See Also: concordance(dictionary)
concordance(dictionary)
Concordance(health)
concordance(medicine)
concordance rate(medicine)
cast(1)(dictionary)
cast(2)(dictionary)
cast down(dictionary)
cast-off(dictionary)
cast-off(dictionary)

cast(2) (iou) and concordance (oh)


cast(2) (iou)



cast ppl adjective. [k¨»:st] LME.
[pa. pple of CAST verb.]
That has been cast.
Special collocations & comb.: cast-for-age adjective (Austral. & NZ) (of a sheep) disposed of because too old. cast iron a hard alloy of iron, carbon (in greater proportion than in steel), and silicon, cast in a mould (malleable cast iron: see MALLEABLE 1). cast-iron adjective made of cast iron; fig. hard, unchangeable, impregnable. cast steel steel made by melting and casting blister steel. See also CASTAWAY, CAST-OFF.

concordance (oh)



[C] an alphabetical list of all the words used in a book or set of books, with information about where they can be found and usually about how they are used
::a Shakespeare concordance
concordance to
::a concordance to the Bible
[C] a list of all the words in a book, magazine etc, held on a computer database, showing every example of a particular word in the book etc
::concordance lines
[U] formal the state of being similar to something else or in agreement with it
::the concordance between the proposals