cast

cast
cast noun, caste
1. The noun cast is derived from the verb and has a number of special meanings, including the actors of a play or film, an object made in metal, and its use as in a person of a moral cast, plus a host of curious technical meanings (e.g. in hawking).
2. Caste, referring to class divisions in India, is now the established spelling, although cast is much more common before 1800. It is derived from Spanish and Portuguese casta, ‘race, lineage’, and is related to chaste.
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cast verb.
This Old Norse word has competed for centuries with Anglo-Saxon throw, and its credentials include an array of 83 meanings in the OED. In current usage, however, it often sounds archaic or rhetorical, influenced by the New Testament

• He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone —John 8:7

and is largely restricted to a range of familiar phrases and idioms, such as cast an eye over, cast lots, and cast aside. In ordinary contexts, throw is the more natural word.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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