cast – English noun declension

English noun forms of cast

Noun: cast
Singularcast
Pluralcasts

Sample Sentences

  • I went out on the timber boom and made a few casts, but with little success. [1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:]
  • a cast of scatter'd dust [1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts.
  • He’s in the cast of Oliver.
  • The cast was praised for a fine performance.
  • The men got into position for the cast, two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
  • The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
  • The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
  • A plaster cast was made from his face.
  • As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […] [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • Louis XIV was keen, employing a total hawking personnel of 175 and adding a fourth cast of gyrfalcons to hunt hares in 1682 […]. [2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2013, page 395:]
  • The form of perch which I have found in every way suited to ordinary requirements, especially where only a cast of hawks (two) is kept, is that figured opposite. [1884, James Edmund Harting, Hints on the Management of Hawks, Horace Cox, page 8https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hints_on_the_Management_of_Hawks/yntEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22cast+of+hawks%22&pg=PA8&printsec=frontcover:]
  • The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him. [1847, John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, p. 389, paragraph 1968]
  • Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you. [2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 7:]
  • Her features had a delicate cast to them.
  • Using a tungsten-balanced film outdoors results in a blue cast to the photo. [2004, Betsy Brill, Photojournalism: The Professional's Approach, page 240:]
  • He stared down at his champagne glass with narrowed eyes and a hard cast to his mouth. [2007, Lindsay Armstrong, The Australian's Housekeeper Bride, page 78:]
  • The cast of mind which prompted the plan was permanent, and in it are to be found both the strength and the weakness of Petty's character. [1894, Wilson Lloyd Bevan, Sir William Petty : A Study in English Economic Literature, page 40:]
  • Young Wilcox’s rejoinder, which impressed my uncle enough to make him recall and record it verbatim, was of a fantastically poetic cast which must have typified his whole conversation, and which I have since found highly characteristic of him. [1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC:]
  • I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united. [1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 330:]
  • The brahmin's cast is higher than any other cast. [1821, Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, volumes 12-16, page 160:]
  • Some days, the whole cast of crabs would come out of their holes and ponder at the Fishers as if a storm is taking form. [2023, Sunil Santha, Climate Change, Small-Scale Fisheries, and Blue Justice: Fishscapes and Alternative Worldviews, Taylor and Francis:]
  • In the crevices of the rock wall that buttresses the pool, a cast of crabs go about their crab business. [2023, Nadine J. Cohen, Everyone and Everything, Pantera Press:]
  • A cast of blue crabs weathered the underwater turbulence by clinging to coral with their claws. [2011, J. E. Bright, Deepwater Disaster, Stone Arch Books:]
  • Coordinate term: hundred
  • At Cromer and the neighbourhood the crabs are counted by a peculiar standard: thus, two crabs are counted as one. The two crabs being called a cast, six score cast of crabs is called a hundred. At Cromer, therefore, a hundred crabs is two hundred and forty. [1876, “The Crab and Lobster Fisheries of Cromer”, in The Nautical Magazine, Cambridge University Press, page 197:]
  • Cast is the measurement of the central line of the gun and the stock’s butt. If the butt is tilted slightly to the left of the central line, it’s called “cast on.” If the butt is tilted slightly to the right of the central line, it’s called “cast off.” [Savage Arms, "THE PERFECT SHOTGUN FIT," 2021]
  • The superiors rode în a spring-van, and the rest in the wagon, while I walked the whole distance. None of them had the civility to give me a cast forward on either vehicle, […] [1852, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, volumes 17-18, page 398:]
  • boatman, just give us a cast over to the other side of the water. [1882, Sir James William Redhouse, The Turkish Vade-Mecum of Ottoman Colloquial Language, page 328:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *kas-
3. Proto-Germanic *kastōną
4. Old Norse kastabor.
5. Middle English casten
6. English cast
7. From Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta (“to throw, cast, overturn”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw, cast”), of unknown origin.
8. Cognate with Scots cast (“to cast, throw”), Danish kaste (“to throw”), Swedish kasta (“to throw, cast, fling, toss, discard”), Icelandic kasta (“to pitch, toss”). In the sense of "flinging", displaced native warp.
9. The senses relating to broadcasting are based on that same term; compare -cast. See: Old Norse Nouns 'kasta', Danish Nouns 'kaste', Icelandic Nouns 'kasta'.

Verbs referencing "cast"

Dutch Nouns cast, English Nouns caste, French Nouns caste, Galician Nouns caste, Galician Nouns casta.