Word Finder - cases

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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.

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A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

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A box, sheath, or covering generally.

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a case for spectacles; the case of a watch

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A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

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An enclosing frame or casing.

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a door case; a window case

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A suitcase.

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A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

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The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

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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).

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(by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

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Four of a kind.

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A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

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A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

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A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.

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A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

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a single case of Bud Light

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• carton

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To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

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To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

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To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

How many cases has she been involved in?

Any new happening outside the mundane assortment of drug cases, burglaries, domestic disturbances or a semi-annual Saturday night passion killing came as a welcome change.

Arthur took all his funny cases with him.

In some cases the material traverses the chamber from the coolest to the hottest part on a conveyer or in wagons.

Bakewell is noted for a chalybeate spring, of use in cases of chronic rheumatism, and there are baths attached to it.

It is of course quite possible that isolated cases of officers being put to death for their faith occurred during Maximinian's reign, and on some such cases the legend may have grown up during the century and a half between Maximinian and Eucherius.

In most cases four spores are formed within the cell by free formation.

In most cases two distinct maxima and minima occur in the 24 hours.

In all cases the mean value for the 24 hours is taken as 100.

Because its meaning has to be imputed, we have tended to describe it in terms of prior technologies—which, in many cases, understates its potential by many orders of magnitude.

In 1916, the number of cases just in New York City was reported to be nine thousand.

Hundreds of thousands of cases were still, of course, in the rest of the world even three decades after Salk's breakthrough.

I was surprised the FBI didn't press us on some of these more prominent cases.

It was always young girls so I started looking at old unsolved cases; missing children as well as murders.

It's tough on these old cases, especially if it's considered solved.

I authorized the dispersal of two tons of water and twenty cases of rations from the emergency site in Raleigh along with hazmat drivers and twelve vehicles.

At present, there are about one hundred new cases reported per month around the world, infecting about the same number of people as die from lightning strikes.

Though cases like these are not really how the science will be used, they illustrate the principle.

Most cases aren't like our jelly bean example where each person had the items the other person wanted.

And yet, we know of no cases of mass "left behind-ness," of people unable to learn how to function in this environment.

In both those cases, a technology or technique came along that actually changed the way people think.

Not merely in these cases but continually did that old man--who by experience of life had reached the conviction that thoughts and the words serving as their expression are not what move people--use quite meaningless words that happened to enter his head.

I don't care about solving cases.

Is it one of your cases?

So we somehow refer cases to you?

We have this pledge among ourselves not getting a Texas mile near any of these cases.

How do you find individual cases?

That's what they do; chase old unresolved cases.

She'd located two promising missing children cases from the past forty-eight hours.

Only half are black and half nut cases.

The young attorney was always well pre­pared, and the police appreciated how tenaciously he pursued his cases.

Humans are afforded special protections in most cases.

In the cases where the observations were confined to a few months the representative nature of the results is more doubtful.

Many instances are on record of symptoms of poisoning, and even death, having followed the consumption of plants which have passed as true mushrooms; these cases have probably arisen from the examples consumed being in a state of decay, or from some mistake as to the species eaten.

In cases of poisoning by mushrooms immediate medical advice should be secured.

The material employed in all cases is the droppings of horses, which should be collected fresh, and spread out in thin layers in a dry place, a portion of the short litter being retained well moistened by horse-urine.

Many other fungi in addition to the fairy-ring champignon grow in circles, so that this habit must merely be taken with its other characters in cases of doubt.

It is bounded on the north-west by Ohio, from which it is separated by the Ohio river, on the north by Pennsylvania and Maryland, the Potomac river dividing it from the latter state; on the east and south-east by Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, the boundary lines in the first two cases being meridians, in the last case a very irregular line following the crest of mountain ridges in places; and on the south-west by Virginia and Kentucky, the Big Sandy river separating it from the latter state.

The judges have appellate jurisdiction of cases civil and criminal coming up from the lower courts.

Worship of an emperor during his lifetime, except as the worship of his genius, was, save in the cases of Caligula and Domitian, confined to the provinces.

Where the ritual, as in most cases, is a revival of pre-Reformation.

His work as a barrister was chiefly concerned with pedigree cases before the House of Lords.

In both cases two eyepieces are employed, one to view each separate web.

In these cases, however, the " infallibility " connotes certainty only in so far as anything human can be certain.

In most cases, owing to the mountainous character of the country, horizontal galleries are possible.

In neither of these cases have the subsidiary buildings been fully traced out.

A final argument is the existence in some cases of a village of circular stone buildings of similar construction to the nuraghi, but only 15 to 25 ft.

The tomb proper was no doubt covered with a mound of earth, which has in most cases disappeared.

In all cases canonical institution (which confers ecclesiastical jurisdiction) is reserved to the pope or the bishops.

Ecclesiastical immunities, such as reservation of the criminal cases of the clergy, exemption from military service and other privileges, are expressly maintained in a certain number of pacts.