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Upcast

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Noun

1. upcast

air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Upcast

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noun
1. 
material cast or thrown up
2. 
a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine
Compare downcast (sense 3)
3. geology
(in a fault) the section of strata that has been displaced upwards
adjective
4. 
directed or thrown upwards
verb -casts, -casting or -cast
5. (transitive)
to throw or cast up

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Upcast

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noun
1. 
something cast or thrown up
2.  Geology
upthrow (sense 2)
3.  Mining
a ventilating shaft for returning air to the surface
adjective
4. 
thrown upward
5. 
directed upward

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Upcast

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adj.
Directed or thrown upward: upcast volcanic ash.
n.
1. Something cast upward.
2. A ventilating shaft, as in a mine.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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