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precast

Syllables: pre·castUK/pɹiːˈkɑːst/US/pɹiˈkæst/

precast adjective: cast previously in another location.

Adjective

precast (not comparable)

  1. Cast previously in another location.
    • The bridge used precast concrete girders.
    • The new culvert, 200 ft. long, was constructed with precast reinforced concrete segments, similar to those used in building the London tube railway tunnels, and is being lined internally with reinforced concrete placed in situ to give a finished internal diameter of 9 ft.1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709
    Antonyms:
    cast-in-place

Noun

precast (countable and uncountable, plural precasts)

  1. Structural members made of concrete, ready for installation.

Verb

precast (third-person singular simple present precasts, present participle precasting, simple past and past participle precast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) precasted)

  1. (transitive) To cast in a location other than where to be installed.

precast meaning in Tamil

precast in Tamil

முன் வார்ப்பு, முன் வார்த்த, முன்வார்ப்பு

Examples of precast in a sentence

  • Except that in their case, the logs are made from precast concrete shaped and painted to look like the real thing.2009 January 22, Jim Robbins, “The Logless Log Home”, in New York Times:
  • Each TBM installs two-metre-wide rings made up of seven precast concrete segments produced on-site.2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52. photo caption:

Antonyms of precast

Forms of precast

Noun
pluralprecasts
Verb
third-person singular presentprecasts
present participleprecasting
past participleprecast
pastprecast
past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesprecasted
past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimesprecasted

Origin of precast

From pre- + cast.

Words that rhyme with precast

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about precast

What does precast mean?
Precast means cast previously in another location.
What is precast in Tamil?
Precast in Tamil is முன் வார்ப்பு, முன் வார்த்த, முன்வார்ப்பு. See Precast meaning in Tamil.
How do you use precast in a sentence?
Except that in their case, the logs are made from precast concrete shaped and painted to look like the real thing.
What part of speech is precast?
Precast can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce precast?
Precast is pronounced /pɹiˈkæst/ (US).

Words near precast in the dictionary

  1. precarization
  2. precarizations
  3. precarized
  4. precarnival
  5. precartilaginous
  6. precast
  7. precasting
  8. precastration
  9. precasts
  10. precataclysmic
  11. precatalyst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precast (page history and authors); precast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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