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The youngest of the cast is Russian actor Anton Yelchin who plays officer Pavel Chekov.

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  1. transitive verb To throw (something, especially something light): The angler cast the line.
  2. transitive verb To throw with force; hurl: waves that cast driftwood far up on the shore. See Synonyms at throw.
  3. transitive verb To shed; molt.
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  • One of the trickiest hurdles for the cast is the Midlands accent, and not all the actors were successful all the time, making some stretches tough going.
  • The youngest of the cast is Russian actor Anton Yelchin who plays officer Pavel Chekov. —  Home | Mail Online
  • While the cast is the public face of the Hasty Pudding, the crew and the band are just as important-and mischievous. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
  • Included in the cast are my sisters Heidi and Kristi (pictured in the Hutchinson News photo) and Trippy Schrock (who is living with us). —  HansMast.com
  • "No, I just know that the cast has been asked not to talk about it, so I'm officially not talking about it." —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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one ·  shoot ·  fall ·  look ·  figure ·  light ·  shadow ·  thrust ·  ring ·  half ·  put ·  feature

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cast:   casting ·  casts
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English casten, from Old Norse kasta.

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  1. from Middle English casten, kesten, from Icelandic kasta = Swedish kasta= Danish kaste, throw; a purely Scandinavian word, not found in the other Teutonic tongues, where the orig. word for ‘throw’ is warp with its cognates.
  2. Pp. of cast, v.
  3. from cast, v.
 

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