Definitions for upcasts

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upcasts up·cast

Spelling: [uhp-kast, -kahst]

IPA: /ˈʌpˌkæst, -ˌkɑst/

Upcasts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in upcasts (acpsstu).

Definitions for upcasts

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 upcasts

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

Examples for upcasts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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