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English
Pronunciation
Noun
casing (plural casings)
- That which encloses or encases.
- Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst.
- (architecture) The decorative trim around a door or window.
- (oil industry) A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
- (uncountable, computing) The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
- The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.
Derived terms
Translations
that which encloses or encases
- Bulgarian: обви́вка (bg) (obvívka), опако́вка (opakóvka)
- Catalan: coberta (ca) f
- Finnish: kotelo (fi), kuori (fi)
- German: Gehäuse (de) n, Überzug (de) m, Hülle (de) f, Ummantelung f, Schale (de) f, Verschalung f, Hülse (de) f
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Irish: cásáil f
- Italian: involucro (it) m
- Romanian: carcasă (ro) f
- Russian: кожу́х (ru) m (kožúx), обши́вка (ru) f (obšívka), футля́р (ru) m (futljár), оболо́чка (ru) (obolóčka), опра́ва (ru) f (opráva) (rim of spectacles)
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Verb
casing
- present participle of case
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