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cast

/kɑːst/

US pronunciation
American sound/kɑːst/
cast
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Open ah vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> cast

Myanmar meaning

(v) ပြဇာတ်စသည်တို့၌ပါဝင်သည့် သရုပ်ဆောင်အားလုံး။ ပုံစံခွက်ထဲသို့ လောင်းခြင်း။ ပုံစံခွက်။ မို။ (ကြွေ၊ အန်) ပစ်ခြင်း။ လက်ထွန့်ပစ်ခြင်း။ ကွန်ပစ်ခြင်း။ အမျိုး အစား။ အမြန် စဉ်းစားရန်၊ ပြောရန်ကြိုးစားသည်။ (n) သရုပ်ဆောင်အားလုံး (v[pt]) အရိပ်ထင်စေခဲ့ (v[pp]) အရိပ်ထင်စေခဲ့ပြီး

Full entry

cast /ka:st; US kæst/ v (pt, pp cast )

၁။ (အရိပ်)ထင်စေ၊ ကျ စေသည်။
The tree cast (ie caused there to be) a long shadow (on the grass).
၂။ ကြည့်သည်။
He cast a furtive glance at her. ❍ (fig ) The tragedy cast a shadow on/over their lives (ie made them sad for a long time after it happened).
၃။ သံသယဖြစ်ဖွယ်ရှိသည်။
(fig ) His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness.
၄။ (fml ) ပစ်သည်။ (ကျောက်)ချသည်။ (ကွန်၊ ငါးမျှားကြိုး)ပစ် သည်။ cast a stone ❍ We cast anchor (ie lowered it into the water) off a small island.
၅။ (အရေခွံ) လဲသည်၊ ကျွတ်ထွက်သွားသည်။ Snakes cast their skins. ❍ The horse cast a shoe (ie One of its shoes came off).
၆။ သရုပ် ဆောင်များကို ရွေးသည်။ We're casting (the play) next week.
၇။ ~ sb (as sb) ; ~ sb (in sth) သရုပ်ဆောင်စေသည်။
He was cast as Othello/cast in the role of Othello.
၈။ သဘောထားကြသည်။ (fig ) Why am I always cast as a troublemaker whenever I complain?
၉။ (က) ~ sth (in sth) ပုံသွန်းသည်။ a statue cast in bronze.
(ခ) …ပုံစံ ဖြင့်ရေးထားသည်။ (fig ) The novel is cast in the form of a diary.
n
၁။ [CGp] ပြဇာတ်စသည်တို့၌ပါဝင်သည့် သရုပ်ဆောင်အားလုံး။ a play with a distinguished cast (ie with famous actors in it) ❍ a cast of thousands (eg for a big historical film) ❍ Sir John Gielgud heads the cast (ie is the most important actor in the film or play). ❍ a cast list.
၂။ [C] (က) ပုံစံခွက်ထဲသို့ လောင်းခြင်း။
(ခ) ပုံစံခွက်။ မို။
(ဂ) = plaster cast
၃။ [C] (က) (ကြွေ၊ အန်) ပစ်ခြင်း။ the cast of the dice.
(ခ) လက်ထွန့်ပစ်ခြင်း။ ကွန်ပစ်ခြင်း။ make a cast with a fishing-line/net.
၄။ [sing] (fml ) အမျိုး အစား။ He has an unusual cast of mind. See also WORM-CAST
❏ cast about/around for sth [PHRV ] အမြန် စဉ်းစားရန်၊ ပြောရန်ကြိုးစားသည်။ He cast about desperately for something to say.
❏ cast sb adrift [IDM ] (usu passive) ရေ၌မျှောသည်။ When the crew mutinied he was cast adrift in a small boat without food.
❏ cast sb/sth aside [PHRV ] ဖယ်ထားသည်။ ပထားသည်။ ခေါက်ထားသည်။ She has cast her old friends aside. ❍ He cast aside all his inhibitions.
❏ cast sb away [PHRV ] (usu passive) (သင်္ဘောပျက်၍) သောင်တင်ကျန်ခဲ့သည်။ be cast away on a desert island.
❏ cast an eye/one's eye(s) over sb/sth [IDM ] ခပ် သွက်သွက်ကြည့်ပေးသည်။ Would you cast your eye over these calculations to check that they are correct?
❏ casting n
၁။ [U] သရုပ်ဆောင်ရန်လူရွေးခြင်း။ a strange piece of casting.
၂။ [C] ကျိုထားသောသတ္တုကို ပုံစံခွက် ထဲသို့လောင်း၍ ပုံသွန်းခြင်း။
❏ casting vote n (usu sing ) ဆုံးဖြတ်မဲ။ have the casting vote on sth.
❏ cast iron n [U] သံကြွပ်။ Compare WROUGHT IRON
❏ cast-iron adj
၁။ သံကြွပ်ဖြင့်ပြုလုပ်ထားသော။
၂။ အလွန်မာ၍ မကျိုးနိုင်သော။ He has a cast-iron constitution. ❍ They won't find her guilty—she's got a cast-iron defence.
❏ cast one's mind back (to sth) [IDM ] နောက်ကြောင်းကို ပြန်စဉ်းစားသည်။ She cast her mind back to her wedding-day. ❍ Can you cast your mind back three months and tell me what the situation was then?
❏ cast one's net wide [IDM ] ထောက်ပံ့ရေး၊ ထောက်လှမ်းရေး စသည့်လုပ်ငန်းများကို နယ်ချဲ့သည်။ The company is casting its net wide in its search for a new sales director.
❏ cast (sth) off [PHRV ]
၁။ လှေ၊ သင်္ဘော ချည်ထားသော ကြိုးကို ဖြုတ်သည်။ cast off from the shore.
၂။ သိုးမွေး၊ ဇာ စသည်ထိုးရာတွင် သိုးမွေးအပင်များကို အပ်မှချွတ်သည်။
❏ cast-off adj (Brit ) စွန့်ပစ်ထားသော။ cast-off shoes.
n (usu pl ) စွန့်ပစ်အဝတ်အထည်များ။ အကျထည်များ။ As a boy I often wore my elder brother's cast-offs.
❏ cast (sth) on [PHRV ] နှစ်ချောင်းထိုးထိုးရာတွင် ပထမ ဦးဆုံးအတန်းအတွက် အပင်ပွားသည်။
❏ cast sb out [PHRV ] (fml ) (esp passive) တစ်စုံတစ်ဦးကို အတင်းမောင်းထုတ်သည်။ See also OUTCAST
❏ cast a/one's vote [IDM ] ဆန္ဒမဲပေးသည်။ The vote have all been cast—they're now being counted.

