Miscast vs Typecast - What's the difference?
miscast | typecast |
(intransitive) To cast or reckon incorrectly.
(intransitive) To cast or direct erroneously or improperly.
To cast an actor in an inappropriate role.
To make an error when casting a vote.
Erroneously cast
To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc.
(computing, programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
As verbs the difference between miscast and typecast
is that miscast is (intransitive) to cast or reckon incorrectly while typecast is to cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.As a noun miscast
is an erroneous cast or reckoning.As an adjective miscast
is erroneously cast.miscast
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Verb
- to miscast a glance
Adjective
(-)Anagrams
*typecast
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Verb
- Typecasting in Java.
- Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
