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      case
      noun
      An actual event, situation, or fact.
      A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
      (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
      (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
      (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
      (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
      (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
      (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
      A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
      A box, sheath, or covering generally.
      A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
      An enclosing frame or casing.
      A suitcase.
      A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
      The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
      (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
      (poker slang) Four of a kind.
      (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
      (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
      A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
      A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
      (manufacturing) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
      (computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.
      (grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
      A surname.
      A place name:
      A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States.
      An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
      An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
      (now rare) A given condition or state.
      (archaic) A love affair.
      (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).
      (UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
      verb
      (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
      (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
      (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
      (obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.
      adjective
      (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
      Roots
      casuscase- · Latin · a falling, occurrence, chance
      Synonyms for case
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      Words related to case
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