case

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Hyponyms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.3.1.3 References 1.3.2 Adjective 1.3.2.1 References 1.3.3 Verb 1.3.3.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Romanian 4.1 Noun 5 Spanish 5.1 Verb

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /keɪs/, SAMPA: /keIs/
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  Rhymes: -eɪs

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English cas < Old English cas(us) (noun case) < Old French cas (an event) < Latin casus (a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case), perfect passive participle of cadere (to fall, sink, drop) < Proto-Indo-European base *kad- (to fall).

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case (plural cases)

1. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
2. One of several similar instances or events which are being studied and compared.
3. (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.

   The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.

   Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

4. (grammar) (uncountable) A set of grammatical cases or their meanings in a particular language collectively.

   Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.

   Latin is a language that employs case.

5. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

   It was one of the detective's easiest cases.

   Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.

   The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.

6. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptons.

   There were another five cases reported overnight.

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• See also Wikisaurus:grammatical case

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English cas < Old North French casse, Old French chasse (box, chest, case) < Latin capsa (box, bookcase), from capere (to take, seize, hold).

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case (plural cases)

1. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
2. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
3. A suitcase.
4. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
5. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
6. In typography, the nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
7. (poker slang) four of a kind
8. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

[edit] Derived terms

• camel case
• casing (noun)
• case harden
• letter case
• lower case
• hard case
• sentence case
• title case
• upper case

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[edit] References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

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case

1. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank

   He drew the case eight!

[edit] References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

[edit] Verb

to case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)

1. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
2. (transitive) (informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
   • case the joint

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[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagrams: aces, Aces
• ASCE
• ESCA

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Borrowed from Latin casa; in some later senses borrowed via Spanish casa.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɑz/
• Homophones: cases

[edit] Noun

case f. (plural cases)

1. hut, cabin, shack
2. box (on form)
3. square (on boardgame)

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• case départ

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[edit] Noun

case f. pl.

1. Plural form of casa.

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[edit] Romanian

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case f. pl.

1. Plural form of casă.

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[edit] Verb

case (infinitive: casar)

1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of casar.
2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of casar.
3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of casar.
4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of casar.