Word: Case
How to pronounce: keɪs
Noun
Definitions:
1. An instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring.
Example sentences: "A case of mistaken identity"
2. An instance of a disease or problem.
Example sentences: "200,000 cases of hepatitis B"
3. A legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law.
Example sentences: "A libel case"
4. 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.
Example sentences: "The accusative case"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A container designed to hold or protect something.
Example sentences: "He placed the trumpet safely in its velvet-lined case"
2. Each of the two forms, capital or minuscule, in which a letter of the alphabet may be written or printed.
Example sentences: "In a few cases, mixed-case lettering has worked."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Surround in a material or substance.
Example sentences: "The towers are of steel cased in granite"
2. Reconnoiter (a place) before carrying out a robbery.
Synonyms:
event
circumstance
situation
contingency
box
pencil case
trunk
bin
casket
locker
instance
precedent
example
sample
illustration
exemplification
exemplar
fact
matter
actuality
reality
carrying case
caddy
shell
sheath
argument
proceeding
subject
rationale
face
reason
account
cause
lawsuit
suit
cover
showcase
vitrine
eventuality
possibility
challenge
trouble
attack
problem
clinical case
Antonyms:
unprecedented
regularity
Derivations:
casing
casework
cased
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Case in Other Languages...
Spanish: Caso
German: Fall
French: Cas
Italian: Caso
Turkish: Durum
