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Gießen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cast verb To throw something, especially with some force or intent.
  • casting noun The process of choosing actors, models, or performers for roles in a film, show, or advert.
  • pelt noun The skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still attached.
  • pour verb To make a liquid flow steadily out of or into a container.
  • teem verb To be stocked to overflowing.
  • Water noun The clear liquid (H2O) that falls as rain and fills rivers, lakes, and seas, essential to all known life.
  • watering noun The act of pouring or supplying water onto something, such as plants or land.

Senses

Gießen is used for these senses in English:

  • cast To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way. [from 15th c.]
  • casting A manufacturing process using a mold.
  • pelt Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
  • pour (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
  • water (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
  • watering An act of watering, i.e. pouring water on something, or diluting a liquid.

cast — full definition

  1. verb To throw something, especially with some force or intent.
  2. verb To choose actors for the roles in a play, film, or show.
  3. verb To shape a liquid material, especially molten metal, by pouring it into a mould.
  4. noun The group of actors performing in a play, film, or show.
  5. noun A rigid support, often plaster, used to hold a broken bone in place while it heals.

casting — full definition

  1. noun The process of choosing actors, models, or performers for roles in a film, show, or advert.
  2. noun An object made by pouring molten metal or another liquid material into a mould and letting it set.
  3. noun In programming, the act of converting a value from one data type to another.

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