Cast vs Lay - What's the difference?

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As a noun cast

is moment or cast can be luck, fortune.

As a proper noun lay is

a river in western france.

cast

English

Verb

To move, or be moved, away.

#* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:

Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke

#*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) :

#*:Why then a Ladder quaintly made of Cords / To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, / Would serue to scale another Hero's towre.

#*1760 , (Laurence Sterne), , p.262:

#*:The more, an' please your honour, the pity, said the Corporal; in uttering which, he cast his spade into the wheelbarrow.

#To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.

#*1526 , (Bible) , tr. (William Tyndale), (w) 4:

#*:As Jesus walked by the see off Galile, he sawe two brethren: Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, castynge a neet into the see (for they were fisshers).

#Specifically, to throw down or aside.

#*, II.xii:

#*:So she to Guyon offred it to tast; / Who taking it out of her tender hond, / The cup to ground did violently cast , / That all in peeces it was broken fond.

#*1611 , (Bible) , Authorized Version, (w) VI.30:

#*:it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

#*1930 , "Sidar the Madman", Time , 19 Dec.:

#*:Near Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, Madman, co-pilot and plane were caught in a storm, cast into the Caribbean, drowned.

#*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), (Wolf Hall) , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.316:

#*:Her bow is not to her liking. In a temper, she casts it on the grass.

#(label) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.

#*1822 , "Life of Donald McBane", (w, Blackwood's Magazine) , vol.12, p.745:

#*:when the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons.

#*2002 , Jess Cartner-Morley, "How to Wear Clothes", The Guardian , 2 March:

#*:You know the saying, "Ne'er cast a clout till May is out"? Well, personally, I'm bored of my winter clothes by March.

#(label) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.

#(label) To vomit.

#*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

#*:These versesmake me ready to cast .

#(label) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.

#*(Bible), (w) xix.48

#*:Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee.

#(label) To throw out or emit; to exhale.

#* (1665-1728)

#*:Thiscasts a sulphureous smell.

To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).

*1595 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:To whom do Lyons cast their gentle Lookes? Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den.

*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , I.11:

*:She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest of some amusement.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}

To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.

*1594 , (William Shakespeare), :

*:The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and / reade, and cast accompt.

*, II.17:

*:I cannot yet cast account either with penne or Counters.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:I cast up the notches on my post, and found I had been on shore three hundred and sixty-five days.

To predict, to decide, to plan.

#(label) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).

#*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.309:

#*:he isa perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use.

#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society, 2012, p.332:

#*:John Gadbury confessed that Mrs Cellier, ‘the Popish Midwife’, had asked him to cast the King's nativity, although the astrology claimed to have refused to do so.

#*1985 , (Lawrence Durrell), (Quinx) , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p.1197:

#*:He did the washing up and stayed behind to watch the dinner cook while she hopped off with a friend to have her horoscope cast by another friend.

#(label) To plan, intend.

#*, Book VII.2:

#*:"Fayre damesell, I thanke you hartely," seyde Sir Launcelot, "but truly," seyde he, "I caste me never to be wedded man."

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.i:

#*:I wrapt my selfe in Palmers weed, / And cast to seeke him forth through daunger and great dreed.

#* (1628–1699)

#*:The cloisterhad, I doubt not, been cast for [an orange-house].

#(label) To assign (a role in a play or performance).

#(label) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

#To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.

#*(Bible), (w) i.29

#*:Shecast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

#(label) To impose; to bestow; to rest.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:The government I cast upon my brother.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) iv. 22

#*:Cast thy burden upon the Lord.

#(label) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict.

#* (1773-1850)

#*:She was cast to be hanged.

#*Dr. (Henry More) (1614-1687)

#*:Were the case referred to any competent judge, they would inevitably be cast .

#To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.

#*(Robert South) (1634–1716)

#*:How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious!

To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).

To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.

*1950 , "A Global View", Time , 24 April:

*:The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years.

*1960 , (Lawrence Durrell), :

*:A sudden thought cast a gloom over his countenance.

(label) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

*:being with childe, they may without feare of accusation, spoyle and cast their children, with certaine medicaments, which they have only for that purpose.

*1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , V.20:

*:The abortion of a woman they describe by an horse kicking a wolf; because a mare will cast her foal if she tread in the track of that animal.

To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.

*1923 , "Rodin's Death", Time , 24 March:

*:One copy of the magnificent caveman, The Thinker, of which Rodin cast several examples in bronze, is seated now in front of the Detroit Museum of Art, where it was placed last autumn.

# To stereotype or electrotype.

To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).

*(Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)

*:Stuff is said to cast or warp whenit alters its flatness or straightness.

(label) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.

To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).

(label) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.

(label) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.

*1955 , (William Golding), , Faber and Faber, 2005, p.50:

*:He clambered on to an apron of rock that held its area out to the sun and began to cast across it. The direction of the wind changed and the scent touched him again.

(label) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.

(some are still missing examples)

(label) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.

Derived terms

* cast away * cast iron * cast off * cast on * castable * casting call * casting couch * casting director * cast the first stone * continuous casting * cross-cast * ne'er cast a clout til May be out * the die is cast

Noun

(en noun)

An act of throwing.

Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.

* Dryden

a cast of dreadful dust

A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.

The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts .''

The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.

He’s in the cast of Oliver.

The cast was praised for a fine performance.

The casting procedure.

The men got into position for the cast , two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.

An object made in a mould.

The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.

A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.

The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.

The mould used to make cast objects

A plaster cast was made of his face .

(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:

As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].

