Caste vs Downcast - What's the difference?
caste | downcast |
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
(of eyes) Looking downwards.
* Dryden
(of a person) Feeling despondent.
(computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
(obsolete) A melancholy look.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(mining) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.
(obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(computing) To cast from supertype to subtype.
As nouns the difference between caste and downcast
is that caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of south asian societies while downcast is (computing) a cast from supertype to subtype.As an adjective downcast is
(of eyes) looking downwards.As a verb downcast is
(obsolete) to cast or throw up; to turn upward.caste
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .
Hyponyms
* (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varnaAnagrams
* * ----downcast
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 'Tis love, said she; and then my downcast eyes, / And guilty dumbness, witnessed my surprise.
Noun
(en noun)- That downcast of thine eye.