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Castling vs Casting - What's the difference?

castling | casting |

As nouns the difference between castling and casting

is that castling is (obsolete) an abortion, or a premature birth or castling can be (chess) a move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle while casting is casting.

castling

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) An abortion, or a premature birth.
  • * 1646': Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a '''castling ’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Book II, ch 5
  • (obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
  • A miniature cast or mould.
  • * 2009 , Danielle Devon, Divinity in Chains - Page 6 :
  • From the Celeste's own image was the first castling' molded. A soft, delicate creature of flesh and blood she would call Woman. So that Her ' castlings may never feel the loneliness she Herself did suffer, she bestowed woman with a mate [...]
  • One that is cast.
  • * 1678 , Claude Saumaise, Funus linguae hellenisticae :
  • [...] shift for themselves, and seek out new habitations; such castlings might in their waudring throughout the South Sea (most of the Oriental Islands being formerly inhabited by by their Off-spring) fall with the coast of Term Primitive Language.

    Etymology 2

    From castle .

    Noun

    (castling) (en-noun)
  • (chess) A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle .
  • Anagrams

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    casting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
  • A manufacturing process using a mold.
  • The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.
  • The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
  • (computing) The act of converting between data types.
  • Synonyms

    * (selection of performers) audition

    Derived terms

    * leafcasting * ray casting

    Anagrams

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