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o·ver·cast    Audio Help   [adj. oh-ver-kast, -kahst, oh-ver-kast, -kahst; v. oh-ver-kast, -kahst, oh-ver-kast, -kahst; n. oh-ver-kast, -kahst] Pronunciation Key adjective, verb, -cast, -cast·ing, noun
–adjective
1.overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy: an overcast day.
2.Meteorology. (of the sky) more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
3.dark; gloomy.
4.Sewing. sewn by overcasting.
–verb (used with object)
5.to overcloud, darken, or make gloomy: Ominous clouds began to overcast the sky.
6.to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, esp. long stitches set at intervals to prevent raveling.
–verb (used without object)
7.to become cloudy or dark: By noon it had begun to overcast.
–noun
8.Meteorology. the condition of the sky when more than 95 percent covered by clouds.
9.Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level, in which one rises to pass over the other without opening into it. Compare undercast (def. 1).

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME (v.); see over-, cast]
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o·ver·cast    Audio Help   (ō'vər-kāst', ō'vər-kāst')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
    1. Covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist.
    2. Clouded over.
  1. Gloomy; melancholy.
  2. Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.

n.   (ō'vər-kāst')
  1. A covering, as of mist or clouds.
  2. An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.
  3. A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.
  4. An overcast stitch or seam.

v.   (ō'vər-kāst', ō'vər-kāst') o·ver·cast, o·ver·cast·ing, o·ver·casts

v.   tr.
  1. To make cloudy or gloomy.
  2. To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.
  3. To sew with long, overlying stitches.

v.   intr.
To become cloudy or gloomy.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
overcast  (adj.)
1569, originally pp. of verb overcast (c.1290), "to cover, to overspread" as with a garment, usually of weather, from over + cast (q.v.). Earliest sense of the verb (c.1225) was "to overthrow."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
overcast

adjective
1. filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered

noun
1. the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds [syn: cloudiness
2. gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover [syn: cloudiness
3. a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling 
4. a cast that falls beyond the intended spot 

verb
1. make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches" [ant: brighten
2. sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches 
3. sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
overcast [əuvəˈkaːst] adjective
cloudy
Example: on a slightly overcast day
Arabic: مُظْلِم، مُعْتِم، مُتَلَبِّد بالغُيوم
Chinese (Simplified): 阴天的,多云的
Chinese (Traditional): 陰天的,多雲的
Czech: zatažený
Danish: overskyet
Dutch: bewolkt
Estonian: pilves
Finnish: pilvinen
French: couvert
German: bedeckt
Greek: συννεφιασμένος
Hungarian: felhős
Icelandic: skÿjaður
Indonesian: berawan
Italian: coperto
Japanese: くもった
Korean: 구름으로 덮인; 흐린
Latvian: apmācies, mākoņains
Lithuanian: apsiniaukęs, debesuotas
Norwegian: overskyet
Polish: zachmurzony
Portuguese (Brazil): nublado
Portuguese (Portugal): nublado
Romanian: înnorat
Russian: покрытый облаками
Slovak: zamračený
Slovenian: oblačen
Spanish: nublado, cubierto
Swedish: mulen
Turkish: bulutlu
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Overcast

O`ver*cast"\, v. t. (Bookbinding) To fasten, as single sheets, by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Overcast

O`ver*cast"\, v. t. 1. To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

Those clouds that overcast your morn shall fly. --Dryden.

2. To compute or rate too high. --Bacon.

3. (Sewing) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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