CASTINGS

"CASTINGS" is a plural of: casting.

Date "CASTINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: CASTINGS

CP Castings (1989)

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References

• Bolan Castings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Castings P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Rough Castings of Iron and Steel in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Rough Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings and Stampings Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Rough Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings and Stampings Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• UK Non-Ferrous Castings Market Development [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Iron Castings Handbook. Ed by Charles F. Walton. 3rd Ed. 1971 Ed Pub Under Title: Gray & Ductile Iron Castings Handbook, Entered Under Ed (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Pouring castings. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Castings going to the first machinery operations. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipme. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A machine tool assembly line where fixed bed milling machines are put together, thoroughly checked and run-off. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shenandoah Valley. Worker in the Bradley Foundry in Harrisonburg. This is where Paul Fletcher obtains his castings. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Kenya

Opportunities exist in the development of a nucleus foundry making precision castings. (references)

Trade

Poland

They include a wide range of diverse products, including wire rods, steel pipes and castings, motor vehicle components, bicycles, personal computers, fertilizers, and shampoo. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "CASTINGS": Malleable iron castings ♦ trail of castings. Additional references.

Beginning with "CASTINGS": castings-on.

Ending with "CASTINGS": steel-castings.

Danish

disse fremmedkim kan vaere af betydelig vigtighed i visse typer af specialstaal,der har tilboejelighed til at give en kraftig soejlekrystallisationszone,og som derfor er varmsproede ved blokvalsning eller som stoebegods (and which are consequently susceptible to hot short during rolling when in the form of ingots, or to cold brittleness when in the form of castings, these foreign nuclei can be of considerable importance in the case of certain grades of special steels which are inclined to give a large columnar zone), denne bundfaeldning af krystaller er blevet demonstreret ved forsoeg med udstoebninger,der er blevet vendt paa hovedet,foer den fuldstaendige stoerkning (this precipitation of crystals has been clearly demonstrated by tests in which castings are turned upside down before solidification is complete), anisotopien er i sunde stoebninger saavel som i blokke praktisk taget lig nul;den stiger med deformationsgraden (and increases with the degree of working, this mechanical anisotropy is practically nil in sound castings and in ingots). (various references)

Dutch

regenwormexcrement. (various references)

French

turrucules. (various references)

German

Güsse (foundings), Abgüsse. (various references)

Greek 

περιττώματα γεωσκωλήκων. (various references)

Hungarian

présöntvény (die castings), magos öntvények (hollow castings), finom öntvények (fine castings), üres öntvények (hollow castings). (various references)

Italian

escrementi (excrement, faeces, feces), deiezioni (dejecta, excrements, excreta, feces). (various references)

Pig Latin

astingscay

Portuguese

dejectos de minhoca. (various references)

Spanish

deyecciones de lombrices. (various references)

Swedish

gjutgods (foundry). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "CASTINGS": linecastings, narrowcastings, overcastings, sportscastings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CASTINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caatinga, caatingas, cartings, Castagna, Castaing, castaings, castang, Castens, eastings, fastings, haestingas, Kasting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: actings, casings, casting.

-2 letters: acting, actins, agists, angsts, antics, assign, casing, gainst, giants, nastic, saints, sating, satins, scants, staigs, stains, stangs, stings.

-3 letters: acing, actin, agist, angst, antic, antis, cains, canst, cants, casts, cists, gains, gaits, gasts, giant, gists, gnats, sains, saint, sasin, satin, satis, scags, scans, scant, scats, signs, sings, snags, snits.

+1 letter: agnostics, coastings.

+2 letters: chastising, gymnastics, miscasting, nostalgics, scantlings.

+3 letters: agnosticism, associating, coassisting, decussating, diagnostics, nasogastric, organicists, ostracising, outclassing, scatterings, stagnancies.

+4 letters: agnosticisms, castigations, dissociating, exactingness, latchstrings, linecastings, logisticians, overcastings, simulcasting, stocktakings, wainscotings.

+5 letters: acceptingness, astringencies, backstabbings, consignations, cosignatories, crosshatching, crystallising, gasifications, gastrocnemius, gemeinschafts, gynecomastias, necessitating, oceanologists, resuscitating, scapegoatings, schismatizing, sportscasting, wainscottings, walkingsticks.