Case

/keɪs/ · noun

Meaning

An actual event, situation, or fact..

Definitions by Sense

1. An actual event, situation, or fact.
2. (now rare) A given condition or state.
3. A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
4. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
5. (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
6. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
7. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
8. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

Example Sentences

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

It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.

In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]

Conditioning would require exposition to any sentence before being uttered, which isn’t the case.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face.

Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.

Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.

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Word Forms

• cases
• casing
• cased

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