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cast | tip |

As nouns the difference between cast and tip

is that cast is moment or cast can be luck, fortune while tip is type.

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.
  • Statistics

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    tip

    English

    Etymology 1

    Circa 1225. Not recorded in Old English or Old Norse, but apparently cognate with Dutch tip, East Frisian tip, Danish tip, Swedish tipp. Perhaps cognate with Old English . Compare Albanian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
  • * 1848 , (Anne Bronte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :
  • When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
  • (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
  • A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
  • A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
  • Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
  • (Webster 1913)
    Synonyms
    *(extreme end of something) extremity

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of.
  • * 1598 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act V:
  • I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].
  • * Hudibras
  • truncheon tipped with iron head
  • * Thomson
  • Tipped with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from Scandinavian, or a special use of Etymology 1.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To knock over; to make fall down, to overturn.
  • To fall over.
  • To be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; to become unbalanced.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two [...].
  • (transitive, slang, dated) To drink.
  • To dump (refuse).
  • (US) To pour a libation, particularly from a forty of malt liquor.
  • * 1993 , ”:
  • I tip my 40 to your memory.
  • To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.}}
    Derived terms
    * tip off * tip one's hand * tip one's hat * tippable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle.
  • An act of tipping up or tilting.
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple ); a dump.
  • * 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?'', '' , page 389,
  • As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.
  • * 2009 , Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip'], [http://www.hepburnadvocate.com.au/, The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital
  • When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip .
  • * 2009 , Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website
  • There are two rubbish tip s in Rother.
  • * 2009 , Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd
  • Computer collectibles saved from the tip
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
  • (colloquial) A very untidy place.
  • The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}

    Etymology 3

    Of uncertain origin; apparently cognate with (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippen, (etyl) tippa.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

    Noun

    (tips)
  • Etymology 4

    Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain orign.

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother
  • Derived terms
    * tipper * tipping

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
  • * 1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
  • A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.
    Synonyms
    * cumshaw * baksheesh

    Etymology 5

    Probably from , or a combination of the two.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc.
  • A piece of advice.
  • Derived terms
    * hot tip * stock tip * tip-off * tip sheet * tipster
    Descendants
    * German: (l)

    Verb

    (tipp)
  • To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc.
  • Derived terms
    * tip off

    Etymology 6

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (AAVE) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
  • (AAVE) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.
  • Anagrams

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