Crossword clues for typecast
typecast
- Roled up in one?
- Always playing the same role
- Use often in similar roles
- Unable to show versatility
- Unable to broaden one's roles
- Restrict to role
- Pigeonholed, in filmdom
- Locked in a role
- Given the same sort of parts
- Given similar roles repeatedly
- Give a fitting part
- Constantly given similar roles
- Assigned the same kind of role repeatedly
- Always landing similar roles
- Given similar parts
- Pigeonholed, in moviedom
- Not having many different parts?
- Constantly given the same kind of role
- In the same familiar role
- Kind actors playing similar roles continually?
- Like some players, strain on pitch
- Acts badly after work at keyboard getting the same parts?
- Pigeonholed as an actor
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Petty cash running short unfortunately? Always in the same position
- In extremes of torment, Spacey furious, given predictable roles
- Always getting the same part of cooked pasty etc
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. 2 To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc. 3 (context computing programming English) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
WordNet
v. cast repeatedly in the same kind of role
identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed" [syn: type]
Wikipedia
Typecast is an alternative rock band from the Philippines. Originally an underground act, they have surfaced on the mainstream Philippine music scene, while managing to hold on to their underground roots.
Typecast (foaled April 10, 1966) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse noted for her ability to win races at both short and very long distances.
Usage examples of "typecast".
Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.
If central casting had sent him to an HD producer for the role of an over-bred, cretinous aristocrat, the producer would have sent him back with a blistering memo about stereotypes and typecasting.