case
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English cas, from Old English cas, casus (“noun case”), from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin casus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cado (“to fall, to drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad- (“to fall”).
Noun [edit]
case (plural cases)
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
- It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
- In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]
- (now rare) A given condition or state.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- 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.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
- The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
- (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Tremarn Case[1]:
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Tremarn Case[1]:
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
- The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.
- Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
- Latin is a language that employs case.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- There were another five cases reported overnight.
- (computing, programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- 2004, Rick Miller, C++ for Artists
- Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
- 2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus (page 275)
- Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.
- 2004, Rick Miller, C++ for Artists
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- See also Wikisaurus:grammatical case
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Verb [edit]
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
- (obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
- L'Estrange
- Casing upon the matter.
- L'Estrange
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle English cas, from Old Northern French casse, Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capio (“to take, seize, hold”).
Noun [edit]
case (plural cases)
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- 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.
- (typography) 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.
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References [edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Adjective [edit]
case (not comparable)
References [edit]
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb [edit]
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.
- Prescott
- The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
- Prescott
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ISBN 9780396074427, p. 116:
- You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ISBN 9780396074427, p. 116:
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Asturian [edit]
Verb [edit]
case
- first-person singular present subjunctive of casar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of casar
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowed from Latin casa; in some later senses borrowed via Spanish casa.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
case f (plural cases)
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Galician [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin quasi (“as if”).
Adverb [edit]
case
Italian [edit]
Noun [edit]
case f pl
- Plural form of casa
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Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
case m (oblique plural cases, nominative singular cases, nominative plural case)
Portuguese [edit]
Verb [edit]
case
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of casar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of casar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of casar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of casar
Romanian [edit]
Noun [edit]
case f pl
- Plural form of casă
Spanish [edit]
Verb [edit]
case (infinitive casar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of casar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of casar.
Venetian [edit]
Noun [edit]
case f
- Plural form of casa
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with rare senses
- en:Law
- en:Grammar
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Medicine
- en:Computing
- en:Programming
- English verbs
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms derived from Old Northern French
- en:Typography
- en:Poker
- American English
- English adjectives
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- English informal terms
- English terms with multiple etymologies
- en:Containers
- en:Units of measure
- Asturian verb forms
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician adverbs
- Italian plurals
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- fro:Grammar
- Portuguese verb forms
- Portuguese forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Portuguese verb subjunctive forms
- Portuguese verb first-person forms
- Portuguese verb singular forms
- Portuguese verb present forms
- Portuguese verb third-person forms
- Portuguese verb imperative forms
- Portuguese verb affirmative forms
- Portuguese verb negative forms
- Romanian plurals
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
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- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
- Venetian plurals