Commit and Cast

• (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
• (v.t.) To confound.
• (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
• (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
• (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
• (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
• (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

verb

• Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
  • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • synonyms: perpetrate, pull
• Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  • usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
  • synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Confer a trust upon.
  • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

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.