case
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).
Inflected forms:
form: cases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An actual event, situation, or fact.
pos: noun
examples: 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]
Conditioning would require exposition to any sentence before being uttered, which isn’t the case.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: A given condition or state.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face.
Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.
Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.
gloss: A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
gloss: An instance or event as a topic of study.
pos: noun
examples: The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
gloss: A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
pos: noun
examples: “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. […]”
As the conflict has dragged on, prosecutors in Ukraine are now pursuing 247 cases of environmental war crimes against Russia in Ukrainian courts and the International Criminal Court, according to reporting published in April by the New York Times.
gloss: A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
pos: noun
examples: The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.
Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
(16) (a) I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b)   I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from:
(17)   I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf.
 (18)   I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
gloss: Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
Latin is a language that employs case.
gloss: An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
pos: noun
examples: There were another five cases reported overnight.
We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
gloss: A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
pos: noun
examples: Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.
gloss: A love affair.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Poor fellow, just as I thought! It's a case with him, anybody can see that. He is thinking about Christine, for a certainty. Lovers always take to stargazing and moonlight dreaming — it's part of their complaint.
I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it. I saw it was a case, and I advised you to try — dissipation.
gloss: The last remaining card of a particular rank.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: He drew the case eight!
If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
Synonyms: befall
grammatical case
Derived words: as the case may be
base case
best-case
be the case
build a case
casal
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case citation
case closed
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case ending
case fatality rate
casefic
case file
case grammar
case history
case-in-chief
case in point
case law
caseless
caselike
caseload
caseman
case of the Mondays
case presentation
case report
case reporter
case study
case-to-case
casewise
casework
caseworker
catch a case
charity case
cold case
countercase
daycase
despatch case
edge case
federal case
flight case
Frankfurt case
get off someone's case
get on someone's case
Gettier case
gone case
hard case
hard cases make bad law
in case
index case
intercase
intracase
I rest my case
just in case
landmark case
leading case
lexicase
limit case
long case
make a case
make a case for
make a federal case out of something
make the case for
megacase
mental case
mixed case
multicase
noncase
not the case
nutcase
on a case-by-case basis
on the case
open and shut case
press one's case
privative case
put case
put the case
reserved case
rest one's case
sad case
space case
special case
stretcher case
subcase
test case
textbook case
the case rests
tough case
trespass on the case
use case
whatever the case may be
worse-case
worst-case
worst case scenario
worst-case scenario
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