More examples
  • Ralph Fiennes was cast in the lead role of King Richard.
  • [cast someone as something] : She was tired of always being cast as a sex symbol.
  • [cast someone as something] : From his earliest days on the team he was cast as a troublemaker.
  • [cast a look/glance] : She cast an impatient look at Mitch and stormed out of the room.
  • [cast an eye over/cast your eyes over] : Harry cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments on the control panel.
  • The Rodin sculptures are cast in bronze.
Synonyms
shed, throw, direct, shine, radiate, emit, transmit, spread, actors, actresses, add, aim, air, allot, appoint, arrange, artists, assign, bestow, bestrewn, blueprint, boot, breed, bung, calculate, casting, characters, chart, choose, chuck, company, complexion, compute, conformation, copy, count, countenance, create, decide upon, delegate, demeanor, deposit, design, designate, detail, determine, devise, diffuse, distribute, dramatis personae, drive, drop, duplicate, ejection, embodiment, engender, expression, expulsion, face, facsimile, figure, fire, fling, flinging, foot, forecast, form, generate, give, give parts, give rise to, heave, heaving, hue, hurl, hurling, impel, launch, launching, list, lob, lobbing, look, manner, mien, model, modeled, mold, molded, molded structure, name, number, parts, peg, performers, pick, pitch, pitching, plan, plaster, plastic, players, point, precast, produce, project, projection, propulsion, reckon, replica, roles, scatter, sculpture, semblance, shape, shooting, shy, sling, slinging, sowed, spatter, spray, sprinkle, stamp, strew, style, sum, summate, throw aside, thrust, thrusting, tinge, tint, tone, toss, tossing, tot, total, train, troupe, turn, visage
Antonyms
catch, collect, disorder, disorganize, dissuade, estimate, gather, guess, ignore, keep, keeping, neglect, original, receive, repress, retention, stop, subtract, take, white, withhold
Cross references
shedthrowdirectshineradiateemittransmitspreadactorsactressesaddaimairallotappointarrangeartistsassignbestowbestrewnblueprintbootbreedbungcalculatecastingcharacterschart
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