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Definition of Typecast

1. Verb. Cast repeatedly in the same kind of role.

2. Verb. Identify as belonging to a certain type. "Such people can practically be typed"

Definition of Typecast

1. Verb. To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. ¹

2. Verb. To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc. ¹

3. Verb. (computing programming) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Typecast

1. to cast in an acting role befitting one's own nature [v -CAST, -CASTING, -CASTS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Typecast

type metal type of architecture type safety type series type species type specimen type strain type system type systems typeable

typeahead typebar typebars typecase typecases typecast (current term) typecasted typecasting typecasts typed

typedef typedefs typeface typefaces typefounder typefounders typefounding typefoundings typeful typeless

Literary usage of Typecast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mastering C++ by K. R. Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, T. Ravishankar, Shaduli Vanimal (muhammad Ali Shaduli) (1997)
"The compiler can be instructed explicitly to perform type conversion using the type conversion operators known as typecast operators. ..."

2. My Life in Germany Before and After January 30, 1933: A Guide to a by Harry Liebersohn, Dorothee Schneider (2001)
"... or to typecast them as Jews (assimilated, religious, Zionist, etc.) would be to distort or deny their self-image. At the same time they remind us of die ..."

3. Lost Crops of Africa: Grains edited by F. R. Ruskin (1999)
"The plant has been typecast as a source of brooms and brushes, but it could very well have other equally important uses. For instance. broomcorn stalks are ..."

4. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1852)
"Punches and matrices are formed, and typecast; paper of an inferior quality is made, and plain book-binding work is very neatly executed. ..."

5. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"... often fitting into typecast roles: for example, Ananie Nkurunziza, a former intelligence officer, as the serious political analyst; and editor-in-chief ..."

6. 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting by Linda S. Boersma (1994)
"... first 'painterly' reliefs betray the influence of Cubism, it belittles his work to typecast them as imitation Picassos. Tallin laid much greater stress ..."

7. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"The size and shape of the manuscript are preserved; and the printing is from the typecast for the imperial Russian edition of the ..."

8. State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 by Sakhela Buhlungu (2007)
"... national team find themselves increasingly typecast as 'quota players' or 'speedsters out on the wing'. Perhaps more pertinent in terms of the growth of ..."

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