case

Noun

1. An actual event, situation, or fact.
2. (archaic) A given condition or state.
3. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
4. An instance or event as a topic of study.
5. A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
6. A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
7. (uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
8. An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
9. A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
10. (archaic) A love affair.

Verb

To propose hypothetical cases.

Adj

The last remaining card of a particular rank.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
2. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
3. (informal, transitive) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

Opposite of

noncase

Pronounced as (IPA)

/keɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cas

Inherited from Middle English: case

Cognate with Old French: chasse

Cognate with Spanish: caja

Cognate with Asturian: caxa

In summary

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”).

Synonyms

box

📦

matter

affair

business

chest

instance

sheath

business deal

lawsuit

situation

occasion

event

issue

cover

casing

circumstance

trunk

example

container

cause

casket

scabbard

receptacle

shell

🐚

character

thing

bag

condition

coffer

type

incident

subject

contingency

concern

item

vessel

grammatical case

housing

suit

slip

purse

👛

tin

trial

carton

bottle

encase

dispute

sack

eccentric

handbag

👜

Translations

cas

caso

🎲

Fall

caso

caja

📦

caixa

📦

cassa

cause

caso

affaire

Kasus

Gehäuse

doos

📦

przypadek

Kiste

Sentences

Are you sure that Joe case is going on next week ?

A filing case is now hard to buy .

In this case it is a product of linear factors with rational coefficients .