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Case   /keɪs/   Listen
Case

noun
1.
An occurrence of something.  Synonyms: example, instance.  "Another instance occurred yesterday" , "But there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
2.
A special set of circumstances.  Synonym: event.  "It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
3.
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.  Synonyms: causa, cause, lawsuit, suit.
4.
The actual state of things.
5.
A portable container for carrying several objects.
6.
A person requiring professional services.
7.
A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation.  Synonyms: guinea pig, subject.  "The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
8.
A problem requiring investigation.
9.
A statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument.
10.
The quantity contained in a case.  Synonym: caseful.
11.
Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence.  Synonym: grammatical case.
12.
A specific state of mind that is temporary.
13.
A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).  Synonyms: character, eccentric, type.  "A strange character" , "A friendly eccentric" , "The capable type" , "A mental case"
14.
A specific size and style of type within a type family.  Synonyms: face, font, fount, typeface.
15.
An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part.  Synonym: sheath.
16.
The housing or outer covering of something.  Synonyms: casing, shell.
17.
The enclosing frame around a door or window opening.  Synonym: casing.
18.
(printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers.  Synonyms: compositor's case, typesetter's case.
19.
Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow.  Synonyms: pillow slip, pillowcase, slip.
20.
A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home.  Synonyms: display case, showcase, vitrine.
verb
(past & past part. cased; pres. part. casing)
1.
Look over, usually with the intention to rob.
2.
Enclose in, or as if in, a case.  Synonyms: encase, incase.



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"Case" Quotes from Famous Books



... his fingers so as to touch the young clergyman's hand. "Pray take a seat." And Arthur seated himself—as, indeed, he had no alternative—on a straight-backed old horsehair-bottomed chair which stood immediately under a tall black book-case. He was miles asunder from the fire; and had he been nearer to it, it would have availed him but little; for the grate was one of those which our grandfathers cleverly invented for transmitting all the heat up ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... have a right to place garrisons in the citadels of Mirandola and Reggio, as well as in the castle of Massa-Carrara: that the archduke Peter Leopold, third son of their imperial majesties, should espouse the daughter of the hereditary prince of Modena, by the heiress of Massa-Carrara; and in case of her dying without heirs male, the estates of that house and the duchy of Mirandola should devolve to the archduke; but in case of her having male issue, that she should enjoy the principality of Fermia, and other possessions in Hungary, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... I stood to him somewhat in the relation of a guardian. You have probably seen enough of affairs to recognise that occasionally a certain friction—. But even if that was the case, there is a doubt whether he will ever wake. This sleep exhausts slowly, but it exhausts. Apparently he is sliding slowly, very slowly and tediously, down a long slope, if you ...
— When the Sleeper Wakes • Herbert George Wells

... theory is correct that girl ought to be snatched away before the mob of occultists, freaks, and flatterers of this city utterly spoil her. Anyhow, I'm going to look into her case on my own account." And in this determination she snuggled into the corner of ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... among tempers so divergent. Every phase of the situation was successively eviscerated: the prenatal repugnance of uterine brothers, the Caesarean section, posthumity with respect to the father and, that rarer form, with respect to the mother, the fratricidal case known as the Childs Murder and rendered memorable by the impassioned plea of Mr Advocate Bushe which secured the acquittal of the wrongfully accused, the rights of primogeniture and king's bounty touching twins and triplets, miscarriages and infanticides, simulated or dissimulated, the ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


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