Anagram Solver

Definitions for Caster

[1] a person or thing that casts.
[2] a small wheel on a swivel, set under a piece of furniture, a machine, etc., to facilitate moving it.
[3] a bottle or cruet for holding a condiment.
[4] a stand containing a set of such bottles.
[5] a metal container for sugar, pepper, etc., having a perforated top to permit sprinkling; dredger; muffineer.
[6] Automotive . the angle that the kingpin makes with the vertical. Automobiles are usually designed with the upper end of the kingpin inclined rearward (positive caster) for improved directional stability.
[7] (of a wheel) to swivel freely in a horizontal plane.
[8] Sociology . an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
[9] Hinduism . any of the social divisions into which Hindu society is traditionally divided, each caste having its own privileges and limitations, transferred by inheritance from one generation to the next; jati. Compare class(def 13) .
[10] any class or group of society sharing common cultural features: low caste; high caste.
[11] social position conferred upon one by a caste system: to lose caste.
[12] Entomology . one of the distinct forms among polymorphous social insects, performing a specialized function in the colony, as a queen, worker or soldier.
[13] of, relating to, or characterized by caste: a caste society; a caste system; a caste structure.
[14] a person or thing that casts
[15] Also: castor a bottle with a perforated top for sprinkling sugar, etc, or a stand containing such bottles
[16] Also: castor a small wheel mounted on a swivel so that the wheel tends to turn into its plane of rotation
[17] any of the four major hereditary classes, namely the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Sudra into which Hindu society is divided See also Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra Also called: caste system the system or basis of such classes the social position or rank conferred by this system
[18] any social class or system based on such distinctions as heredity, rank, wealth, profession, etc
[19] the position conferred by such a system
[20] entomol any of various types of specialized individual, such as the worker, in social insects (hive bees, ants, etc)

Words related to Caster

disk, drum, roller, beaker, jug, vial, urn, chalice, decanter, canteen, carafe, whirl, gyre, rotation, circulation, pulley, hoop, circumvolution, round, turn

Words nearby Caster

castellum, castellón de la plana, castelnuovo-tedesco, castelo branco, castelvetro, caster, caster action, caster sugar, castigate, castiglione, castile

Origin of Caster

1545–55; < Portuguese casta race, breed, noun use of casta, feminine of casto < Latin castus pure, chaste

Words that may be confused with Caster

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, castecast, caste, class

Other words from Caster

cast·er·less , adjective
caste·ism , noun
caste·less , adjective
an·ti·caste , adjective
in·ter·caste , adjective
sub·caste , noun

Word origin for Caster

C16: from Portuguese casta race, breed, ancestry, from casto pure, chaste, from Latin castus

Synonyms for Caster

disk, drum, roller, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, cycle, gyration, gyre, hoop, pivot, pulley, ratchet, ring, roll, rotation, round, spin, trolley, turn, twirl, whirl