Associations to the word «Recasting»

Wiktionary

RECAST, verb. To cast or throw again.
RECAST, verb. To mould again.
RECAST, verb. To reproduce in a new form.
RECAST, noun. The act or process of recasting.
RECAST, noun. (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

Dictionary definition

RECAST, verb. Cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago".
RECAST, verb. Cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast".
RECAST, verb. Cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats