Upcast

Definition: Upcast

Upcast

Noun

1. Air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "upcast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Mining

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

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Crosswords: Upcast

Expressions using "upcast": upcast pit ♦ upcast shaft. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏موجه لأعلى, ‏المهوى الصاعد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вентилационна шахта (air shaft, airway, downcast), обратен разсед, изхвърляне нагоре (upthrow). (various references)

Chinese 

上抛. (various references)

Czech

zdvižený, vrhání, vrh (birth, cast, throw, toss). (various references)

Danish

opadgående ventilation (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), i forbindelse med ventilation taler man om skakter med faldende og stigende luftstroem (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Dutch

intrekkende en uittrekkende schacht, die hun naam ontlenen aan de wijze van ventilatie (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

French

au point de vue de l'aérage, on parle de puits d'entrée et de puits de retour d'air (we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts), aérage montant (up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), aérage ascendant (up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation). (various references)

German

je nach ihrer Funktion in der Wetterfuehrung spricht man von Einzieh- und Ausziehschacht (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts), Gegenstrombewetterung (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), Aufwärtsbewetterung (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), aufsteigende Wetterführung (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), aufsteigende Bewetterung (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation). (various references)

Greek 

από πλευράς αερισμού,ομιλούμεν περί φρεάτων προσαγωγής και φρεάτων απαγωγής του αέρος (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Hungarian

felfelé fordított (turned up, upturned). (various references)

Italian

dal punto di vista della ventilazione,si parla di pozzo di entrata d'aria e pozzo di riflusso (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Korean 

배기갱. (various references)

Pig Latin

astupcay

Portuguese

virado para cima, poço de ventilação, lançado para cima, deslocamento ascensional. (various references)

Russian 

восходящий (ascendant, ascensional, bottom-up, rising, uprise, upward), вентиляционный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podignut (elevated, risen), izlazni. (various references)

Spanish

ventilación ascendente (antitropal ventilation, ascensional ventilation, up hill ventilation, upcast ventilation), pozo de retorno del aire (in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts), pozo de entrada del aire (downcast shaft, in connection with ventilation, we speak of the downcast and upcast shafts). (various references)

Turkish

yukarıya dönük, yukarıya bakan, hava bacası (air shaft, airway, shaft, upcast shaft, uptake). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phóng lên, ngước lên, bị ném lên. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "upcast": upcasting, upcasts. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: catsup.

-1 letter: caput, pacts, scaup, scuta, sputa, stupa.

-2 letters: acts, caps, cast, cats, cups, cusp, cuts, pacs, pact, past, pats, puts, scat, scup, scut, spat, taps, taus, tups, upas, utas.

-3 letters: act, apt, asp, cap, cat, cup, cut, pac, pas, pat, pus, put, sac, sap, sat, sau, spa, sup, tap, tas, tau, tup, ups, uta.

+1 letter: catsups, cuspate, stackup, teacups, upcasts, upcoast.

+2 letters: autopsic, cajaputs, cajeputs, cajuputs, captious, captures, catchups, chutzpas, cuspated, matchups, outpaces, pushcart, pussycat, stackups.

+3 letters: aspectual, capturers, catapults, chutzpahs, copulates, cuspidate, deathcups, dumpcarts, eucalypts, hypocaust, occupants, outcapers, paucities, peculates, pushcarts, pussycats, spacesuit, speculate, upcasting.

+4 letters: cantaloups, capsulated, captiously, duplicates, eucalyptus, exculpates, hypocausts, inculpates, leucoplast, manuscript, metacarpus, parachutes, pasticheur, patchoulis, paunchiest, peculators, petulances, plutocrats, portulacas, postlaunch, postulancy, practicums, punctuates, recaptures, scriptural, sculptural, spacesuits, speculated, speculates, speculator, subchapter, subcompact, supplicant, supplicate, supraoptic, teacupfuls, teacupsful.

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