Etymology : Middle English cas, from Old French, from Latin casus fall, chance, from cadere to fall; more at CHANCE
Pronunciation : kAs
Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. occasion; matter; legal case; situation; argument; category of inflection (Grammar); box, container; (Computers) metal box that houses the internal components of a computer. pack, crate, box, put in cases. case\case\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. cased ; p. pr. & vb. n. casing.].
2. to cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose. the man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
3. to strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [obs.]case \case\ (kās), n. [of. casse, f. caisse (cf. it. cassa), fr. l. capsa chest, box, case, fr. capere to take, hold. see:
capacious, and cf. 4th chase, cash, enchase, 3d sash.].
4. a box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
5. a box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
6. (print.) a shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.note: cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two, called respectively the upper and the lower case. the upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented and marked letters, fractions, and marks of reference: the lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
7. an inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
8. (mining) a small fissure which admits water to the workings.case \case\, v. i. to propose hypothetical cases. [obs.] "casing upon the matter."case \case\, n. [f. cas, fr. l. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to happen. cf. chance.].
9. chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [obs.] by aventure, or sort, or cas.
10. that which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the indian tribes. in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge. xxiv.
11. if the case of the man be so with his wife. xix.
12. and when a lady's in the case you know all other things give place. you think this madness but a common case. i am in case to justle a constable,.
13. (med. & surg.) a patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury. a proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.
14. (law) the matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause. let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason. ohn powell. not one case in the reports of our courts.
15. (gram.) one of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word. case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative. w. gibbs.note: cases other than the nominative are oblique cases. case endings are terminations by which certain cases are distinguished. in old english, as in latin, nouns had several cases distinguished by case endings, but in modern english only that of the possessive case is retained.
16. A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case of a cartridge; a case for a book.
17. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
18. A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
19. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
20. A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
21. To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
22. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
23. Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
24. That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
25. A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
26. The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
27. One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
28. To propose hypothetical cases. a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" the actual state of things; "that was not the case" nouns or pronouns or adjectives related in some way to other words in a sentence a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly" a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir" an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor" the quantity contained in a case a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters" look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed".
29. in full computer-aided software engineering Use of computers in designing sophisticated tools to aid the software engineer and to automate the software development process as much as possible. It is particularly useful where major software products are designed by teams of engineers who may not share the same physical space. CASE tools can be used for simple operations such as routine coding from an appropriately detailed design in a specific programming language, or for more complex tasks such as incorporating an expert system to enforce design rules and eliminate software defects and redundancies before the coding phase. Case Stephen Sacco Vanzetti case Scottsboro case Taff Vale case Dartmouth College case prize cases.
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