Definitions for casing

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casing cas·ing

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Casing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in casing (acgins).

Definitions for casing

noun

1. a case or covering; housing.
2. material for a case or covering.
3. the framework around a door or window.
4. the outermost covering of an automobile tire.
5. any frame or framework.
6. a steel pipe or tubing, especially as used in oil and gas wells.
7. a layer of glass that has been fused to an underlying layer of glass of a different color or of different properties.
8. the thin, tubular membrane of the intestines of sheep, cattle, or hogs, or a synthetic facsimile, for encasing processed meat in making sausages, salamis, etc.
9. Nautical. the walls surrounding a funnel.
10. a channel created in a garment or other article to carry a drawstring or elastic, as by sewing a strip of cloth to the basic material with two parallel rows of stitches.
11. an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle:
12. a sheath or outer covering:
13. a box with its contents:
14. the amount contained in a box or other container:
15. a pair or couple; brace:
16. a surrounding frame or framework, as of a door.
17. Bookbinding. a completed book cover ready to be fitted to form the binding of a book.
18. Printing. a tray of wood, metal, or plastic, divided into compartments for holding types for the use of a compositor and usually arranged in a set of two, the upper (upper case) for capital letters and often auxiliary types, the lower (lower case) for small letters and often auxiliary types, now generally replaced by the California job case. Compare news case.
19. a cavity in the skull of a sperm whale, containing an oil from which spermaceti is obtained.
20. Also called case card. Cards. the last card of a suit or denomination that remains after the other cards have been played:
21. Faro. casebox.
22. Southeastern U.S. (chiefly South Carolina) . a coin of a particular denomination, as opposed to the same amount in change:
23. Metallurgy. the hard outer part of a piece of casehardened steel.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or enclose in a case; cover with a case.
2. Slang. to examine or survey (a house, bank, etc.) in planning a crime (sometimes followed by out):
3. to fuse a layer of glass onto (glass of a contrasting color or of different properties).
4. to cover (a surface of a wall, well, shaft, etc.) with a facing or lining; revet.
5. Bookbinding. to bind (a book) in a case.
6. Cards Slang. to arrange (cards or a pack of cards) in a dishonest manner. to remember the quantity, suit, or denomination of (the cards played).

Origin of casing

First recorded in 1565-75; case² + -ing¹

Examples for casing

For the walls of the hole below the bottom of the casing had caved.

Now she was leaning against one casing of the doorway, now against the other.

The heart--whether inside white, black, straight, gay, or any other kind of casing--feels the same elation and pain.

In the end, they had to remove the battery and its casing from the electronics bay to save the airplane.

That is, the casing had been run on through the producing strata, shutting it off.

When they are done, the casing has transformed from translucent membrane into chewy, wrinkled coat.

I shifted and put the casing in my pocket, and when I did, I felt a quickening from my stomach to my jaw.

The casing also serves to retain a certain amount of lubricant.

It has straightforward guidance on casing the target, as well bypassing guards, security, cameras, and access control.

The door was open, but the casing was only three inches above the water.