Recast vs Becast - What's the difference?
recast | becast |
To cast or throw again.
*, I.47:
To mould again.
To reproduce in a new form.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p.33:
The act or process of recasting.
(linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.
(obsolete) To cover or surround by casting (something) about.
(obsolete) To cast about; plan; plot; contrive.
As verbs the difference between recast and becast
is that recast is to cast or throw again while becast is to cover or surround by casting (something) about.As a noun recast
is the act or process of recasting.recast
English
Verb
- the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
- The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.
- Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
Noun
(en noun)- Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.