Meaning of case | Babel Free

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1. abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
2. A surname.
3. case (situation or fact)
4. computer-aided software engineering.
5. An actual event, situation, or fact.
6. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
7. Regardless of what has occurred or will occur.
8. A place name:
9. A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States.
10. case (instance of a medical condition)
11. coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
12. A given condition or state.
    archaic
13. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
14. If there should happen to be: a number to call in case of emergency.
15. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
16. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
17. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
18. No longer nagging or urging someone to do something.
19. An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.
20. An instance or event as a topic of study.
21. An enclosing frame or casing.
22. Persistently nagging or urging someone to do something.
23. occasion
24. A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
25. A suitcase.
26. The relationship that a word has to the other words in a sentence, often shown by the form the word takes.
27. A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
28. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
29. Informal. To look at carefully or critically:check (out), con, examine, go over, inspect, peruse, scrutinize, study, survey, traverse, view.
30. Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
    uncountable
31. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
32. in order to guard against a possibility. I'll take an umbrella in case (it rains). ingeval في حالَةِ، فيما لَو ако caso pro případ falls i tilfælde af για παν ενδεχόμενο por si acaso igaks juhuks, juhuks kui مبادا؛ اگر kaiken varalta au cas oû בְכָל מִקְרֶה यदि u slučaju ha netalán jangan-jangan ef, til vonar og vara in caso 万一に備えて 만일을 생각하여 jeigu, tuo atveju, jei gadījumā jika voor het geval i tilfelle, for alle tilfellers skyldjeżeli مګر para o caso de pentru orice eventualitate на случай pr...
33. An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
34. 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).
    historical
35. if (a particular thing) happens. In case of fire, telephone the fire brigade. ingeval van في حالَةِ حُدوث в случай на/че no caso de v případě im Falle von i tilfælde af; ved σε περίπτωση που en caso de que puhul در صورت؛ اگر jnk varalta en cas de בְּמִקרֶה שֶׁל इस दशा में ako zatreba ... esetén kalau terjadi ef e-ð tiltekið ber að höndum in caso di ～の場合には (~의) 경우 (kokiu nors) atveju, (kam nors) kilus gadījumā jika in geval van i tilfelle w razie مګر no caso de în caz de в случае если v prípad...
36. A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
37. The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
    broadly
38. if that should happen or should have happened. You're leaving? In that case, I'm leaving too. in daardie geval في هذِهِ الحالَةِ в такъв случай nesse caso v tom případě in diesem Falle i det tilfælde; i så fald σε αυτήν την περίπτωση en ese caso säärasel juhul در آن صورت siinä tapauksessa dans ce cas אִם כָּך הַדָּבַר इस मामले में भी u tom slučaju abban az esetben kalau begitu í því tilfelli, fyrst svo er in questo caso それなら 그 경우 tokiu atveju tādā gadījumā jikalau in dat gevali så fall w taki...
39. A love affair.
    archaic
40. Four of a kind.
    slang
41. caso; ___ fatality rate → índice de mortalidad por ___-s;
42. A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
    US
43. A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
44. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
45. A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
46. A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
    UK, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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]”

“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.”

“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.”

“We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.”

“The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.”

“The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.”

“He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.”

““Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]””

“As the conflict has dragged on, prosecutors in Ukraine are now pursuing 247 cases of environmental war crimes against Russia in Ukrainian courts and the International Criminal Court, according to reporting published in April by the New York Times.”

“The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.”

“Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.”

“Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from: (16) (a) I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] (16) (b)   I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from: (17)   I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow] And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf. (18)   I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]”

“Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.”

“Latin is a language that employs case.”

“There were another five cases reported overnight.”

“We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.”

“Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.”

“Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.”

“Poor fellow, just as I thought! It's a case with him, anybody can see that. He is thinking about Christine, for a certainty. Lovers always take to stargazing and moonlight dreaming — it's part of their complaint.”

“I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it. I saw it was a case, and I advised you to try — dissipation.”

“a case for spectacles; the case of a watch”

“a door case; a window case”

“a single case of Bud Light”

“The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.”

“The basic principle governing case is: (20) The Case filter: A lexicalized NP must bear a Case feature in S-structure. ‘Case’ with a capital C is here understood not as morphologically marked case, but as an abstract feature which will be present even in languages such as Swahili or Chinese which lack case marking on NPs (it is usually assumed however, that Case will be congruent with morphological case where the latter is present).”

“When we have clitic doubling constructions (with both a full NP and a clitic), the NP needs a dummy Case marker in order to get Case, as its “normal” Case is absorbed by the clitic, otherwise it will be ruled out by the Case Filter. It must be stressed that ‘Case’ here is abstract Case (written with capital C), a licensing requirement making arguments visible for θ-marking, and not morphological case.”

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