noun. A container; a receptacle.

noun. A container with its contents.

noun. A decorative or protective covering or cover.

noun. A set or pair.

noun. The frame or framework of a window, door, or stairway.

noun. The surface or outer layer of a metal alloy.

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noun. A shallow compartmented tray for storing type or type matrices.

noun. The form of a written, printed, or keyed letter that distinguishes it as being lowercase or uppercase.

transitive verb. To put into or cover with a case; encase.

transitive verb. To examine carefully, as in planning a crime.

noun. An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category: synonym: example.

noun. An occurrence of a disease or disorder.

noun. A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation.

noun. Actual fact; reality.

noun. A question or problem; a matter.

noun. A situation that requires investigation, especially by a formal or official body.

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noun. An action or a suit or just grounds for an action.

noun. The facts or evidence offered in support of a claim.

noun. A set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument.

noun. A person being assisted, treated, or studied, as by a physician, lawyer, or social worker.

noun. A peculiar or eccentric person; a character.

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noun. In traditional grammar, a distinct form of a noun, pronoun, or modifier that is used to express one or more particular syntactic relationships to other words in a sentence.

noun. In some varieties of generative grammar, the thematic or semantic role of a noun phrase as represented abstractly but not necessarily indicated overtly in surface structure. In such frameworks, nouns in English have Case even in the absence of inflectional case endings.

idiom. (in any case) Regardless of what has occurred or will occur.

idiom. (in case) If it happens that; if.

idiom. (in case) As a precaution.

idiom. (in case of) If there should happen to be.

idiom. (off (someone's) case) No longer nagging or urging someone to do something.

idiom. (on (someone's) case) Persistently nagging or urging someone to do something.

To put cases; bring forward propositions.

noun. In the tobacco trade, the state of the leaf, during and after the process of curing, with respect to moisture-content and pliability: common in such phrases as in case (more or less moist), in good case (with the right degree of moisture), too high case, etc. See order, 17.

noun. An action brought, usually by agreement between parties, in which the constitutionality or validity of an act will be brought in question and judicially determined.

To bring into the desired ‘case’ or condition; specifically, in the tobacco trade, to bring the leaf into the desired condition as to moisture and pliability, and the admixture of ingredients to give flavor, etc. See case, n., 9, *caser, n., and *casing, n. Also spelled in the trade, kase.

noun. In the postal service, a series of open boxes or large pigeonholes in which letters are placed in assorting them for distribution. Each box is for a particular place, and the distributor, standing at a table in a post-office or railway postal car, throws each letter into the proper box in the case.

noun. Nautical, the outside planking of a vessel.

noun. In whaling, the well or hole in the head of a sperm-whale, which contains, in a free state, the most valuable oil given by it.

noun. In faro, a card when it is the only one of its denomination remaining in the dealing-box.

noun. Literally, that which happens or befalls. Hap; contingency; event; chance.

noun. State; condition; state of circumstances.

noun. A particular determination of events or circumstances; a special state of things coming under a general description or rule.

noun. In medicine, an instance of disease under or requiring medical treatment, or the series of occurrences or symptoms which characterize it: as, the doctor has many cases of fever in hand; the patient explained his case.

noun. A state of things involving a question for discussion or decision.

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noun. In law: A cause or suit in court; any instance of litigation: as, the case was tried at the last term.

noun. The state of facts or the presentation of evidence on which a party to litigation relies for his success, whether as plaintiff or defendant: as, in cross-examining plaintiff's witness, defendant has no right to go beyond the limits of the direct examination, for such inquiries are part of his own case.

noun. Under American procedure, a document prepared by the appellant on an appeal, containing the evidence, or the substance of it, and the proceedings on the trial in the court below.

noun. In grammar, in many languages, one of the forms having different offices in the sentence which together make up the inflection of a noun: as, the nominative case, that of the subject of the verb, as he, dominus (Latin); the accusative or objective case, as him, dominum; the genitive or possessive case, as his (John's), domini.