lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa
(noun) 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”
case
(noun) a portable container for carrying several objects; “the musicians left their instrument cases backstage”
case, display case, showcase, vitrine
(noun) a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
case, pillowcase, slip, pillow slip
(noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; “the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase”
case, compositor's case, typesetter's case
(noun) (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”
casing, case
(noun) the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; “the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced”
shell, case, casing
(noun) the housing or outer covering of something; “the clock has a walnut case”
sheath, case
(noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
case
(noun) the actual state of things; “that was not the case”
case, grammatical case
(noun) nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
case
(noun) a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; “he stated his case clearly”
case
(noun) a problem requiring investigation; “Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir”
font, fount, typeface, face, case
(noun) a specific size and style of type within a type family
case, instance, example
(noun) 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”
case
(noun) a person requiring professional services; “a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor”
character, eccentric, type, case
(noun) 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”
subject, case, guinea pig
(noun) 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”
case, caseful
(noun) the quantity contained in a case
event, case
(noun) a special set of circumstances; “in that event, the first possibility is excluded”; “it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled”
case
(noun) a specific state of mind that is temporary; “a case of the jitters”
encase, incase, case
(verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case; “my feet were encased in mud”
case
(verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob; “They men cased the housed”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
CASE
(computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.
(manufacturing) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc
Case
(grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
Case
A surname.
• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc
case (plural cases)
An actual event, situation, or fact.
(now, rare) A given condition or state.
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
(grammar) A specific inflection of a word 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.
• befall
• grammatical case
• court case
• See also grammatical case
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
case (plural cases)
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.
Synonym: carton
(Terms derived from case (noun, etymology 2)):
• attachĂ© case
• briefcase
• camel case
• casing
• case harden
• letter case
• lower case
• packing case
• sentence case
• staircase
• suitcase
• title case
• upper case
case (not comparable)
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
(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.
• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc
Source: Wiktionary
Case, n. Etym: [OF. casse, F. caisse (cf. It. cassa), fr. L. capsa chest, box, case, fr. caper to take, hold See Capacious, and cf. 4th Chase, Cash, Enchase, 3d Sash.]
1. 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.
2. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
3. (Print.)
Definition: A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Note: Cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two, called respectively the upper and the lower case. The upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented; the lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
4. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
5. (Mining)
Definition: A small fissure which admits water to the workings. Knight.
Case, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cased; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.]
1. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle. Prescott.
2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]
Case, n. Etym: [F. cas, fr. L. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to happen. Cf. Chance.]
1. Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.] By aventure, or sort, or cas. Chaucer.
2. That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstamces; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes. In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. Deut. xxiv. 13. If the case of the man be so with his wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know all other things give place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.
3. (Med. & Surg.)
Definition: A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases. Arbuthnot.
4. (Law)
Definition: 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. Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason. Sir John Powell. Not one case in the reports of our courts. Steele.
5. (Gram.)
Definition: 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 is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative. J. W. Gibbs.
Note: Cases other than the nominative are oblique cases. Case endings are terminations by which certain cases are distinguished. In old English, as in Latin, nouns had several cases distinguished by case endings, but in modern English only that of the possessive case is retained. Action on the case (Law), according to the old classification (now obsolete), was an action for redress of wrongs or injuries to person or property not specially provided against by law, in which the whole cause of complaint was set out in the writ; -- called also trespass on the case, or simply case.
– All a case, a matter of indifference. [Obs.] "It is all a case to me." L'Estrange.
– Case at bar. See under Bar, n.
– Case divinity, casuistry.
– Case lawyer, one versed in the reports of cases rather than in the science of the law.
– Case stated or agreed on (Law), a statement in writing of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a decision of the legal points arising on them.
– A hard case, an abandoned or incorrigible person. [Colloq.] -- In any case, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.
– In case, or In case that, if; supposing that; in the event or contingency; if it should happen that. "In case we are surprised, keep by me." W. Irving.
– In good case, in good condition, health, or state of body.
– To put a case, to suppose a hypothetical or illustrative case.
Syn.
– Situation, condition, state; circumstances; plight; predicament; occurrence; contingency; accident; event; conjuncture; cause; action; suit.
Case, v. i.
Definition: To propose hypothetical cases. [Obs.] "Casing upon the matter." L'Estrange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 April 2024
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
