Upcasting

The roguish upcasting of starry eyes, and the deprecating little manner, tied my tongue for the instant. ❋ Edwin Carlile Litsey (1922)

A wave, higher than any they yet had had to ride, came boiling down upon them ... and twisting, writhing, upcasting imploring arms to the elements -- the implacable elements -- a girl, a dark girl, entwined, imprisoned in silken garments, swept upon its crest! ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

There was no roadway, as it seemed no pathway at all up the overhanging cliffs-ridges of granite and grey and green rock, belted with mist, crowned by sun, and fretted by the milky, upcasting surf. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Uncle Rob, our dandy, had changed his coat and put on a new neckcloth, an act which, as all who know a Scots farm town will understand, cost him a multitude of flouts, jeers and upcasting from his peers. ❋ Unknown (1887)

If a member function is virtual, then when you send a message to an object, the object will do the right thing, even when upcasting is involved. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An object-oriented program contains some upcasting somewhere, because that's how you decouple yourself from knowing about the exact type you're working with. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We call this process of treating a derived type as though it were its base type upcasting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus, casting to a base type is moving up the inheritance diagram: "upcasting." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Across the gray distances one fancies now and then to have seen the first stray flakes of snow, and in some old street, between tall, gray houses leaning backward, sidewise, each after its fashion -- as some girl, pale, with shawl wrapped about her shoulders, hurries past with a quick upcasting of dark eyes, one thinks of Mimi and the third act of "La ❋ Arthur Ruhl (1905)

[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)