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typecasted

typecasted is the simple past and past participle of typecast.

Meaning of typecast

Verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) typecasted)

  1. To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
  2. To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
    • The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World
  3. To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
    • Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
  4. (historical) To found type in a mold.
    • Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116

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Questions about typecasted

What is typecasted the simple past and past participle of?
Typecasted is the simple past and past participle of typecast.

Words near typecasted in the dictionary

  1. typebar
  2. typebars
  3. typecase
  4. typecases
  5. typecast
  6. typecasted
  7. typecasting
  8. typecastings
  9. typecasts
  10. typecheck
  11. typechecked

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