casting

• (General American): enPR: kăstʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈkæstɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: kästʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːstɪŋ/
• (Northern England): IPA^(key): /ˈkastɪŋ/
• (NYC): IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəstɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
• Hyphenation: cast‧ing

From Middle English castynge, castand, equivalent to cast +‎ -ing.

casting

1. present participle of cast

From Middle English castyng, castinge, equivalent to cast +‎ -ing.

casting (countable and uncountable, plural castings)

1. The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
2. A manufacturing process using a mold.
3. (countable) An object made in a mold.
   • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:

     The practice of casting steel seems the most difficult of all the foundry arts, for despite every care, a percentage of the work is liable to be faulty and disappointing, but at Crewe, generally, a very good class of casting was turned out.

4. The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^[W]
5. The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
6. (programming) The act of converting between data types.
7. (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:

     "The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot. This time there was no stopping or casting, but the hounds were soon in full cry, and after half-an-hour's run, the hare came dancing down the moor towards me."

• (selection of performers): audition

• actings

Borrowed from English casting.

• IPA^(key): /kas.tiŋ/

casting m (plural castings)

1. casting (selection of actors)

• “casting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English casting.

casting m (invariable)

1. casting (selection of actors)

• kasting

Unadapted borrowing from English casting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.tiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -astiŋk
• Syllabification: cas‧ting

casting m inan

1. casting (selection of performers)

• casting in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• casting in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From English casting.

casting n (uncountable)

1. casting

• cásting (nonstandard)
• castin

Unadapted borrowing from English casting.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastin/ [ˈkas.t̪ĩn]
• Rhymes: -astin

casting m (plural castings)

1. casting

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “casting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014