cast off
English
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Verb
[edit]cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past and past participle cast off or casted off)
- (transitive) To discard or reject something.
- 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:
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
- (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
- (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
- 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (knitting): bind off
Translations
[edit]discard or reject
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to let go
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finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them from the needle