Recast Definition
rē-kăst
recasting, recasts
verb
recasting, recasts
To mold again.
Recast a bell.
American Heritage
To cast again or anew.
Webster's New World
To set down or present (ideas, for example) in a new or different arrangement.
Recast a sentence.
American Heritage
To improve the form of by redoing; reconstruct.
To recast a sentence.
Webster's New World
To calculate or count again.
Webster's New World
noun
The act of recasting.
Webster's New World
A new form produced by recasting.
Webster's New World
(linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.
Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Recast
Noun
Singular:
recast
Plural:
recastsOrigin of Recast
-
From re- +"Ž cast.
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