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ALL meanings of case

case
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  • abbreviation CASE container 1
  • noun case An actual event, situation, or fact. 0
  • noun case (now rare) A given condition or state. 0
  • noun case A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. 0
  • noun case (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study. 0
  • noun case (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit. 0
  • noun case (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence. 0
  • noun case (Uncountable Noun) (grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. 0
  • noun case (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms. 0
  • noun case (computing, programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch. 0
  • noun case A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture. 0
  • noun case A box, sheath, or covering generally. 0
  • noun case A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine. 0
  • noun case An enclosing frame or casing. 0
  • noun case A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed. 0
  • noun case The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer. 0
  • noun case (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces). 0
  • noun case (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter. 0
  • noun case (poker slang) Four of a kind. 0
  • noun case (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces. 0
  • noun case (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings. 0
  • verb case (Obsolete (No longer in use)) To propose hypothetical cases. 0
  • verb case (Transitive Verb) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. 0
  • verb case (Transitive Verb) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. 0
  • verb case (Transitive Verb) INF To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery. 0
  • adjective case (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank. 0
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