Array and Cast

array

noun

An orderly arrangement.
- usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
An impressive display.
- usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
Especially fine or decorative clothing.
- synonyms: raiment, regalia
An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
- usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
- synonyms: range, lay out, set out
Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
- synonyms: align

(n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
(n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
(n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
(n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
(n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
(n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
(n.) An imposing series of things.
(n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
(n.) The panel itself.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

cast

noun

The actors in a play.
- synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens.
- synonyms: mold, mould
The distinctive form in which a thing is made.
- usage: "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region"
- synonyms: mold, mould, stamp
The visual appearance of something or someone.
- usage: "the delicate cast of his features"
- synonyms: form, shape
Bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal.
- synonyms: plaster cast, plaster bandage
Object formed by a mold.
- synonyms: casting
The act of throwing dice.
- synonyms: roll
The act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel.
- synonyms: casting
A violent throw.
- synonyms: hurl

verb

Put or send forth.
- usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
- synonyms: project, contrive, throw
Deposit.
- usage: "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"
Select to play, sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.
- usage: "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona"
Throw forcefully.
- synonyms: hurl, hurtle
Assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors.
- usage: "Who cast this beautiful movie"
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
- usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
- synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
Form by pouring (e. G., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold.
- usage: "cast a bronze sculpture"
- synonyms: mold, mould
Get rid of.
- usage: "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
- synonyms: shed, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop
Choose at random.
- usage: "draw a card"; "cast lots"
- synonyms: draw
Formulate in a particular style or language.
- usage: "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
- synonyms: frame, redact, put, couch
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
- usage: "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
- synonyms: vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up

(v.i.) To calculate; to compute.
(n.) The act of casting in a mold.
(v.i.) To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh.
(n.) The act of casting or throwing; a throw.
(n.) A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.
(n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
(v.t.) To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stoves, bullets.
(n.) A stoke, touch or trick.
(v.i.) To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.
(n.) The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.
(n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.
(n.) Contrivance; plot, design.
(n.) A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance; squint.
(v.t.) To contrive; to plan.
(n.) That which is formed in a mild; especially a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
(v.t.) To impose; to bestow; to rest.
(v.t.) To direct or turn, as the eyes.
(n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
(v.t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages.
(n.) A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.
(v.i.) To warp; to become twisted out of shape.
(v.t.) To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.
(v.t.) To fix, distribute or allot, as the parts of a play among actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.
(v.i.) To vomit.
(v.t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.
(v.t.) To throw down, as in wrestling.
(v.i.) To receive form or shape in a mold.
(v.t.) To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to impel.
(n.) An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.
(v.i.) To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as, to cast about for reasons.
(v.t.) To throw up, as a mound or rampart.
(v.t.) To throw out or emit; to exhale.
(v.t.) To bring forth prematurely; to slink.
(n.) That which is throw out or off, shed or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.
(v.t.) To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.
(v.t.) To stereotype or electrotype.
(v.t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
(n.) A chance, opportunity, privilege or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift.
(n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
(n.) The thing thrown.
(n.) Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.
(v.t.) To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a horoscope.
(imp.&p.p.) of Cast.
(v.t.) To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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