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Caste vs Caster - What's the difference?

caste | caster |

As nouns the difference between caste and caster

is that caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies while caster is someone or something that casts.

caste

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
  • A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  • * Macaulay
    • The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .

    Hyponyms

    * (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    caster

    English

    Alternative forms

    * castor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that casts
    • a caster''' of spells; a '''caster of stones
  • A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of
  • * a wheel, which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal
  • * an axle
  • * a mounting provision, usually a stem, flange, or plate
  • * (sometimes) a swivel which allows the caster to rotate for steering
    • Many office chairs roll on a set of casters .
  • A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
    • a set of casters
  • A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.

    • See also

    * caster angle * caster sugar

    Anagrams

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