Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of producing casts in metal by pouring it when in a state of fusion into a mold.
- noun A piece of cast metal having a form that adapts it for use in machinery, manufactures, etc.
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Examples
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Demand has picked up for the company, which makes tooling machines used by the automotive metal-casting industry.
Tool Firms Seek U.S. Aid Kris Maher 2010
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Demand has picked up for the company, which makes tooling machines used by the automotive metal-casting industry.
Tool Firms Seek U.S. Aid Kris Maher 2010
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Demand has picked up for the company, which makes tooling machines used by the automotive metal-casting industry.
Tool Firms Seek U.S. Aid Kris Maher 2010
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Yes, no doubt this advertised a metal-casting business, but it was hard not to feel chastened.
I'd prefer to sleep furiously. Angry Professor 2009
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Last month, a pump manufacturer, which had moved more than $1 million worth of metal-casting work from B.emen to China two years ago, called "to reactivate everything," says J.B. B.own, the foundry's president.
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The excellence of the metal-casting and the high degree of skill shown in casting implements and weapons during the
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886
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Phoenician æsthetic art embraced sculpture, metal-casting, intaglio, and painting to a small extent.
History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857
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GO-Tech meeting, including Rick Chownyck (at right) who did a metal-casting demo that I blogged.
MAKE Magazine 2010
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` ` Extant, life size pensive images in gilt-bronze were made only in Korea, while the difficulty of sculpting such as complex posture presumes highly advanced metal-casting technology, '' Kang Woo-bang, the former director of the Gyeongju National Museum, said in his essay.
The Buddhist Channel 2009
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As I have recently discovered, however, lost-foam casting is a much more accessible metal-casting technique than traditional green-sand.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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