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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.
Gloomy; melancholy.
Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.

n. (ō'vər-kāst')

A covering, as of mist or clouds.
An arch or support for a passage over another passage in a mine.
A cast made in fishing that falls beyond the point intended.
An overcast stitch or seam.

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

v. tr.

To make cloudy or gloomy.
To cast beyond (the intended point) with a fishing rod.
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."

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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"

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