Upcast

Word UPCAST
Character 6
Hyphenation up cast up cast
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Upcast"

What do we mean by upcast?

Directed or thrown upward. adjective

Something cast upward. noun

A ventilating shaft, as in a mine. noun

To cast or throw up.

Cast up: a term used in bowling.

Thrown or turned upward; directed up: as, upcast eyes.

The act of casting or hurling upward, or the state of being cast upward; also, that which is cast upward; an upthrow. noun

In bowling, a cast; a throw. noun

In mining, the shaft or passage of any kind through which the air is taken out of a mine; the out-take: the opposite of downcast (which see) and downtake. noun

An upward current of air passing through a shaft or the like. noun

The state of being overturned; an upset. noun

A taunt; a reproach. noun

A cast; a throw. noun

The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft. noun

An upset, as from a carriage. noun

A taunt; a reproach. noun

To cast or throw up; to turn upward. transitive verb

To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. transitive verb

Cast up; thrown upward. adjective

Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. - Joseph Addison. adjective

A cast; a throw.

The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.

A current of air passed along such a shaft.

An upset, as from a carriage.

A taunt; a reproach.

A cast from subtype to supertype.

A message transmitted via upcasting.

Talking highly of yourself, name dropper, wanking on.... Urban Dictionary

To use a gift or favour once done for someone else as a way of insulting them. Urban Dictionary

To get the upperhand on auditions by auditioning straight from your phone. Instantly submit live photos and videos directly to casting directors. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Upcast

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The word "upcast" in example sentences

Poirot walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Belgium's hearts and hands. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Working from the text and his imagination, the self-taught and self-destructive Williams contributed 159 drawings, from cartoonish thumbnails to the introductory full-page rendering of Tom that presented him in an almost pre-Raphaelite aura: wreathed in curls, with full lips and unfocused upcast eyes. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Objects accepted are predefined and you don't need to upcast and downcast. ❋ Chris Jobling (2004)

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In various enchanted attitudes like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast. ❋ Unknown (2002)

In the faint upcast light of the courtyard lamps, he saw her in parts - a cheek's curve, her lips sharp as a carving. ❋ Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- (1981)

Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nowhere have these drains been carried through the houses, but they are taken directly into drains at the back, having specially ventilated manholes and being brought through at the ends of terraces into the road sewers; the ventilating openings in the roads have been converted into inlet ventilators by placing upcast shafts at short intervals, discharging above the houses. ❋ Various (N/A)

With her eyes upcast to heaven, down she sank upon the ground, ❋ Various (N/A)

Here is the _contadina_, who is always praying at a shrine with upcast eyes, or lifting to the Virgin the little child, among whose dark curls, now lying tangled in her lap, she is on a vigorous hunt for the animal whose name denotes love. ❋ Various (N/A)

Round about the bed shafts of the mine, the downcast and the upcast, a little space was held voluntarily clear and half a dozen men in coaly flannels were standing there. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

They were carried on the crest of the wave clean through the airway, borne some distance upwards in the upcast, and were there floated on to the floor of a skip, where they were found insensible, but living, some hours later. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

Every mine has what is known as an 'upcast shaft' -- a perpendicular tunnel which runs side by side with the working shaft, and is connected with it at the foot by an airway which serves to ventilate the workings. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

But it seemed to Paul Harley that his face, dimly illuminated by the upcast light from the lamp upon the coffee table, had paled, had become gaunt. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

Every star upcast a spear and hurled it down to smite. ❋ William Rose Ben��t (1918)

But there was not one of them whose eyes were not upcast at Zuleika. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

[Katrina] - "She is always [upcasting] herself it makes me [sick]!" ❋ Scotty The Hottie (2012)

[Friend A] - "I gave you the top you're wearing, [the least] you can do is wash my car". Friend B - "If I knew you'd start [upcasting] it when you gave me it I wouldn't have accepted it" ❋ Mackem09 (2021)

"I'm over sitting in LA traffic and waiting in lines all day just for [the impossible] chance of getting a [callback]." "What is this 2015? I [audition] and book roles while I work my day job. Get UpCast, dude." ❋ Lt17 (2017)

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