The cast of a play or film is all the people who act in it.

To cast an actor in a play or film means to choose them to act a particular role in it.

To cast someone in a particular way or as a particular thing means to describe them in that way or suggest they are that thing.

If you cast your eyes or cast a look in a particular direction, you look quickly in that direction.

If something casts a light or shadow somewhere, it causes it to appear there.

To cast doubt on something means to cause people to be unsure about it.

When you cast your vote in an election, you vote.

To cast something or someone somewhere means to throw them there.

If someone casts a fishing line or casts, they throw one end of the fishing line into the water.

To cast an object means to make it by pouring a liquid such as hot metal into a specially shaped container and leaving it there until it becomes hard.

A cast is a model that has been made by pouring a liquid such as plaster or hot metal onto something or into something, so that when it hardens it has the same shape as that thing.

A cast is the same as a plaster cast .

If someone has a particular cast of mind or cast of thought, they have that kind of character or way of thinking of things.