The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc. / A manufacturing process using a mold. / An object made in a mold.

present participle of cast

plural of casting

(now somewhat literary) To throw. / To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea. / To throw down or aside.

An act of throwing. / (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line. / Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc. / A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of cast

Having membership in a caste.

(medicine) Set in a cast.

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies. / A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

plural of caste