casting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cast

plural castings

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.

   Synonyms: audition

2. countableuncountableA manufacturing process using a mold.
3. countableAn object made in a mold.

   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.

   1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

4. countableuncountablefalconryThe regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.

   “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass? and thou hast neglected its castings also for these two days.[…]”

   1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83

5. countableuncountableThe excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
6. countableuncountablecomputingThe act of converting between data types.
7. countableuncountablehobbiesOf hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.

   "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."

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77