| BACKCAST | • backcast v. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future. • backcast v. (UK dialectal) To change retrospectively; reverse. • backcast n. A cast or throw back. |
| BELLCAST | • BELLCAST adj. designating a style of roof architecture. |
| DOWNCAST | • downcast adj. (Of eyes) Looking downwards. • downcast adj. (Of a person) Feeling despondent. • downcast n. (Computing) A cast from supertype to subtype. |
| ENDOCAST | • endocast n. A cast made of the mould formed by the impression the brain makes on the inside of the neurocranium… • ENDOCAST n. a cast of the cranial cavity. |
| FORECAST | • forecast v. To estimate how something will be in the future. • forecast v. To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance. • forecast v. (Obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand. |
| HINDCAST | • hindcast n. (Mathematics) A test of a mathematical model by using data from a past event. • hindcast v. To test a mathematical model by using data from a past event. • HINDCAST v. to test a mathematical model by inputting known or closely estimated data for past events to see how well the output matches the known results. |
| MOLECAST | • molecast n. A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. • MOLECAST n. a little elevation of earth made by a mole, also MOLEHILL. |
| NEWSCAST | • newscast n. (Broadcasting, journalism) A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for… • newscast v. (Transitive) To broadcast the news. • NEWSCAST n. a news broadcast. |
| OPENCAST | • opencast adj. (Chiefly Britain) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed. • open-cast adj. Alternative form of opencast. • OPENCAST adj. excavated from an open air site. |
| OVERCAST | • overcast n. (Obsolete) An outcast. • overcast n. A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon; cloudy. • overcast adj. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds. |
| TELECAST | • telecast v. (Transitive) To broadcast by television. • telecast v. (Intransitive) To broadcast a television program. • telecast n. A television broadcast, especially outside of a studio. |
| TYPECAST | • typecast v. (Acting) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. • typecast v. To identify one as being of a specific type because of one’s appearance, colour, religion etc. • typecast v. (Programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object). |
| WORMCAST | • wormcast n. A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm. • worm␣cast n. Soil excreted by a worm and carried to the surface. • WORMCAST n. a spiral heap of earth left by a burrowing worm. |