typecast
verbEtymology From type + cast.
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Acting, Broadcasting, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
2
To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
- The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World:
3
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
- Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
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Media, Printing, Publishing Historical To found type in a mold.
- Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116: