Recast

/ɹiːˈkɑːst/ · verb

Meaning

To cast or throw again..

Definitions by Sense

1. To cast or throw again.
2. To mould again.
3. To reproduce in a new form.
4. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
5. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (actors) to different roles.
6. The act or process of recasting.
7. (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

Example Sentences

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 [translating umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.

ScotRail is seeking the views of the public before recasting its Edinburgh/Perth/Dundee passenger timetable in 2025, once the reopened Levenmouth line has bedded in.

According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]

She was recast as the villain.

Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.

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• recasts
• recasting
• recast
• recasted

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