A squint.

* 1847 , John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery , p. 389, paragraph 1968:

The image of the affected eye is clearer and in consequence the diplopy more striking the less the cast of the eye; hence the double vision will be noticed by the patient before the misdirection of the eye attracts the attention of those about him.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 7:

Arriving in Brittany, the Woodville exiles found a sallow young man, with dark hair curled in the shoulder-length fashion of the time and a penchant for expensively dyed black clothes, whose steady gaze was made more disconcerting by a cast in his left eye – such that while one eye looked at you, the other searched for you.

Visual appearance.

Her features had a delicate cast to them.

The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.

* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:

I have read all her articles and come to admire both her elegant turn of phrase and the noble cast of mind which inspires it; but never, I confess, did I look to see beauty and wit so perfectly united.

An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.

Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.

A group of crabs.

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lay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) layen, leggen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(label) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

to lay''' a book on the table; to '''lay a body in the grave

A shower of rain lays the dust.

* Bible, (w) vi. 17

A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den.

* 1735 , author unknown, The New-England Primer'', as reported by Fred R. Shapiro in ''The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Yale University Press, pages 549–550:

Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him.}}

*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

:: A corresponding intransitive version of this word is .

To cause to subside or abate.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.viii:

The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd , they fiercely then begin to shoure

* 1662 , , Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems , Dialogue 2:

But how upon the winds being laid , doth the ship cease to move?

(label) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

* 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 48:

Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.

(label) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

lay''' brick; '''lay flooring

(label) To produce and deposit an egg.

(label) To bet (that something is or is not the case).

I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.

(label) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I dare lay mine honour / He will remain so.

To have sex with.

* 1944 , (Raymond Chandler), The Lady in the Lake , Penguin 2011, p. 11:

‘It's because he's a no-good son of a bitch who thinks it is smart to lay his friends' wives and brag about it.’

(label) To take a position; to come or go.

to lay''' forward; to '''lay aloft

(label) To state; to allege.

to lay the venue

(Bouvier)

(label) To point; to aim.

to lay a gun

(label) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.

to lay a cable or rope

(label) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.

(label) To place (new type) properly in the cases.

To apply; to put.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 19

She layeth her hands to the spindle.

To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).

to lay a tax on land

* Bible, (w) liii. 6

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

To impute; to charge; to allege.

* Bible, (w) xxiv. 12

God layeth not folly to them.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Lay the fault on us.

To present or offer.

to lay''' an indictment in a particular county; to '''lay a scheme before one

(Webster 1913)

Derived terms

* lay a finger on * lay a foundation * lay an egg * lay about * lay away * lay bare * lay-by/lay by * lay claim * lay down * lay hands on * lay-in * laying on of hands * lay into * lay low * layoff * lay on the line * lay on the table * lay out * lay siege * lay the groundwork * lay to rest * lay up * lay waste * get laid

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Etymology 2

From the verb.

Noun

(en noun)

Arrangement or relationship; layout.

the lay of the land

A share of the profits in a business.

* 1851 ,

I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays', and that these ' lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship’s company.

The direction a rope is twisted.

Worm and parcel with the lay ; turn and serve the other way.

(colloquial) A casual sexual partner.

* 1996 , JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts , MIRA (1996), ISBN 9780778315254, page 166:

Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay .

* 2000 , R. J. Kaiser, Fruitcake , MIRA (2000), ISBN 1551666251, page 288:

To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay , Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.

* 2011 , Kelly Meding, Trance , Pocket Books (2011), ISBN 9781451620924, pages 205-206:

“Because I don't want William to be just another lay . I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago.

What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

(colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.

* 1993 , David Halberstam, The Fifties , Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ISBN 9781453286074, unnumbered page:

Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay .”

* 2009 , Fern Michaels, The Scoop , Kensington Books (2009), ISBN 9780758227188, pages 212-213:

She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay , you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully.

* 2011 , Pamela Yaye, Promises We Make , Kimani Press (2011), ISBN 9780373861996, unnumbered page:

“What she needs is a good lay . If she had someone to rock her world on a regular basis, she wouldn't be such a raging bit—”

(slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.

(Charles Dickens)

Synonyms

* (casual sexual partner) see also .

Derived terms

* lay of the land

Etymology 3

From (etyl) laie, lawe, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A lake.

Etymology 4

From (etyl)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. [...] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.}}

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

They seemed more lay than clerical.

a lay''' preacher; a '''lay brother

(obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

Etymology 5

: See lie

Verb

(head)

(lie) when pertaining to position.

The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.

(proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).

* 1969' July, Bob Dylan, “'''Lay''' Lady '''Lay ”, ''Nashville Skyline , Columbia:

Lay', lady, '''lay'''. / ' Lay across my big brass bed.

* a.'' 1970 , Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, ''Bridge over Troubled Water , Columbia Records:

Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters / Where the ragged people go

* 1974 , John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, Back Home Again , RCA:

Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.

Derived terms

* layabout

Etymology 6

From (etyl) lay, from (etyl) . See lake.

Noun

(en noun)

A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.

1805' ''The '''Lay of the Last Minstrel , Sir Walter Scott.

Derived terms

* layoff

Etymology 7

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A meadow; a lea.

(Dryden)

Etymology 8

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A law.

* Spenser

many goodly lays

(obsolete) An obligation; a vow.

* Holland

They bound themselves by a sacred lay and oath.

Etymology 9

Verb

To don (put on) (tefillin (gloss)).

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Cast vs Lay - What's the difference?

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