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Hurling vs Casting - What's the difference?

hurling | casting |

As nouns the difference between hurling and casting

is that hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown while casting is casting.

As a verb hurling

is .

hurling

English

Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
  • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • casting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
  • A manufacturing process using a mold.
  • The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.
  • The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
  • (computing) The act of converting between data types.
  • Synonyms

    * (selection of performers) audition

    Derived terms

    * leafcasting * ray casting

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