Upcast
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A cast; a throw.
"When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away"
- 2 air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine wordnet
- 3 The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
- 4 A current of air passed along such a shaft.
- 5 An upset, as from a carriage. Scotland
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- 6 A taunt; a reproach. Scotland
"for what with the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the wee bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already."
- 7 A cast from subtype to supertype.
- 8 A message transmitted via upcasting.
- 1 To cast or throw up; to turn upward. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. Scotland, transitive
- 3 To cast from subtype to supertype. transitive
- 4 To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft
- 1 Cast up; thrown upward.
"Old Saturn too with upcast eyes Beheld his abdicated skies"
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More examples"It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep / from access of the winds, but looming vast / with awful ravage, AEtna's neighbouring steep / thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast / smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast. / Live balls of flame, with showers of sparks, upflew / and licked the stars, and in combustion massed, / torn rocks, her ragged entrails, molten new, / the rumbling mount belched forth from out the boiling stew."
Etymology
From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.
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