Word Meanings - CASTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing. 2. The act or process of making cast or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold. 3. That which is cast in a mold; esp.

Additional info about word: CASTING

1. The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing. 2. The act or process of making cast or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold. 3. That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting. 4. The warping of a board. Brande & C. 5. The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc. Casting of draperies, the proper distribution of the folds of garments, in painting and sculpture. -- Casting line , the leader; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. -- Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the governor had the casting voice." B. Trumbull. -- Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly poised.

Related words: (words related to CASTING)

• MOLTEN
  1. Melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron. 2. Made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• FISHHAWK
  The osprey , found both in Europe and America; -- so called because it plunges into the water and seizes fishes in its talons. Called also fishing eagle, and bald buzzard.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• FISH-TAIL
  Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. -- Fish-tail propeller , a propeller with a single blade
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• BONEFISH
  See LADYFISH
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• MUFFISH
  Stupid; awkward.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• TIFFISH
  Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• DOGFISH
  1. A small shark, of many species, of the genera Mustelus, Scyllium, Spinax, etc. Note: The European spotted dogfishes (Scyllium catudus, and S. canicula) are very abundant; the American smooth, or blue dogfish is Mustelus canis; the common picked,