ALL meanings of case
case
C c - countable noun case A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something. 3
- countable noun case A case is a person or their particular problem that a doctor, social worker, or other professional is dealing with. 3
- countable noun case If you say that someone is a sad case or a hopeless case, you mean that they are in a sad situation or a hopeless situation. 3
- countable noun case A case is a crime or mystery that the police are investigating. 3
- countable noun case The case for or against a plan or idea consists of the facts and reasons used to support it or oppose it. 3
- countable noun case In law, a case is a trial or other legal inquiry. 3
- countable noun case A case is a container that is specially designed to hold or protect something. 3
- countable noun case A case is a suitcase. 3
- countable noun case A case of wine or other alcoholic drink is a box containing a number of bottles, usually twelve, which is sold as a single unit. 3
- countable noun case In the grammar of many languages, the case of a group such as a noun group or adjective group is the form it has which shows its relationship to other groups in the sentence. 3
- noun case a single instance, occurrence, or example of something 3
- noun case an instance of disease, injury, hardship, etc 3
- noun case a question or matter for discussion 3
- noun case a specific condition or state of affairs; situation 3
- noun case a set of arguments supporting a particular action, cause, etc 3
- noun case a person attended or served by a doctor, social worker, solicitor, etc; patient or client 3
- noun case (as modifier) 3
- noun case an action or suit at law or something that forms sufficient grounds for bringing an action 3
- noun case the evidence offered in court to support a claim 3
- noun case a set of grammatical categories of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, marked by inflection in some languages, indicating the relation of the noun, adjective, or pronoun to other words in the sentence 3
- noun case any one of these categories 3
- noun case a person in or regarded as being in a specified condition 3
- noun case a person of a specified character (esp in the phrase a hard case) 3
- noun case an odd person; eccentric 3
- noun case love or infatuation 3
- noun case a container, such as a box or chest 3
- noun case (in combination) 3
- noun case an outer cover or sheath, esp for a watch 3
- noun case a receptacle and its contents 3
- noun case a pair or brace, esp of pistols 3
- noun case a completed cover ready to be fastened to a book to form its binding 3
- noun case a tray divided into many compartments in which a compositor keeps individual metal types of a particular size and style. Cases were originally used in pairs, one (the upper case) for capitals, the other (the lower case) for small letters 3
- noun case the surface of a piece of steel that has been case-hardened 3
- verb case to put into or cover with a case 3
- verb case to inspect carefully (esp a place to be robbed) 3
- noun case an example, instance, or occurrence 3
- noun case a person being treated or helped, as by a doctor or social worker 3
- noun case any individual or matter requiring or undergoing official or formal observation, study, investigation, etc. 3
- noun case a statement of the facts or circumstances, as in a law court, esp. the argument of one side 3
- noun case supporting or convincing arguments or evidence; proper grounds for a statement or action 3
- noun case a legal action or suit, esp. one studied or cited as a precedent 3
- noun case a peculiar or eccentric person 3
- noun case an infatuation; crush 3
- noun case the syntactic relationship shown in highly inflected languages such as German and Latin by changes in the form of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives 3
- noun case the form that a noun, pronoun, or adjective takes to show such relationship 3
- noun case any of the sets of such forms 3
- noun case in Modern English and other languages with relatively few inflections, such a relationship, whether expressed by word order or by inflected forms; also, any of these forms or sets of forms, esp. the Modern English subjective, objective, and possessive forms of pronouns and possessive form of nouns 3
- verb transitive case to look over carefully, esp. in preparation for an intended robbery 3
- noun case a container, as a box, crate, chest, sheath, or folder 3
- noun case a protective cover or covering part 3