English Dictionary

cast

IPA（発音記号）

/kɑːst/

動詞

文語 物理的 動物 廃用 古語 古風 他動詞

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

日本語の意味

投げる（物を空中に放り出す） / 釣り糸や網などを海などに向かって投げ出す / ～を脇に投げ捨てる、取り除く

Under the pale moon, she cast the silver coin into the well and whispered a wish.

薄明かりの月の下、彼女は銀貨を井戸に投げ入れて願いをささやいた。

意味（1）

(now somewhat literary) To throw.

Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre[…].

意味（2）

To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers)[…].

意味（3）

To throw down or aside.

So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast, / That all in peeces it was broken fond […]

意味（4）

(of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.

意味（5）

To cause (a horse or other large animal) to lie down with its legs underneath it.

意味（6）

(obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).

when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons […].

意味（7）

(nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

意味（8）

(obsolete) To vomit.

These verses […] make me ready to cast.

意味（9）

(archaic) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

意味（10）

(archaic) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

This […] casts a sulphurous smell.

意味（11）

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

To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

意味（12）

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

To what this ten years' tribute will amount, That we have cast, but cannot compass it By reason of the wars, that robb'd our store

意味（13）

(astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309: he is […] a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

意味（14）

(obsolete) To plan, intend.

I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

意味（15）

(transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).

The director cast the part carefully.

意味（16）

(transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

The director cast John Smith as King Lear.

意味（17）

To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

to cast about for reasons

意味（18）

(archaic) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

The government I cast upon my brother.

意味（19）

(archaic) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

to be cast in damages

意味（20）

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

a casting voice

意味（21）

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

Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.

意味（22）

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

The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

意味（23）

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

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98: being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast [translating avorter] their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

意味（24）

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

意味（25）

(printing, dated) To stereotype or electrotype.

意味（26）

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

Stuff is said to cast or warp when […] it alters its flatness or straightness.

意味（27）

(nautical) 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.

意味（28）

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

意味（29）

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

Casting is generally an indication of bad design.

意味（30）

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

He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

意味（31）

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

意味（32）

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

意味（33）

(media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.

The streamer was the first to cast footage of the new game.

casts （ present singular third-person ）

casting （ participle present ）

cast （ participle past ）

cast （ past ）

casted （ nonstandard participle past ）

casted （ nonstandard past ）

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en-conj （ inflection-template ）

cast （ infinitive ）