upcast

Adjective

upcast (comparative more upcast, superlative most upcast)

1. Cast up; thrown upward.
   • Old Saturn too with upcast eyes
     Beheld his abdicated skiesa. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, “To Sir Godfrey Knelle”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]...

Noun

upcast (plural upcasts)

1. A cast; a throw.
   • When I kissed the jack, upon an upcast to be hit away1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
2. The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
3. A current of air passed along such a shaft.
4. (Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
5. (Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.
   • for what with the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the wee bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already.1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co....
6. A cast from subtype to supertype.
7. A message transmitted via upcasting.

Verb

IPA/ʌpˈkæst/

upcast (third-person singular simple present upcasts, present participle upcasting, simple past and past participle upcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) upcasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
2. (Scotland, transitive) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
3. (transitive) To cast from subtype to supertype.

   Antonyms:

   downcast

4. To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft