Definitions for upcast

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upcast up·cast

Spelling: [uhp-kast, -kahst]

IPA: /ˈʌpˌkæst, -ˌkɑst/

Upcast is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in upcast (acpstu).

Definitions for upcast

noun

1. an act of casting upward.
2. the state of being cast upward.
3. something that is cast or thrown up, as soil or earth in digging.
4. a shaft or passage up which air passes, as from a mine (opposed to downcast).

adjective

1. cast up; directed or thrown upward:

verb (used with object)

1. to cast up or upward.

Origin of upcast

1300-50; Middle English upcasten (v.). See up-, cast

Examples for upcast

One of the working galleries in connexion with the upcast and downcast.

Caleb's gentle frown was the upcast of paternal bewilderment, partly prideful, partly disconcerting.

I see one of the cages is at bank, and the force of the explosion is in the upcast shaft.

As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.

The fire should be kept as thin and bright as possible, to reduce the amount of smoke in the upcast.

A dislocation is spoken of as a downthrow or an upcast, according to the direction in which it is approached.

But there was not one of them whose eyes were not upcast at Zuleika.

The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.

I should require to know the temperature of the shafts respectively, and the height of the upcast shaft.