caster
See also: Caster
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/, /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkæstɚ/
- Homophone: castor
- Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Noun edit
caster (plural casters)
- Someone or something that casts.
- a caster of spells
- a caster of stones
- a caster of bronze statuary
- 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231:
- She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
- A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).
- Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
- 1980 August 30, Nancy Walker, “My Boss Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 7:
- I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
- A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
- Synonym: cruet
- a set of casters
- 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:
- Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
- 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business[1]:
- She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
- A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
- (automotive) The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
someone or something that casts
wheeled assembly
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shaker with perforated top
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See also edit
Verb edit
caster (third-person singular simple present casters, present participle castering, simple past and past participle castered)
- To act as a caster
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
caster
- (transitive) to cast (a spell)
- (transitive, film) to cast (into a role)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of caster (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | caster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | castant /kas.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | casté /kas.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | caste /kast/ |
castes /kast/ |
caste /kast/ |
castons /kas.tɔ̃/ |
castez /kas.te/ |
castent /kast/ |
| imperfect | castais /kas.tɛ/ |
castais /kas.tɛ/ |
castait /kas.tɛ/ |
castions /kas.tjɔ̃/ |
castiez /kas.tje/ |
castaient /kas.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | castai /kas.te/ |
castas /kas.ta/ |
casta /kas.ta/ |
castâmes /kas.tam/ |
castâtes /kas.tat/ |
castèrent /kas.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | casterai /kas.tə.ʁe/ |
casteras /kas.tə.ʁa/ |
castera /kas.tə.ʁa/ |
casterons /kas.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
casterez /kas.tə.ʁe/ |
casteront /kas.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | casterais /kas.tə.ʁɛ/ |
casterais /kas.tə.ʁɛ/ |
casterait /kas.tə.ʁɛ/ |
casterions /kas.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
casteriez /kas.tə.ʁje/ |
casteraient /kas.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | caste /kast/ |
castes /kast/ |
caste /kast/ |
castions /kas.tjɔ̃/ |
castiez /kas.tje/ |
castent /kast/ |
| imperfect2 | castasse /kas.tas/ |
castasses /kas.tas/ |
castât /kas.ta/ |
castassions /kas.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
castassiez /kas.ta.sje/ |
castassent /kas.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caste /kast/ |
— | castons /kas.tɔ̃/ |
castez /kas.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||