cast off
Verb
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Verb
cast off (simple past and past participle more properly cast off)
- (transitive) To discard or reject something.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf etc) so that the vessel may make way.
- (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
- (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
- 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing (page 102)
- To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.
- 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing (page 102)
- German: Leinen los
- Spanish: desamarrar, levantar amarras, soltar las amarras
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