type-cast

American  

[tahyp-kast, -kahst] / ˈtaɪpˌkæst, -ˌkɑst /

verb (used with or without object)

type-cast, type-casting

1. to cast (type).

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adjective

1. (of text to be printed) having the type already cast.

Other Word Forms

• type-caster
  noun

Etymology

Origin of type-cast

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Are you afraid of being type cast as the romantic hero?

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2012

Because of excessive ornamentation in his earlier work, Yamasaki's critics have tended to type cast him as an "exterior decorator," or cosmetician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just once Winston caught a phrase— “complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism”—jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid.

From "1984" by George Orwell

This means a system of printing from type cast in words instead of single letters, which it was thought would save time and corrections when applied to newspapers, but it was not found to answer.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Accordingly he had a more minute fount of type cast, and in April, 1501, published his famous Virgil, a small book of 228 unpaged leaves, measuring not quite 8 inches by 4.

From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)