Company vs Cast - What's the difference?
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A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
# A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
# (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
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# (label) The entire crew of a ship.
# (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
(label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
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(label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) Companionship.
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, 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. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
(archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
(archaic) To associate.
* Bible, Acts i. 21
(obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
To move, or be moved, away.
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#* 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:
#*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.
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#*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).
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#(label) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
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#To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
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#*(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.
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#* (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.
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#*(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.
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(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.
An act of throwing.
Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
* Dryden
A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
The casting procedure.
An object made in a mould.
A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
The mould used to make cast objects
(hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
A squint.
* 1847 , John Churchill, A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery , p. 389,
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 7:
Visual appearance.
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The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
* 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 330:
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.
In nautical terms the difference between company and cast
is that company is the entire crew of a ship while cast is 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.As nouns the difference between company and cast
is that company is a team; a group of people who work together professionally while cast is an act of throwing.As verbs the difference between company and cast
is that company is to accompany, keep company with while cast is To move, or be moved, away.company
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(wikipedia company)Noun
The Dust of Conflict, passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
Synonyms
* corporationDerived terms
* a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company inkVerb
- Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
- it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
- Men which have companied with us all the time.
- (Spenser)
- (Bishop Hall)
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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 castNoun
(en noun)- a cast of dreadful dust
- The area near the stream was covered with little bubbly worm casts .''
- He’s in the cast of Oliver.
- The cast was praised for a fine performance.
- The men got into position for the cast , two at the ladle, two with long rods, all with heavy clothing.
- The cast would need a great deal of machining to become a recognizable finished part.
- The doctor put a cast on the boy’s broken arm.
- A plaster cast was made of his face .
- As when a cast of Faulcons make their flight / An an Herneshaw, that lyes aloft on wing […].
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- 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.
- 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.
- Her features had a delicate cast to them.
- 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.