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View synonyms for type-cast

type-cast

[ tahyp-kast, -kahst ]

verb (used with or without object)

, type-cast, type-cast·ing.
  1. to cast (type).


adjective

  1. (of text to be printed) having the type already cast.

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Other Words From

  • type-caster noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of type-cast1

First recorded in 1875–80

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Example Sentences

Romney, however, seems already type-cast as a dangerously out-of-touch Richie Rich.

The foregoing refers more particularly to type cast by the regular foundries.

Linotype Baskerville is a facsimile cutting from type cast from the original matrices of a face designed by John Baskerville.

With type cast in this new way the firm printed the first page of their Bible in the spring of 1450.

He also issued in 1767 an edition of the Psalms in metre, one of the earliest books printed from type cast in America.

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