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/ˈtīpˌkast/,
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typecasts, 3rd person singular present; typecasting, present participle; typecast, past tense; typecast, past participle;
  1. Assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in such roles
    • - he tends to be typecast as the caring, intelligent male
  2. Represent or regard (a person or their role) as a stereotype
    • - people are not as likely to be typecast by their accents as they once were
  1. cast repeatedly in the same kind of role
  2. type: identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed"
  3. Typecasting is the process by which a film, TV, or stage actor is strongly identified with a specific character, one or more particular roles, or characters with the same traits or social or ethnic grouping. ...
  4. Typecast is a Grindcore/Ballad 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.
  5. Typecast (foaled 1966) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse noted for her ability to win races at both short and very long distances. Bred by Nuckols Bros. ...
  6. In computer science, type conversion or typecasting refers to changing an entity of one data type into another. This is done to take advantage of certain features of type hierarchies. ...
  7. (Typecasting (blogging)) A typecast (blogging) (a.k.a. typecasting or typecasting blog) is a form of blogging by media type and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on text created with a typewriter and then scanned rather than text entered ...
  8. (Type-Casting) An instruction that informs the Java Virtual Machine how to treat a specific reference or variable
  9. (Typecasting) This is when you get a part in a film or video because of the way you look.
  10. (Typecasting) When an actor or actress is commonly (but unfairly) identified, associated with, or 'stereotyped' by a particular character role; casting against type is the reverse of typecasting; typage refers to director Eisenstein's theory of casting that shunned professional actors in favor ...
  11. (Typecasting) is modifying (mapping) of types of the values of an Operand or an Expression. Before execution of Operations (all but assignment operations), they are modified to a type of the highest priority, whereas before execution of assignment operations they are modified to the target type.
  12. (typecasting) Explicitly converting a variable or expression from one data type to another.
  13. (typecasting) The tendency of major studios and some directors to lock certain actors into a narrow range of almost identical roles.
  14. (typecasting) To change the entity of one data type into another in programming. Outside of IT, to cast an actor in the same kind of part in a movie or theatrical production again and again.
  15. when an actor becomes associated with only one type of role or character, often based on physical appearance