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cast·a·way
(kăst′ə-wā′)adj.
1. Cast adrift or ashore; shipwrecked.
2. Discarded; thrown away.
n.
1. A shipwrecked person.
2. A rejected or discarded person or thing.
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castaway
(ˈkɑːstəˌweɪ)n
1. a person who has been shipwrecked
2. something thrown off or away; castoff
adj (prenominal)
3. (Nautical Terms) shipwrecked or put adrift
4. thrown away or rejected
vb
(Nautical Terms) (tr, adverb; often passive) to cause (a ship, person, etc) to be shipwrecked or abandoned
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cast•a•way
(ˈkæst əˌweɪ, ˈkɑst-)n.
1. a shipwrecked person.
2. anything cast adrift or thrown away.
3. an outcast.
adj. 4. cast adrift.
5. thrown away.
[1520–30]
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Noun | 1. | castaway - a person who is rejected (from society or home) unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast - a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church leper - a pariah who is avoided by others Harijan, untouchable - belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India |
2. | castaway - a shipwrecked person abandoned person - someone for whom hope has been abandoned |
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Translations
النّاجي مِن سَفينَةٍ غارِقَه
trosečník
skibbruden
hajótöröttkitaszított
skipbrotsmaîur
castaway
[ˈkɑːstəweɪ] N → náufrago/a m/fCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
castaway
n (lit, fig) → Schiffbrüchige(r) mf
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
castaway
[ˈkæstəweɪ] n → naufrago/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
cast
(kaːst) – past tense past participle cast – verb1. to throw. The angler cast his line into the river; These facts cast new light on the matter; She cast him a look of hatred.
2. to get rid of; to take off. Some snakes cast their skins.
3. to shape (metal etc) by pouring into a mould. Metal is melted before it is cast.
4. to give a part in a play etc to. She was cast as Lady Macbeth.
5. to select the actors for (a film etc). The director is casting (the film) tomorrow.
6. to give (a vote). I cast my vote for the younger candidate.
noun1. a throw. At his third cast he caught a fish.
2. something made by moulding. The doctor put a plaster cast on his broken leg.
3. a mould. The hot metal is poured into a cast.
4. the complete set of actors in a play, opera etc. the whole cast of the play.
5. something that is ejected by certain animals, eg the earthworm. worm casts all over the grass.
ˈcastaway noun a shipwrecked person.
casting vote the deciding vote of the chairman of a meeting when the other votes are equally divided.
cast iron unpurified iron melted and shaped in a mould.
ˈcast-iron adjective1. made of cast iron. a cast-iron frying-pan.
2. very strong. cast-iron muscles.
ˈcast-off noun, adjective (a piece of clothing etc) no longer needed. cast-off clothes; I don't want my sister's cast-offs.
cast off1. to untie (the mooring lines of a boat).
2. (also cast aside) to reject as unwanted.
3. in knitting, to finish (the final row of stitches).
cast on in knitting, to make the first row of stitches.
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