case
IPA: kˈeɪs
noun
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- (now rare) A given condition or state.
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A suitcase.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
- (computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.
- (manufacturing) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
- (grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
- A surname.
- A place name:
- A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
verb
- (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
adjective
- (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
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Examples of "case" in Sentences
- The line of cases are folio type cases.
- This is the case for example in the mating of yeast.
- The reverse is true in the case of p type semiconductors.
- An example of disequilibrium is the case of the minimum wage.
- Eleven of the cases were the deadly inhalation type of anthrax.
- The other was terminated prematurely by the filing of this case.
- In the case of the shuttle type, the bobbin case is the shuttle.
- In the case of the type of batter, the answer is definitely yes.
- In the article of morganatic marriage, there are examples of cases.
- The FBI reports statistics on the absolute rarity of this type of case.
- +_Remember_+ that a noun or pronoun used as an _explanatory modifier_ is in the same case as the word which it explains, and that a noun or pronoun used _independently_ is in the _nominative case_.
- But here are a few specimens far, very far, worse: The special difficulty in Professor Minocelsis case [our old friend case again] arose in connexion with the view he holds relative to the historical value of the opening pages of Genesis.
- It says In the case of John Jenkins deceased, the coffin when it means John Jenkinss coffin: and its yea is not yea, neither is its nay nay: but its answer is in the affirmative or in the negative, as the foolish and superfluous case may be.
- If it be case (I choose it as Jargons dearest childin Heaven yclept Metonomy) turn to the dictionary, if you will, and seek out what meaning can be derived from casus, its Latin ancestor: then try how, with a little trouble, you can extricate yourself from that case.
- So, when we place a noun before a verb as actor or subject, we say it is in the _nominative case_; but when it follows a transitive verb or preposition, we say it has another _case_; that is, it assumes a new _position_ or _situation_ in the sentence: and this we call the _objective_ case.
- In either case, the blood will reflow upon the heart, and dilate the left ventricle, as in _case the first_, and others; and, if the mitral valves be thickened and rigid, the left auricle will be more dilated than in a case of simple aneurism of the left ventricle, as appeared also in the _first case_.
- Evidence and economic theory suggests that control of the Internet by the phone and cable companies would lead to blocking of competing technologies (as in theMadison River case), blocking of innovative technologiesthat may not even compete with the phone/cablecartel (according to Comcast itself, theComcast/BitTorrent case would be an example), andincreased spying on Internet users.
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