upcast

IPA: ˈʌpkæst

(bowling) A cast; a throw.
(mining) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
(mining) A current of air passed along such a shaft.
(Scotland) An upset, as from a carriage.
(Scotland) A taunt; a reproach.
(computing) A cast from subtype to supertype.
A message transmitted via upcasting.

(transitive, obsolete) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
(transitive, Scotland) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
(transitive, computing) To cast from subtype to supertype.
To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft

Examples of "upcast" in Sentences

Her eyes, velvet-black in the shadow upcast by the lamp, opened slowly.
Objects accepted are predefined and you don't need to upcast and downcast.
In the faint upcast light of the courtyard lamps, he saw her in parts - a cheek's curve, her lips sharp as a carving.
The upcast reflection of a lamp and shade, an inconstant series of concentric circles of varying gradations of light and shadow.
In various enchanted attitudes like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast.
Poirot walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Belgium's hearts and hands.
Working from the text and his imagination, the self-taught and self-destructive Williams contributed 159 drawings, from cartoonish thumbnails to the introductory full-page rendering of Tom that presented him in an almost pre-Raphaelite aura: wreathed in curls, with full lips and unfocused upcast eyes.
Nowhere have these drains been carried through the houses, but they are taken directly into drains at the back, having specially ventilated manholes and being brought through at the ends of terraces into the road sewers; the ventilating openings in the roads have been converted into inlet ventilators by placing upcast shafts at short intervals, discharging above the houses.