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Dictionary Results for casting vote: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
casting vote
n 1: the deciding vote cast by the presiding officer to resolve
a tie
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Vote \Vote\, n. [L. votum a vow, wish, will, fr. vovere, votum,
to vow: cf. F. vote. See Vow.]
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1. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. [Obs.]
--Massinger.
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2. A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of
persons, expressed in some received and authorized way;
the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or
choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the
person voting has an interest in common with others,
either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws,
rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
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3. That by means of which will or preference is expressed in
elections, or in deciding propositions; voice; a ballot; a
ticket; as, a written vote.
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The freeman casting with unpurchased hand
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
--Holmes.
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4. Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal
decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as,
the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence.
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5. Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote.
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Casting vote, Cumulative vote, etc. See under Casting,
Cumulative, etc.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Casting \Cast"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.
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2. The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of
shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process
of pouring molten metal into a mold.
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3. That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so
cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
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4. The warping of a board. --Brande & C.
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5. The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as
skin, feathers, excrement, etc.
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Casting of draperies, the proper distribution of the folds
of garments, in painting and sculpture.
Casting line (Fishing), the leader; also, sometimes applied
to the long reel line.
Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction
from a net that is set and left.
Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a
presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house
are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the
governor had the casting voice." --B. Trumbull.
Casting weight, a weight that turns a balance when exactly
poised.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
CASTING VOTE, legislation. The vote given by the president or speaker of a
deliberate assembly; when the votes of the other members are equal on both
sides, the casting vote then decides the question. Dane's Ab. h.t.
CASTRATION, crim. law. The act of gelding. When this act is maliciously
performed upon a man, it is a mayhem, and punishable as such, although the
sufferer consented to it.
2. By the ancient law of England this crime was punished by
retaliation, membrum pro membro. 3 Inst. 118. It is punished in the United
States generally by fine and imprisonment. The civil law punished it with
death. Dig. 48, 8, 4, 2. For the French law, vide Code Penal, art. 316. 3.
The consequences of castration, when complete, are impotence and sterility. 1
Beck's Med. Jur. 72.
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