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typecast in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. identify as belonging to a certain type
    "Such people can practically be typed"
    type  typecast 
  2. cast repeatedly in the same kind of role
    typecast 
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typecast in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
  2. (verb) To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc.
  3. (verb) (computing, programming languages) Changing an entity (a variable or an object) of one datatype into another. In other words, typecasting allows you to take a value that belongs to one type and "cast" it into another type. See also: type conversion.
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