(grammar) A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the instrumental case include Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Georgian, Latvian, Slovene, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Assamese, Turkish and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.

(grammar) noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.

Alternative spelling of lowercase

Happening by chance. / Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental. / Employed irregularly. / Careless. / Happening or coming to pass without design. / Informal, relaxed.

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.

(chiefly uncountable) Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat. / (chiefly uncountable) A soft fabric made of this wool. / (countable) A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.

(transitive) To abandon a ship at sea / (transitive) To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them

Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. / Shipwrecked. / Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.

(nautical) A shipwrecked sailor. / A discarded person or thing. / An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

Someone or something that casts