name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
castling
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈkɑːstlɪŋ/
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US: /ˈkæstlɪŋ/
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UK: /ˈkɑːsəlɪŋ/
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US: /ˈkæsəlɪŋ/
noun
Meaning 2
An abortion, or a premature birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1646: Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon the urine in a castling’s bladder — Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5
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noun
Meaning 3
The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
A miniature cast or mould.
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noun
Meaning 5
One that is cast.
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noun
Meaning 6
A move in which the king moves two squares towards a rook, and the rook moves to the other side of the king; the action of the verb to castle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
Meaning 7
The act of constructing a defense structure in Japanese chess in which the king (玉) is positioned in a certain way so that it is protected by pawns (歩) and silver general(s) (銀) and/or gold general(s) (金) often with an additional knight (桂) and lance (香車).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: board-games, games, shogi
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verb
Meaning 8
present participle and gerund of castle
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 9
interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: castle
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Broader terms: chess move
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English -ling English castling From cast + -ling.
From Middle English castellinge, equivalent to castle (verb) + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَبْيِيت (tabyīt) — move in chess
- Bulgarian: рокада (rokada) — move in chess
- Chinese Mandarin: 王車易位 /王车易位 (wáng-jū yìwèi) — move in chess
- Czech: rošáda — move in chess
- Danish: rokade — move in chess
- Dutch: rokade — move in chess
- Esperanto: aroko — move in chess
- Estonian: vangerdus — move in chess
- Finnish: linnoitus — move in chess
- Finnish: tornitus — move in chess
- French: roque — move in chess
- German: Rochade — move in chess
- Hebrew: הצרחה — move in chess
- Hungarian: sáncolás — move in chess
- Hungarian: rosálás — move in chess
- Icelandic: hrókering — move in chess
- Ido: roquo — move in chess
- Italian: arrocco — move in chess
- Japanese: キャスリング (kyasuringu) — move in chess
- Latin: adrochatio — move in chess
- Latvian: rokāde — move in chess
- Macedonian: рокада (rokada) — move in chess
- Persian: قلعه بستن (qal'e bastan) — move in chess
- Polish: roszada — move in chess
- Portuguese: roque — move in chess
- Romanian: rocadă — move in chess
- Russian: рокиро́вка (rokiróvka) — move in chess
- Serbo-Croatian: рокада — move in chess
- Serbo-Croatian: rokada — move in chess
- Slovene: rošada — move in chess
- Slovene: rokada — move in chess
- Spanish: enroque — move in chess
- Swedish: rockad — move in chess
- Turkish: rok — move in chess
- Urdu: قِلْعَہ جانا (qil'a jānā) — move in chess
- Vietnamese: nhập thành — move in chess