"cast off" meaning in English

See cast off in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: casts off [present, singular, third-person], casting off [participle, present], cast off [past], casted off [past], cast off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|cast<,,cast> off|past2=casted off}} cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past cast off or casted off, past participle cast off)
  1. (transitive) To discard or reject something. Tags: transitive Translations (discard or reject): forigi (Esperanto), hylätä (Finnish), abandonner (French), rexeitar (Galician), ledob (Hungarian), levetkőz (Hungarian), megszabadul (Hungarian), levet (Hungarian), elvet (Hungarian), sutba dob (Hungarian), eldob (Hungarian), kiselejtez (Hungarian), elhajít (Hungarian), repudiō (Latin), ākiri (Maori), rechaçar (Portuguese), descartar (Portuguese), eliminar (Portuguese), odvrhnúť (Slovak), zavrhnúť (Slovak), rechazar (Spanish), descartar (Spanish), eliminar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-cast_off-en-verb-JlR6GE0C Disambiguation of 'discard or reject': 73 21 4 2
  2. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way. Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (to let go): trossen los (Dutch), irrottaa (Finnish), larguer les amarres (French), Leinen los (German), elold (Hungarian), huhu (Maori), desamarrar (Spanish), levantar amarras (Spanish), soltar las amarras (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-cast_off-en-verb-rrQR1uKD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "off", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 53 18 20 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "off": 7 55 17 21 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 46 27 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 54 18 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 60 16 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 5 54 25 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 10 50 20 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 7 54 20 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 50 22 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 11 47 24 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 7 50 22 21 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 7 49 23 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 20 42 19 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 7 50 22 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 7 52 23 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 7 50 22 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 54 20 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 7 50 22 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 7 49 18 26 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'to let go': 6 89 2 3
  3. (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Knitting Translations (finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle): lukke af (Danish), afkanten (Dutch), päätellä (Finnish), päättää (Finnish), fermer (French), rabattre (French), abketten (German), levesz (Hungarian), caith lúb anuas (Irish), kamo (Maori)
    Sense id: en-cast_off-en-verb-HLCELUxc Topics: business, knitting, manufacturing, textiles Disambiguation of 'finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle': 3 4 91 2
  4. (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Printing
    Sense id: en-cast_off-en-verb-UIWhLOD- Topics: media, printing, publishing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bind off [knitting, textiles, manufacturing, business] Related terms: cast on, castoff, offthrow

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.",
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          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.",
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        "(transitive) To discard or reject something."
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          "word": "rexeitar"
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          "word": "sutba dob"
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          "word": "kiselejtez"
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          "word": "elhajít"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 4 2",
          "code": "la",
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          "word": "repudiō"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 4 2",
          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "discard or reject",
          "word": "ākiri"
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          "_dis1": "73 21 4 2",
          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "discard or reject",
          "word": "rechaçar"
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        "To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
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          "let go",
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          "cable",
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        [
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        "(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
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        "transitive"
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          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "trossen los"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "irrottaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "larguer les amarres"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "Leinen los"
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        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "elold"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "huhu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "desamarrar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "levantar amarras"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 89 2 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to let go",
          "word": "soltar las amarras"
        }
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            "Society",
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        "To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle."
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        "(intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle."
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          "_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
          "word": "lukke af"
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          "word": "afkanten"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "päätellä"
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          "word": "päättää"
        },
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          "_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
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          "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
          "word": "fermer"
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          "_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
          "word": "rabattre"
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          "_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
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          "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
          "word": "abketten"
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          "_dis1": "3 4 91 2",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
          "word": "levesz"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
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          "word": "caith lúb anuas"
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          "lang": "Maori",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:",
          "text": "To conserve type, copy was \"cast off\"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "space",
          "space"
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          "type",
          "type"
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        "(printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy."
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      "word": "bind off"
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  "word": "cast off"
}
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    {
      "word": "cast on"
    },
    {
      "word": "castoff"
    },
    {
      "word": "offthrow"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To discard or reject something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discard",
          "discard"
        ],
        [
          "reject",
          "reject"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To discard or reject something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "let go",
          "let go"
        ],
        [
          "cable",
          "cable"
        ],
        [
          "rope",
          "rope"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ],
        [
          "buoy",
          "buoy"
        ],
        [
          "wharf",
          "wharf"
        ],
        [
          "make way",
          "make way"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "en:Knitting"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "knitting",
          "knitting#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "row",
          "row"
        ],
        [
          "knitted",
          "knitted"
        ],
        [
          "stitch",
          "stitch"
        ],
        [
          "needle",
          "needle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "knitting",
        "manufacturing",
        "textiles"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Printing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:",
          "text": "To conserve type, copy was \"cast off\"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "printing",
          "printing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "estimate",
          "estimate"
        ],
        [
          "space",
          "space"
        ],
        [
          "type",
          "type"
        ],
        [
          "copy",
          "copy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "knitting",
        "textiles",
        "manufacturing",
        "business"
      ],
      "word": "bind off"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "forigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "hylätä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "abandonner"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "rexeitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "ledob"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "levetkőz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "megszabadul"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "levet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "elvet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "sutba dob"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "eldob"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "kiselejtez"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "elhajít"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "repudiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "ākiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "rechaçar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "descartar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "eliminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "odvrhnúť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "zavrhnúť"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "rechazar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "descartar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "discard or reject",
      "word": "eliminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "trossen los"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "irrottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "larguer les amarres"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "Leinen los"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "elold"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "huhu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "desamarrar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "levantar amarras"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to let go",
      "word": "soltar las amarras"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "lukke af"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "afkanten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "päätellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "päättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "fermer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "rabattre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "abketten"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "levesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "caith lúb anuas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle",
      "word": "kamo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cast off"
}

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