Definition of "recast"

recast

/ɹiːˈkɑːst/

verb
third-person singular simple present recasts, present participle recasting, simple past and past participle recast
1. To cast or throw again.
  Quotations
  the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
2. To mould again.
3. To reproduce in a new form.
  Quotations
  Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts [translating umgiesst] the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
  1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 33
  ScotRail is seeking the views of the public before recasting its Edinburgh/Perth/Dundee passenger timetable in 2025, once the reopened Levenmouth line has bedded in.
  2023 October 4, “Network News: Fife services in line for boost after Levenmouth opening?”, in RAIL, number 993, page 8
4. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
  Quotations
  According to As the World Turns producer, Michael Laibson, the decision was made to recast the role, because the producers and writers felt it would annoy the audience to have Betsy discontinued so soon after her long-delayed marriage […]
  2002, Robert C. Allen, To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World, Routledge, page 153
5. (transitive, film, theater) To assign (actors) to different roles.
noun
plural recasts
1. The act or process of recasting.
2. (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

Definition of "recast"

recast

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