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Noun caste has 3 senses
- caste - social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"
--1 is a kind of status, position
- caste - (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
--2 is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class
--2 has particulars: jati
- caste - a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
--3 is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class
Verb cast has 11 senses
- project, cast, contrive, throw - put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
--1 is one way to send, direct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- cast - deposit; "cast a vote"; "cast a ballot"
--2 is one way to give
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- cast - select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet; "He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona"
--3 is one way to delegate, designate, depute, assign
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- hurl, hurtle, cast - throw forcefully
--4 is one way to throw
Sample sentence:
They cast the object in the water
- cast - assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors; "Who cast this beautiful movie?"
--5 is one way to delegate, designate, depute, assign
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue cast the movie
- roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "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"
--6 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
- cast, mold, mould - form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold; "cast a bronze sculpture"
--7 is one way to shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
Sample sentence:
Did he cast his major works over a short period of time?
- shed, cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop - get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes"
--8 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- draw, cast - choose at random; "draw a card"; "cast lots"
--9 is one way to move, go
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- frame, redact, cast, put, couch - formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
--10 is one way to give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
--11 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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