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cast

verb
  1. To send through the air with a motion of the hand or arm: dart, dash, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, pitch, shoot, shy 2, sling, throw, toss. Informal: fire. See move
  2. To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something: aim, direct, head, level, point, set 1, train, turn, zero in. Military: lay 1. See seek
  3. To send out heat, light, or energy: emit, irradiate, project, radiate, shed, throw. See move
  4. To form a strategy for: blueprint, chart, conceive, contrive, design, devise, formulate, frame, lay 1, plan, project, scheme, strategize, work out. Informal: dope out. Idiom: lay plans. See planned
  5. To ascertain by mathematics: calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon. See reason
  6. To combine (figures) to form a sum: add (up), foot (up), sum (up), tot 2 (up), total, totalize. See increase
phrasal verb

cast about
To try to find something: hunt, look, quest, search, seek. See seek
phrasal verb

cast out
To rid one's mind of: banish, dismiss, dispel, shut out. See keep
noun
  1. An act of throwing: fling, heave, hurl, launch, pitch, shy 2, sling, throw, toss. See move
  2. A disposition of the facial features that conveys meaning, feeling, or mood: aspect, countenance, expression, face, look, visage. See express
  3. A hollow device for shaping a fluid or plastic substance: form, matrix, mold. See surface
  4. The external outline of a thing: configuration, figure, form, pattern, shape. See surface
  5. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: breed, description, feather, ilk, kind 2, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal: persuasion. See group
  6. An inclination to something: bent, bias, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, trend, turn. See approach, like
  7. A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation: hue, tinge, tint, tone. See colors
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