casting
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈkæstɪŋ/
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transmisión
- You know how that guy goes around healing everyone from all sorts of illnesses and casting demons away?
Examples
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Just as casting has failed at times, it has also worked.
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It's not like you have one pet to tank while other pets are behind it healing and casting.
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OK, a wet finger, wet finger casting that activates the screen.
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Effects of Casting
Academic text (2006) -
I will leave the casting out of evil spirits to the professionals; I'm not trained to do it and would never attempt it on my own.
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However, it does not provide functions for other operations such as addition, multiplication, or casting to integer formats.
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Perry Eckert would give anything to spend his summer playing Creatures and Caverns, an epic role-playing game rich with magical creatures, spell casting, and deadly weapons.
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These will allow certain civilian and police uses (e.g., a hovering camera used in search and rescue operations, or a seed-casting RPV for gardening and farming)
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Streaming content to your TV through casting allows you to enjoy it on a larger screen.
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With casting, you can easily play music from your phone on your home speakers.
Idioms
- Informal
Looks exactly like the kind of person chosen to play a role in a film or show
Compounds
- Offensive
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7.7
Asking for sex from someone who wants an acting job in return for a role
- Archaic
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7.6
A way of choosing by picking small things like straws or stones so the result is random
- Specialized
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5.2
The use of a special rod and line to throw a small fake fly into water to catch fish
- Specialized
A way of fishing from the shore by throwing bait or a lure into the sea beyond the waves
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Casting comes from the same root as English cast, which originally meant 'to throw'. A helpful way to remember the tech sense is to imagine 'throwing' a video from your phone to the TV, because casting sends audio or video from one device to another.