Casting

What do we mean by casting?

The act or process of making casts or molds. noun

Something cast in a mold. noun

The act of throwing a fishing line or net. noun

Something cast off or out. noun

A piece of excrement produced by an earthworm. noun

The selection of actors or performers for the parts of a presentation. noun

Plural The pellets of hair and bones cast up by owls and hawks. noun

A premature shedding or falling of leaves which may be due to any one of various causes, but especially to drought, crowding of plants, or the attacks of parasitic fungi. See Lophodermium. noun

In the fine arts, the arrangement of draperies and accessories. noun

In agriculture, replowing old ‘ridges’ or ‘lands,’ with all the furrows of each in one direction. By this method two adjoining ridges are made into a single broad one, the crown occupying the place of the old water-furrow; or each retains its form, the water-furrow being kept clear. noun

The act or process of founding. noun

In the fine arts, the process of taking casts or impressions of statues, medals, etc., in clay, pitch, plaster, or fused metal. noun

That which as been cast, or formed by running melted metal into a mold of any desired form. When used without qualification, the word usually denotes a casting of iron. noun

Anything appearing as if cast in a mold; specifically, a string-shaped mass of earth voided by an earthworm; a worm-cast. noun

Vomiting; vomit. noun

Same as cast, 18. noun

A purge consisting of pellets of hemp, cotton, feathers, or the like, given to hawks. noun

Contrivance; distribution; arrangement. noun

In sail-making, the calculated dimensions and shape of each cloth in a sail. noun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

To broadcast.

Words that are spelled similarly to casting:
casting, casing, lasting, fasting, coasting, easting, costing, tasting, pasting, basting, wasting, castling, carting, catting, castine, canting, cashing, hasting, masting, gasting.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word casting:
castings, mold, molten, molding, audition, mould, alloys, extras, foundry, spells, eastenders, actors, doubt, plaster, wax, cast, spell, filming, shadows, metals, ballot, vote, sand, call, director, choices, roles, actor, role, producers, metal, shadow, actress, bronze, process, soap, announcement, script, calls, technique, sculpture, statue, character, fly, announced, agent.

Words that rhyme with casting:
everlasting, lasting, broadcasting, fasting, blasting, contrasting, forecasting, podcasting, recasting, typecasting, masting, golden everlasting, mountain everlasting, swan river everlasting, pearly everlasting, winged everlasting, outlasting, cascade everlasting, weather forecasting, brass tongue, fast tongue.

Adjectives that are often used to describe casting:
continuous, die, bronze, centrifugal, central, single, type, fly, serial, solid, rough, hollow, finished, main, heavy, final, metal, conventional, permanent, bait, perfect, false, original, actual, surf, direct, solvent, chill, piece, separate, sound, shaped, malleable, accurate, cylindrical, thin, iron, blind, bad, broad, successful, pressure, dental, sand, horizontal, narrow, concrete, rotational, line, double, light, top, ray, defective, gray, ideal, vertical, lot, subsequent, nontraditional, explicit, massive, bottom, flexible, smooth.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective casting:
machine, process, alloys, rod, technique, method, reel, rods, reels, industry, equipment, plant, lines, line, outfit, technology, operation, object, out, molds, mold, die, light, practice, nets, dies, operations, algorithm, foundry, tray, lights, plants, objects, metals, gear, company, procedure, moulds, metal, purposes, design, vote, off, shop, material, apparatus, unit, earthworms, business, interface, approach, outfits, pit, production, plaster, device, foundries, furnace, bulk, mechanism, weight, lures, experiment, machines, tournaments, workshop, ceremony, lesions, factory, ability, engine, rig, game, aluminum, tournament, spider, yard, counter, stand, spotlight, shops, stroke, manufacture, experiments, lessons.

Consonant match to casting:
coasting, costing, kersting, kesting.

Words that sound like casting:
casting, coasting, costing, kasten, caston, casten, castille, costin, catting, castings, cast on, ghosting, gusting, castile, guesting, custom, costen, casta, koston, coston, kissing, costume, cutting, cussing, coating, casing, keystone, gaston, keating, questing, kirstin, kiting, cresting, kerstin, accosting, crusting, kitting, casin, casto, kasim, kassim, canting, costain, costive, key stone, cassin, coting, costings, kasin, cosseting, lasting, fasting, coastal, hosting, gassing, castel, hasting, costal, hoisting, husting, gustin, castell, heisting, gatting, kostal, kastel, hastin, yeasting, kestel, kostel, costa, kirsten, casm, kosta, cason, caton, kassem, kersten, casson, capstan, caxton, kasen, catton, katon, kasson, cassian, custa, katten, kista, costage, kasm, castillo, casteel, cashing, captin, carting, capstone, caching, cacheing, cap stone.