Cast-off

Definition

cast /ka:st; US kæst/ v ( pt, pp cast ) ၁။ (အရိပ္)ထင္ေစ၊ က် ေစသည္။ The tree cast (ie caused there to be) a long shadow (on the grass). ၂။ ၾကည့္သည္။ 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။ သံသယျဖစ္ဖြယ္ရိွသည္။ ( fig ) His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness. ၄။ ( fml ) ပစ္သည္။ (ေက်ာက္)ခ်သည္။ (ကြန္၊ ငါးမွ်ားႀကိဳး)ပစ္ သည္။ cast a stone ❍ We cast anchor (ie lowered it into the water) off a small island. ၅။ (အေရခြံ) လဲသည္၊ ကြၽတ္ထြက္သြားသည္။ Snakes cast their skins. ❍ The horse cast a shoe (ie One of its shoes came off). ၆။ သ႐ုပ္ ေဆာင္မ်ားကို ေရြးသည္။ We're casting (the play) next week. ၇။ ~ sb (as sb) ; ~ sb (in sth) သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ေစသည္။ He was cast as Othello/cast in the role of Othello. ၈။ သေဘာထားၾကသည္။ ( fig ) Why am I always cast as a troublemaker whenever I complain? ၉။ (က) ~ sth (in sth) ပံုသြန္းသည္။ a statue cast in bronze. (ခ) …ပံုစံ ျဖင့္ေရးထားသည္။ ( fig ) The novel is cast in the form of a diary. n ၁။ [CGp] ျပဇာတ္စသည္တို႔၌ပါဝင္သည့္ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္အားလံုး။ 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) ပံုစံခြက္ထဲသို႔ ေလာင္းျခင္း။ (ခ) ပံုစံခြက္။ မို။ (ဂ) = plaster cast ၃။ [C] (က) (ေႂကြ၊ အန္) ပစ္ျခင္း။ the cast of the dice. (ခ) လက္ထြန္႔ပစ္ျခင္း။ ကြန္ပစ္ျခင္း။ make a cast with a fishing-line/net. ၄။ [sing] ( fml ) အမ်ဳိး အစား။ He has an unusual cast of mind. See also WORM-CAST ❏ cast about/around for sth [ PHRV ] အျမန္ စဥ္းစားရန္၊ ေျပာရန္ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ He cast about desperately for something to say. ❏ cast sb adrift [ IDM ] (usu passive) ေရ၌ေမွ်ာသည္။ When the crew mutinied he was cast adrift in a small boat without food. ❏ cast sb/sth aside [ PHRV ] ဖယ္ထားသည္။ ပထားသည္။ ေခါက္ထားသည္။ She has cast her old friends aside. ❍ He cast aside all his inhibitions. ❏ cast sb away [ PHRV ] (usu passive) (သေဘၤာပ်က္၍) ေသာင္တင္က်န္ခဲ့သည္။ be cast away on a desert island. ❏ cast an eye/one's eye(s) over sb/sth [ IDM ] ခပ္ သြက္သြက္ၾကည့္ေပးသည္။ Would you cast your eye over these calculations to check that they are correct? ❏ casting n ၁။ [U] သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္လူေရြးျခင္း။ a strange piece of casting. ၂။ [C] က်ဳိထားေသာသတၱဳကို ပံုစံခြက္ ထဲသို႔ေလာင္း၍ ပံုသြန္းျခင္း။ ❏ casting vote n (usu sing ) ဆံုးျဖတ္မဲ။ have the casting vote on sth. ❏ cast iron n [U] သံႂကြပ္။ Compare WROUGHT IRON ❏ cast-iron adj ၁။ သံႂကြပ္ျဖင့္ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ။ ၂။ အလြန္မာ၍ မက်ဳိးႏိုင္ေသာ။ 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 ] ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းကို ျပန္စဥ္းစားသည္။ 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 ] ေထာက္ပံ့ေရး၊ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး စသည့္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို နယ္ခ်ဲ႕သည္။ The company is casting its net wide in its search for a new sales director. ❏ cast (sth) off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာ ခ်ည္ထားေသာ ႀကိဳးကို ျဖဳတ္သည္။ cast off from the shore. ၂။ သိုးေမြး၊ ဇာ စသည္ထိုးရာတြင္ သိုးေမြးအပင္မ်ားကို အပ္မွခြၽတ္သည္။ ❏ cast-off adj ( Brit ) စြန္႔ပစ္ထားေသာ။ cast-off shoes. n (usu pl ) စြန္႔ပစ္အဝတ္အထည္မ်ား။ အက်ထည္မ်ား။ As a boy I often wore my elder brother's cast-offs. ❏ cast (sth) on [ PHRV ] ႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္းထိုးထိုးရာတြင္ ပထမ ဦးဆံုးအတန္းအတြက္ အပင္ပြားသည္။ ❏ cast sb out [ PHRV ] ( fml ) (esp passive) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးကို အတင္းေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ See also OUTCAST ❏ cast a/one's vote [ IDM ] ဆႏၵမဲေပးသည္။ The vote have all been cast—they're now being counted.

Examples

1. Ralph Fiennes was cast in the lead role of King Richard.
2. [cast someone as something] : She was tired of always being cast as a sex symbol.
3. [cast someone as something] : From his earliest days on the team he was cast as a troublemaker.
4. [cast a look/glance] : She cast an impatient look at Mitch and stormed out of the room.
5. [cast an eye over/cast your eyes over] : Harry cast his eyes over the bewildering array of instruments on the control panel.
6. The Rodin sculptures are cast in bronze.