Definition of case Case
/kejˈs/ - [keys] - case
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WordNet
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| case - a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" | ||
| container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | ||
| luggage, baggage cases used to carry belongings when traveling | ||
| briefcase a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | ||
| cardcase a small case for carrying business cards | ||
| cigarette case a small flat case for holding cigarettes; can be carried in a purse or a pocket | ||
| powder compact, compact a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | ||
| dispatch box, dispatch case case consisting of an oblong container (usually having a lock) for carrying dispatches or other valuables | ||
| glasses case a case for carrying spectacles | ||
| gun case a case for storing a gun | ||
| kit young of any of various fur-bearing animals; "a fox kit" | ||
| letter case case for carrying letters | ||
| locket a small ornamental case; usually contains a picture or a lock of hair and is worn on a necklace | ||
| pillbox a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete) | ||
| portfolio the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs" | ||
| quiver case for holding arrows | ||
| shoe footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | ||
| sleeve the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | ||
| billfold, notecase, wallet, pocketbook a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | ||
| watch case the metal case in which the works of a watch are housed | ||
| case - an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" | ||
| instance, example | ||
| happening, natural event, occurrent, occurrence an event that happens | ||
| humiliation, mortification depriving one of self-esteem | ||
| bit, piece the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press; "he looked around for the right size bit" | ||
| case - a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor" | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| client a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | ||
| patient a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" | ||
| referral the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency) | ||
| case - a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home | ||
| display case, showcase, vitrine | ||
| container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | ||
| case - nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence | ||
| grammatical case | ||
| grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | ||
| nominative, nominative case, subject case the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | ||
| case - (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters" | ||
| compositor's case, typesetter's case | ||
| receptacle a container that is used to put or keep things in | ||
| case - the quantity contained in a case | ||
| caseful | ||
| containerful the quantity that a container will hold | ||
| case - bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" | ||
| pillowcase, slip, pillow slip | ||
| case - the actual state of things; "that was not the case" | ||
| case - a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly" | ||
| case - a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir" | ||
| case - a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters" | ||
| case - a specific size and style of type within a type family | ||
| font, fount, typeface, face | ||
| type a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper; "he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up" | ||
| type family a complete set of type suitable for printing text | ||
| unicameral script a script with a single case | ||
| bicameral script a script having two distinct cases | ||
| constant-width font, fixed-width font, monospaced font, typewriter font a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) | ||
| proportional font any font whose different characters have different widths | ||
| cartridge font, font cartridge any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer | ||
| black letter, gothic a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches | ||
| bold, bold face, boldface a typeface with thick heavy lines | ||
| italic a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right | ||
| raster font, screen font the font that is displayed on a computer screen; "when the screen font resembles a printed font a document may look approximately the same on the screen as it will when printed" | ||
| case - a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" | ||
| lawsuit, suit, cause, causa | ||
| legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | ||
| jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
| civil suit a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant | ||
| class-action suit, class action a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group | ||
| countersuit a suit brought against someone who has sued you | ||
| criminal suit a lawsuit alleging violations of criminal law by the defendant | ||
| moot a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" | ||
| case - an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | ||
| sheath | ||
| natural covering, covering, cover the act of protecting something by covering it | ||
| theca outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects | ||
| lorica a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | ||
| medullary sheath, myelin sheath a layer of myelin encasing (and insulating) the axons of medullated nerve fibers | ||
| neurilemma, neurolemma thin membranous sheath around a nerve fiber | ||
| case - the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" | ||
| shell, casing | ||
| housing structures collectively in which people are housed | ||
| grandfather clock, longcase clock a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case | ||
| boot a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed | ||
| gear box, gear case, gearbox the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | ||
| case - a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" | ||
| character, eccentric, type | ||
| grownup, adult any mature animal | ||
| case - the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" | ||
| casing | ||
| framework a structure supporting or containing something | ||
| doorway, room access, door, threshold the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" | ||
| case - a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" | ||
| subject, guinea pig | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| case - a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled" | ||
| event | ||
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| case - look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed" | ||
| inspect look over carefully; "Please inspect your father's will carefully" | ||
| case - enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" | ||
| encase, incase | ||
| shut in, close in, inclose, enclose advance or converge on; "The police were closing in on him" | ||
| pack treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice" | ||
| package, box engage in a boxing match | ||
| sack put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions" | ||
| crate put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- case (Noun)
An actual event, situation, or fact. - case (Noun)
A given condition or state. - case (Noun)
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. - case (Noun)
An instance or event as a topic of study. - case (Noun)
A legal proceeding, lawsuit. - case (Noun)
A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence. - case (Noun)
grammatical Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. - case (Noun)
An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms. - case (Noun)
A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch. - case (Noun)
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. - case (Noun)
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine . - case (Noun)
A suitcase. - case (Noun)
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed. - case (Noun)
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer. - case (Noun)
The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” upper case or “small” lower case letter. - case (Noun)
four of a Four of a kind . - case (Noun)
A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounce s. - case (Verb)
To propose hypothetical cases. - case (Verb)
To place an item or items of manufacture into a box, as in preparation for shipment. - case (Verb)
To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. - case (Verb)
To survey a building or other location surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery. - case (Adjective)
The last remaining card of a particular rank.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- case (n.)
