast

Specialized

1 7.9

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

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

soft-cast steel

Specialized

5.1

Steel with very little carbon that is easy to shape

Surface Forms

cast infinitive

cast past

cast past participle

casting present participle

casts third person singular

Etymology

Cast a vote comes from the same old idea 'to throw', like 'throwing' your ballot into a box as a formal action. So to cast your vote is to put your vote in officially.