Word Finder - case

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An actual event, situation, or fact.

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For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.

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A given condition or state.

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A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

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It was one of the detective's easiest cases.  Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.  The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.

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(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.

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The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

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A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

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(grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

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The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.  Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

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(grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

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Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.  Latin is a language that employs case.

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An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

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There were another five cases reported overnight.

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A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

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To propose hypothetical cases.

But this is not the case historically.

Don't plead my case for me.

You should take notes in case we forget some detail.

To build a case for the end of poverty, we begin by discussing scarcity.

He remained adverse to any case where he knew for sure that someone was killed.

In any case, he found something else interesting.

It gives everyone a chance to make her case and be heard.

In one case, the technology, writing, probably resulted in our memories getting worse, but we gained much more than we lost.

The point of this gold indicator bends over the edge of the case, round which are set eleven raised points--the stem forms the twelfth.

In any case, Alex might not be happy with her old-fashioned ideas.

Howie remained obsessed that he'd failed to nail the culprit and when he heard of this later case, he begged Quinn to take enough time away from his wife and new daughter for a single session.

I believe this is the case with energy.

But in this case I don't think I made a mistake.

The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated with red light like a Russian church during evening service.

In that case you would not have obliged me to give this refusal.

Her fingers found the door handle - just in case.

A case of pure stupidity; picking up a hitchhiking teenager.

I'll try to dig up an old case file if you decide you want my help.

In this case, we pay for the use of a womb.

Only the lid of the case containing the carpets would not shut down.

Yet before the day was over, it was obvious that wasn't the case.

Either situation might be the case.

That wasn't the case.

Whatever the case, Natalie began suckling as soon as the nipple was in her mouth.

In any case, Yancey didn't seem to be all that determined to avoid a relationship.

Each case I handle gives me that much more experience.

In another case, a missing twelve year old boy turned out to be a runaway.

She would determine which case had the best chance of success.

I recognized the case.

We almost passed up the case, thinking it was yet another teenager leaving home on her own.

I asked Daniel Brennan if there was any progress in the Bryce case.

In this case, I didn't waste my time trying.

She had expected to find Alex had paid the hospital bill, but that wasn't the case.

In her case, any change would have to be an improvement - and what about the loss of innocence?

Two receiving instruments, a siphon recorder and a mirror galvanometer, are shown; one only is absolutely necessary, but it is convenient Cable to have the galvanometer ready, so that in case of accident to the recorder it may be at once switched into circuit by the switch s.

This would be the case in a besieged city or a nation using the food supply to keep its citizenry in check.

But I am making a case I believe I can defend and will begin by defining my terms.

I told her that the book wasn't afraid, and must sleep in its case, and that "girl" mustn't read in bed.

The forest has never so good a setting, nor is so distinctly beautiful, as when seen from the middle of a small lake amid hills which rise from the water's edge; for the water in which it is reflected not only makes the best foreground in such a case, but, with its winding shore, the most natural and agreeable boundary to it.

Maybe it was more a case of wishing it were so.

Still, it didn't hurt to let someone know - just in case.

That couldn't happen in Howie's case.

She increased our supply by five dollars' worth, just in case.

I don't mean the four attempts on the one case.

Under no circumstances should we ever personally get directly involved with a case.

The crime was eerily reminiscent of the Delaware kidnapping case where Howie was unsuccessful.

Especially, I want to succeed spectacularly with the type of case we handled today.

Martha had continued to take copious notes on each and every case.

He hinted this case was only one of his many accomplishments.

Sorry. That was a pretty blatant case of prying, wasn't it?