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cast | fall |

As verbs the difference between cast and fall

is that cast is to move, or be moved, away while fall is to move downwards .

As nouns the difference between cast and fall

is that cast is an act of throwing while fall is the act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

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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    fall

    English

    (wikipedia fall)

    Verb

  • To move downwards.
  • #To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • #To come down, to drop or descend.
  • #:
  • #*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), (Bulldog Drummond) , Ch.1:
  • #*:Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
  • #To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
  • #:
  • #To be brought to the ground.
  • (lb) To be moved downwards.
  • #(lb) To let fall; to drop.
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:For every tear he falls , a Trojan bleeds.
  • #(lb) To sink; to depress.
  • #:
  • # To fell; to cut down.
  • #:
  • (lb) To happen, to change negatively.
  • #(lb) To become.
  • #:
  • #To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); (said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
  • #:
  • # To die, especially in battle or by disease.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
  • #:
  • #*Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • #*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
  • #*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1 , pp.284-5:
  • #*:Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
  • #(lb) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .
  • #:
  • (lb) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:If to her share some female errors fall , / Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
  • To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.
  • To bring forth.
  • :
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
  • *(Bible)}, (w) iv.11:
  • *:Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
  • To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
  • :
  • To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
  • *(Bible), (w) iv.5:
  • *:Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell .
  • *(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
  • *:I have observed of late thy looks are fallen .
  • To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
  • *(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • *:The Romans fell on this model by chance.
  • *(Bible), (w) iii.18:
  • *:Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall .
  • *(Herbert Spenser) (1820-1903)
  • *:Primitive mendo not make laws, they fall into customs.
  • To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
  • :
  • *(Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
  • *:They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
  • To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
  • :
  • Quotations

    * , Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3: *: Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.

    Synonyms

    * (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity) drop, plummet, plunge * (come down) come down, descend, drop * (come to the ground deliberately) drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself * (be brought to the ground) * : be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by, * (die) die * (be allotted to) be the responsibility of, be up to * : dip, drop * (become) become, get * : cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

    Antonyms

    * (come down) ascend, go up, rise * (come to the ground deliberately) get up, pick oneself up, stand up * : beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish * : rise

    Derived terms

    * the apple does not fall far from the tree * the * the curtain falls * fair fall * fallable * fall aboard * fall aboard of * fall about * fall about someone's ears * fall abreast of * fall abroad of * fall across * fall adown * fall afire * fall afoul * fall afoul of * fall after * fallage * fall all over someone or oneself * fall among * fall apart * fall asleep * fall aslope * fall astern * fall asunder * fall at * fall at the crest * fall at the first fence, fall at the first hurdle * fall away * fall back * * fall back on, fall back upon * fall behind, fall behindhand * fall between the cracks * fall between two stools * fall by * fall by the wayside * fall calm * fall dead * fall down * fall down on * fall due * fallen * faller * fall flat * fall flat on one's face * fall for * fall forth * fall foul * fall foul of, fall foul with * fall from * fall from grace * fall heir * fall home * fall ill * fall in * fall in age * fall in flesh * fall in for * falling * fall in line * fall in love * fall in mold, fall in mould * fall in one's road * fall in one's way * fall in somebody's heart, fall in someone's heart * fall in somebody's mind, fall in someone's mind * fall into one's hands * fall into one's lap * fall in two * fall in upon * fall in with * fall into * fall into line * fall into place * fall into somebody's heart, fall into someone's heart * fall into somebody's mind, fall into someone's mind * fall of * fall off * fall off the turnip truck * fall on * fall on board * fall on deaf ears * fall one's crest * fall on one's face * fall on one's feet * fall on shore * fall on sleep * fall on one's knees * fall on one's sword * fall on the crest * fall open * fall out * fall out in * fall out of * fall out upon * fall out with * fall over * fall over oneself * fall over one's feet * fall pregnant * fall prey to * fall short * fall short of * fall short to * fall sick * fall silent * fallstreaks, fallstreifen * fall through * fall through the cracks * fall to * fall to be * fall together * fall to loggerheads * fall to mold, fall to mould * fall to oneself * fall to one's knees * fall to one's lot * fall to one's share * fall to pieces * fall to powder * fall to the ground * fall under * fall unto * fall upon * fall victim to * fall what can fall, fall what will fall * fall with * fall within * foul fall * let fall * let the chips fall where they may * may fall, may-fall * misfall * overfall * the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain * refall * tendency of the rate of profit to fall * to-fall * under-fall *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
  • A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
  • *
  • *:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
  • A loss of greatness or status.
  • (label) A crucial event or circumstance.
  • # The action of a batsman being out.
  • # (label) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
  • # (label) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
  • Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
  • The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
  • See'' falls'''
  • An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
  • Synonyms

    * (act of moving to a lower position) descent, drop * (reduction) decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction * (season) autumn * (loss of greatness or status) downfall * rap

    Antonyms

    * (act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity) ascent, rise * (reduction) increase, rise * (loss of greatness or status) ascent, rise

    Derived terms

    * accidental fall * angle of fall * ash fall, ashfall * backfall * best-of-three-falls match * block and fall * break a fall * break-fall, breakfall * break one's fall * byfall * catfall * center of falls, centre of falls * chainfall * crossfall * darkfall * dead fall, dead-fall, deadfall * dew-fall, dewfall * dog-fall, dogfall * downfall * dustfall * earthfall * even-fall, evenfall * fall-and-rise phenomenon * fall armyworm * fall and tackle * fall block, fall-block * fall-blooming * fall-board, fallboard * fall-breaker * fall-bridge * fall cankerworm * (Fall Classic) * fall-cloud * fall colors * fall dandelion * fall-door * fall duck * fall equinox * fall factor * fall-fish, fallfish * fall foliage * fall-forward * fall from grace * fall front * fall-front desk * fall guy, fall-guy * fall herring * fall-iron door * fall-leaf * fall-less * fall line, fall-line * fall money * The (Fall of Baghdad) * The (Fall of Constantinople) * fall of day * the (w) * the Fall of Man, the fall of man * The (Fall of Saigon) * fall of the leaf * fall of the perch * the (w), the (Fall of Rome) * fall of wicket * fall overturn * fall-pipe * fall-pippin * fall rate * fall-rise * fall-rope * fall-run fish * falls * (Falls-to-Falls Corridor) * fall time * fall-trap * fall turnover * fall-way * fall webworm * fall wind, fall-wind * fall-window * fall-wood * fally * fall zone * fish fall * foot-fall, footfall * free fall * give a fall * ice fall, ice-fall * infall * jaw-fall, jawfall * landfall * law-fall * leaf-fall * litterfall * mid-fall, midfall * misfall * mouse-fall * near-fall * nightfall * offal * onfall * outfall * overfall * parachute landing fall * pinfall * pitfall * planetfall * prat-fall, pratfall, pratt-fall * pressure-fall center, pressure-fall centre * pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall * proudfall * rainfall * ride for a fall * rises and falls * rock-fall, rockfall * roof fall * root-fall * shake a fall * shout-and-fall * slip and fall * smokefall * snow-fall, snowfall * speck falls * stiff board fall * sunfall * Swedish fall * tackle fall * take the fall * technical fall * terminal fall velocity * threadfall * throughfall * toe drain and outfall * trad fall * trap-fall, trapfall * try a fall * two-out-of-three-falls match * underfall * waterfall * whale fall * windfall * withfall * wrestle a fall * zipper fall

    See also

    * falls * [http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/Words/
  • fall]