Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word DOWNCAST

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Definitions of DOWNCAST

1. Of the eyes, a facial expression, etc.: looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
2. Of a person or thing: cast or thrown to the ground.
3. Of a thing: directed downwards.
4. (figurative)
5. (geology, obsolete) Synonym of downthrow
6. (countable) An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.
7. (countable, archaic)
8. (countable, computing) A cast from supertype to subtype.
9. (countable, mining, chiefly, attributive) A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
10. To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
11. To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).
12. To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).
13. (figurative) To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.
14. (computing) To cast (a data type) from supertype to subtype.
15. (Scotland) To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).
16. (obsolete) To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes, reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.

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Examples of Using DOWNCAST in a Sentence

• Other events also celebrated the village's centenary year, including a party and firework display in Bowburn Park, exactly 100 years after Gertrude Bell (as daughter of the Chairman of Bell Brothers) cut the first sod on 23 July 1906 to commence the sinking of the downcast shaft.
• The "second act" corresponded to the so-called "Moscow period" that started with The Demon Seated of 1890, followed by Vrubel's 1896 marriage to the opera singer Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, his longtime sitter, and ended in 1902 with The Demon Downcast and the subsequent hospitalization of the artist.
• The crouching, bedraggled form with downcast head obscured by matted hair is one of his best known images.
• Yet with half of the woman's face in shadow, it is "impossible to tell whether her downcast eyes and pursed lips express wistfulness or concentration," she wrote.
• A furnace was kept burning within the pit and the hot air rose up the one side of the brattice (the upcast side) drawing cold air down the other (the downcast side).
• In The Return of John Macnab three rather downcast friends (a copywriter whose wife has died suddenly on a plane flight; an ex-Special Forces soldier with a marital crisis; and a jaundiced left-wing joiner) decide to revive Buchan’s novel.
• In early 1990, McClard, a former Maximumrocknroll columnist, teamed up with Sonia Skindrud, the writer of the zine, Exedra, and Brent Stephens, a member of Downcast, to establish Ebullition Records.
• " The Guardian said the song "sounds blissful – as if specifically designed to waft out of radios during the sweltering summer of 1976 – but the lyrics are a rueful, downcast cautionary tale of 'lost and lonely' marital discord and years 'filled with tears'.
• The song, which is dominated by its downcast reflective verses in A-minor and neatly complemented by its interjecting upbeat chorus in A-major, was the second major song Gouldman wrote for Herman's Hermits (the previous being "Listen People", a US #3).
• The AristoMedia Group is comprised specifically of the following branded divisions and services: Aristo PR (publicity), AristoVision (Christian video promotion), AristoVideo (Country video promotion), AristoWorks (new media services), The Goodland Group (video reel distribution), Jeff Walker & Associates (international and domestic entertainment consultation), Marco Music Group (secondary radio promotion), Marco Club Connection (dance club venue marketing), The Goodland Group (music publishing) and DownCast (video content and EPK distribution service).
• The downcast (Busty) shaft suffered damage all the way to the surface, and then the casing between the pit top and the heapstead was blown down.
• " Nikki Baughan of Screen International wrote in his Fantasia International Film Festival review, "Working without dialogue, Yoo Ah-in resists the easy temptation of extreme physical expression; instead, he deploys restraint in his movements, conveying Tae-in's soul-destroying lack of options in his hangdog expression, his downcast eyes, his frantic attempts to cover up bloodstains in the dust.
• The man on the left is smoking a pipe, wearing a tophat with a downcast brim, in darker, more formal clothing, seated upright; the man to the right is pipeless, in a shorter hat with upcast brim, lighter, more loosely fit clothing, and hunched over the table.
• The heart must resolve to leave sin and be remorseful, while the eyes should be downcast; the hands should cease to grasp; the feet should stop hurrying, and the ears should stop trying to listen in.
• He concluded with "Evol doesn't break any rules or set many new ones, but as the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of wonders Future and his team wield in their creation of druggy, downcast afterparty dispatches, it is a joy".
• The type of the Neapolitan who is not a genuine Italian is marked by a low forehead, small sharp nose, small mouth, small piercing black eyes, prominent cheek-bones, under-sized in stature, with a slinking downcast air when composed, and most violently gesticulative when excited in conversation.
• It depicts a First World War soldier, wearing boots, puttees, greatcoat and tin hat, sitting on an ammunition box, with downcast eyes, holding the barrel of his grounded rifle in his right hand.
• Vertumnus and Pomona is painted in the style typical of the Leonardeschi, utilizing Leonardo da Vinci's female facial type with downcast eyes and tight smile, Leonardo's sfumato technique, and reflecting Leonardo's observation of botany.
• " Kellman stated that the album consists of "mostly downcast verses and boastful non-sequiturs over torpid booming rhythms.

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