Definition of
Case
- (noun, act) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- (noun, artifact) a portable container for carrying several objects
- (noun, artifact) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
- (noun, artifact) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- (noun, artifact) (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- (noun, artifact) the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- (noun, artifact) the housing or outer covering of something
- (noun, body) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- (noun, cognition) the actual state of things
- (noun, communication) nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- (noun, communication) a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- (noun, communication) a problem requiring investigation
- (noun, communication) a specific size and style of type within a type family
- (noun, event) an occurrence of something
another instance occurred yesterday
but there is always the famous example of the Smiths - (noun, person) a person requiring professional services
- (noun, person) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
a strange character
a friendly eccentric
the capable type
a mental case - (noun, person) a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities - (noun, quantity) the quantity contained in a case
- (noun, state) a special set of circumstances
it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled - (noun, state) a specific state of mind that is temporary
- (verb, contact) enclose in, or as if in, a case
- (verb, perception) look over, usually with the intention to rob
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Synonyms of Case
caseful, casing, causa, cause, character, compositor's case, display case, eccentric, encase, event, example, face, font, fount, grammatical case, guinea pig, incase, instance, lawsuit, pillow slip, pillowcase, sheath, shell, showcase, slip, subject, suit, type, typeface, typesetter's case, vitrine
Alternate forms of Case
Hyponyms: baggage, bastardy proceeding, bicameral script, billfold, bit, black letter, bold, bold face, boldface, boot, box, briefcase, cardcase, cartridge font, charity case, cigarette case, civil suit, class action, class-action suit, client, clip, compact, constant-width font, countersuit, crate, criminal suit, dispatch box, dispatch case, fixed-width font, font cartridge, gear box, gear case, gearbox, glasses case, gothic, gun case, helvetica, humiliation, husk, italic, jacket, kit, letter case, locket, lorica, luggage, medullary sheath, monospaced font, moot, mortification, myelin sheath, neurilemma, neurolemma, nominative, nominative case, notecase, oblique, oblique case, pack, package, paternity suit, patient, piece, pillbox, pocketbook, portfolio, powder compact, proportional font, quiver, raster font, referral, sack, sans serif, screen font, shoe, sleeve, subject case, theca, time, trophy case, typewriter font, unicameral script, wallet, watch case, welfare case, writing desk
Hypernyms: adult, argument, bed linen, circumstance, close in, container, containerful, cover, covering, enclose, fact, frame of mind, framework, grammatical category, grownup, happening, housing, inclose, individual, inspect, legal proceeding, mortal, natural covering, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, person, problem, proceeding, proceedings, receptacle, shut in, somebody, someone, soul, state of mind, statement, syntactic category, type
Origin of the word Case
- "state of affairs," early 13c., from O.Fr. cas "an event," from L. casus "a chance," lit. "a falling," from cas-, pp. stem of cadere "to fall, sink, settle down, decline, perish" (used widely: of the setting of heavenly bodies, the fall of Troy, suicides), from PIE base *kad- "to lay out, fall or make fall, yield, break up" (cf. Skt. sad-more
- "receptacle," c.1300, from O.N.Fr. casse, O.Fr. chasse, from L. capsa "box," from capere "to take, hold" (see capable). The verb meaning "examine, inspect" (usually prior to robbing) is Amer.Eng. slang first recorded 1915. Artillery sense is from 1660s, from case-shot "small projectiles put in cases" (1620s). Reference in the printing trade (f… more
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Words that sound like Case
c, c.e., c2h6, ca, ca-ca, cacajao, cacao, cache, cachexia, cachexy, cachi, cachou, cacicus, cacique, cage, cagey, cagy, cake, caseous, cash, cash cow, cashew, cask, casque, cassia, cassie, cassius, cassock, caucasia, caucasic, caucasus, caucus, causa, cause, causeway
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