A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book. - case (n.)
A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments. - case (n.)
A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type. - case (n.)
An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case. - case (n.)
A small fissure which admits water to the workings. - case (v. t.)
To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. - case (v. t.)
To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. - case (n.)
Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. - case (n.)
That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. - case (n.)
A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. - case (n.)
The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause. - case (n.)
One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word. - case (v. i.)
To propose hypothetical cases.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A judicial examination and determination of issues between parties to action; whether they need issues of law or of fact. A judicial examination, in accordance with law of the land, of a cause, either civil or criminal, of the issues between the parties, whether of law or fact, before a court that has proper jurisdiction. -
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Something that is representative of all such things in a group; an occurrence of something. -
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One of several similar instances or events which are being studied and compared. -
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(Grammar) An instance of grammatical case; a category of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, specialized (usually by inflection) to indicate a particular syntactic relation to other words in a sentence. -
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(Grammar) (uncountable) A set of grammatical cases or their meanings in a particular language collectively. -
case
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. -
case
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine. -
case
Large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling. -
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A piece of furniture, Constructios partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed. -
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The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer. -
case
In typography, the nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter. -
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To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. -
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To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery. -
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The grammaticalic case in which a noun is used. -
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A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. -
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The scientific application of a set of tools and methods to a software which is meant to result in high-quality, defect-free, and maintainable software products.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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kās, n. a covering, box, or sheath: a set: an outer coating for walls: in bookbinding, the boards and back, separate from the book: the frame in which a compositor has his types before him while at work.—v.t. to supply with a case.—n. Case′-bott′le, a bottle made to fit into a case with others.—v.t. Case′-hard′en, to convert the surface of certain kinds of malleable iron goods into steel, thereby making them harder, less liable to rust, and capable of taking on a better polish.—ns. Case′-hard′ening; Case′-knife, a large knife kept in a case; Case′maker, one who makes cases or covers for books; Case′ment, the case or frame of a window: a window that opens on hinges: a hollow moulding.—adj. Case′mented, having casements.—ns. Case′-shot, canister-shot, an artillery projectile for use at close quarters; Case′-worm, the caddice; Cas′ing, the act of the verb Case: an outside covering of any kind, as of boards, plaster, &c. [O. Fr. casse—L. capsa—capĕre, to take.] -
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kās, n. that which falls or happens, event: particular state or condition—'in good case' = well off: subject of question or inquiry: an instance of disease: a person under medical treatment: a legal statement of facts: (gram.) the inflection of nouns, &c.—Case of conscience (see Conscience).—In any case, at all events: at any rate; In case, in the event that; In case to, in fit condition for; Make out one's case, to give good reasons for one's statements or position; Put the case, to suppose an instance: to take for example; The case, the fact, the reality. [O. Fr. cas—L. casus, from cadĕre, to fall.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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The outside planking of the ship.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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A house; perhaps from the Italian CASA. In the canting lingo it meant store or ware house, as well as a dwelling house. Tout that case; mark or observe that house. It is all bob, now let's dub the gig of the case; now the coast is clear, let us break open the door of the house.
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