verb
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To propose hypothetical cases.
verb
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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.
noun
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That which encloses or encases.
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Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst.
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The decorative trim around a door or window.
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A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
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The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
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The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.
Examples of casing in a Sentence
The warmth from his body enveloped her mind in a thin casing of security.
By the use of the spiral guide casing and the chimney the velocity of the effluent air is gradually FIG.
The first act of the female after oviposition is to wrap her eggs in a casing of silk commonly called the cocoon.
The typical mine fan consists of a shaft upon which are mounted a number of vanes enclosed in a casing; the air entering a central side inlet is caught up by the revolving vanes and thrown out at the periphery by the centrifugal force thus generated.
By means of a travelling crane the casing is placed within an iron drum, to which it is secured, and is then brought under an overhead vacuum pan, from which the cells are filled with massecuite.
After cooling, the casing is lifted out of the drum by a crane, assisted by compressed air, and is then conveyed by a travelling crane to a vertical centrifugal, inside of which it is made fast.
When this is done, the casing is hoisted out of the centrifugal and the vertical plates and the slabs of sugar are extracted.
Of these methods one of the chief is the plan of tubbing, or lining the excavation with an impermeable casing of wood or iron, generally the latter, built up in segments forming rings, which are piled upon each other throughout the whole depth of the water-bearing strata.
The lower quadrant of the casing is enlarged spirally, so as to leave a narrow rectangular opening at the bottom, through which the air is discharged into a chimney of gradually increasing section carried to a height of about 25 ft.
This replaced the propeller of the ship whose engines were to be tested, and the outer casing was held from turning by a suitable arrangement of levers carried to weighing apparatus conveniently disposed on the wharf.
The casing is held from turning by weights hanging on an attached arm.
The torque required to hold the casing still against the action of the disk measures the torque exerted by the shaft to which the disk is keyed.
Not only was he the first discoverer of the rotifers, but he showed "how wonderfully nature has provided for the preservation of their species," by their tolerance of the drying-up of the water they inhabit, and the resistance afforded to the evaporation of the fluids of their bodies by the impermeability of the casing in which they then become enclosed.
The material is placed in a perforated cage or "basket," which is enclosed in an outer casing, and when the cage is rapidly rotated by suitable gearing, the liquid portions are forced out into the external casing.
In some soils foundations may be obtained by the device of building a masonry casing like that of a well and excavating the soil inside; the casing gradually sinks and the masonry is continued at the surface.
The reel to which the raw silk is led consists of a light six-armed frame, enclosed within a wooden casing having a glass frame in front, the enclosure being heated with steam-pipes.
Built in brick, it was found necessary to give a more monumental appearance to the walls by a casing of stucco, which remains in fair preservation to the present day.
When the inside of the brass cup is ready a ball of opium previously weighed is placed on the leafy case in it, and the upper half of it covered with leaves in the same way that the casing for the lower half was made, the overhanging leaves of the lower half being pressed upwards and the sphere completed by one large leaf which is placed over the upper half.
Some weigh - bridges are arranged in a manner similar to that of the platform machines already described, but having the long body lever turned askew, so that the end of it projects considerably beyond the side of the weighbridge casing, and the pillar and steelyard which receive its pull are clear of the wagon on the platform.
The casing is fixed in supports on the top of a strong frame, which also carries a small platform machine of ordinary construction on which the goods to be weighed are placed.
At each end of the drum casing is attached a vertical spiral spring, and by the extension of these springs the weighing of the goods is effected.
There are also two vertical racks, one at each end of the casing, in connexion with - the two springs, and these actuate pinions on the axle of the drum and cause it to revolve as the springs extend.
By this means the zero of the scale on the drum can be adjusted to the fixed index on the casing when there are no goods on the platform.
The side of the casing which is next to the seller is pierced centrally by two slots, one a vertical slot through which the weight is read on the drum, and the other a horizontal slot, half of it on each side of the vertical slot, through which the money values of the goods, corresponding to the different rates per lb, are read.
The weight of the goods is recorded by means of an index pointer fixed to the casing on one side of the vertical slot, and the money values are opposite the figures defining the rates per lb, which are marked on the edge of the casing below the hori zontal slot.
On the side of the casing which is next to the buyer there is a vertical slot through which the weight of the goods can be read on the drum.
In the brake shown, the cone I is pressed against a corresponding recess in the ratchetwheel J, which latter turns loosely in the casing and is provided with a pawl not shown in the figure; this pawl allows freedom of motion when the load is being raised.
Such producers, frequently strengthened by a wrought iron casing, are even now used to a great extent.
The former are used principally as casing, walls, pillars or other supporting parts of the structure, and includes ordinary red or yellow bricks, clay-slate, granite and most building stones; the latter are reserved for the parts immediately in contact with the fuel and flame, such as the lining of the fire-place, the arches, roof and flues, the lower part if not the whole of the chimney lining in reverberatory furnaces, and the whole of the internal walls of blast furnaces.
The size of the discharge aperture can be varied by means of a flexible wooden shutter sliding in a groove in a cast iron plate, curved to the slope of the casing.
In other cases the strands undergo differentiation into an outer layer with blackened, hardened cell-walls and a core of ordinary hyphae, and are then termed rhizomorphs (Armillaria mellea), capable not only of extending the fungus in the soil, like roots, but also of lying dormant, protected by the outer casing.
The pull of the load is transmitted to a hook which hangs freely from the middle of a horizontal bar below the drum casing.
For the latter purpose, however, lime is generally used; but as this substance has only small stability, it is usually bedded in a casing of firebrick.
Puddling furnaces are usually entirely cased with iron plates, and blast furnaces with hoops round each course of the stack, or in those of thinner constructions the firebrick work is entirely enclosed in a wrought iron casing or jacket.
The outer casing is a toughened skin which can be injected with your favorite liquid attractant to give a timed release of flavor.
The initial mold will then lie securely in the plaster bandage casing.
The bright butterflies lifted in a multicolored cloud from the worn and pitted casing, canted in its green bower.
And you can continue to take photos and videos without removing the casing.
Its movements had all the hallmarks of being a spent rocket casing or other piece of space junk.
And he was a compulsive peeler, itching to open the casing of things and people, to winkle out the content packed within.
Ends of sleeves are turned to the interior to form a casing through which a string cord is threaded.
The robust outer casing is designed to cope with heavy usage even in public places.
The projector comes packaged in a sleek, black piano finish casing.
Brushed stainless steel casing makes this bread maker a stylish, as well as versatile, machine.
The rugged casing has given many the opinion that the unit can take life's larger knocks, like being dropped!
The rugged waterproof outer casing is wrapped in a rubberised strip for a positive, reassuring feel.
Note also how the slot in the top of the centreplate casing has been extended aft by about ten inches.
The beautiful silver plastic and aluminum casing is great to look at, but it is slippery.
High definition automotive LCD screen housed in a magnesium alloy casing.
The rock solid aluminum interior casing has gone, to be replaced by tin sheeting folded over the main board.