- nouncase (noun) · cases (plural noun)
- an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:"a case of mistaken identity" · "in many cases, valid statistics are not available"
- the situation affecting or relating to a particular person or thing; one's circumstances or position:"I'll make an exception in your case"
- an incident or set of circumstances under police investigation:"a murder case"
- an instance of a disease or problem:"200,000 cases of hepatitis B"
- a person or their particular problem requiring or receiving medical or welfare attention:"most breast cancer cases were older women" · "urgent cases were turned away from the hospital" · "the welfare office discussed Gerald's case"
- informala person whose situation is regarded as pitiable or as having no chance of improvement:"Vicky was a very sad case"
- informaldatedan amusing or eccentric person.
- a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law:"a libel case" · "a former employee brought the case against the council"
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side in a legal action:"the case for the defense"
- a legal action that has been decided and may be cited as a precedent.
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or controversy:"the case against tobacco advertising"
- grammarany of the inflected forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence:"the accusative case"
- the relation of a grammatical case to other words in the sentence, whether indicated by inflection or not:"English normally expresses case by the use of prepositions"
OriginOld English casus (in case), from Latin casus ‘fall’, related to cadere ‘to fall’; subsequently reinforced by Old French cas; in case directly from Latin, translating Greek ptōsis, literally ‘fall’.nouncase (noun) · cases (plural noun)- a container designed to hold or protect something:"he placed the trumpet safely in its velvet-lined case"
- the outer protective covering of a natural or manufactured object:"a seed case"
- an item of luggage; a suitcase.
- a box containing bottles or cans of a beverage, sold as a unit:"there are twelve bottles of champagne in a case"
verbcase (verb) · cases (third person present) · cased (past tense) · cased (past participle) · casing (present participle)- surround in a material or substance:"the towers are of steel cased in granite"
- enclose in a protective container:"he cased his glasses carefully and walked out"
- informalreconnoiter (a place) before carrying out a robbery:"I was casing the joint"
Originlate Middle English: from Old French casse, chasse (modern caisse ‘trunk, chest’, châsse ‘reliquary, frame’), from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:
- an instance of a disease or problem:
- a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law:
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or controversy:
- any of the inflected forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence:
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- Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.be the case (third-person singular simple present is the case, present participle being the case, simple past was the case, past participle been the case) (stative) To exist as an independent fact of (external) reality.en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be_the_casecase, 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".www.definitions.net/definition/case
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