Meaning

7 senses

  1. A cast; a throw.

  2. The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.

    air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine

  3. A current of air passed along such a shaft.

  4. (Scotland)An upset, as from a carriage.

  5. (Scotland)A taunt; a reproach.

  6. A cast from subtype to supertype.

  7. A message transmitted via upcasting.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Tom upcasted the variable.

    Том привів змінну до базового типу. — deniko

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Origin

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

From Middle English upcasten, equivalent to up- + cast.

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Forms

plural: upcasts
Singularupcast
Pluralupcasts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
upcast pitupcast shaft

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
upA2upbeatupcomingupdateB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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