Definitions for CASE

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IPA: /keɪs/

Case is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in CASE (aces).

Definitions for CASE

noun

1. an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something:
2. the actual state of things:
3. a question or problem of moral conduct; matter:
4. situation; circumstance; plight:
5. a person or thing whose plight or situation calls for attention:
6. a specific occurrence or matter requiring discussion, decision, or investigation, as by officials or law-enforcement authorities:
7. a stated argument used to support a viewpoint:
8. an instance of disease, injury, etc., requiring medical or surgical attention or treatment; individual affliction:
9. a medical or surgical patient.
10. Law. a suit or action at law; cause. a set of facts giving rise to a legal claim, or to a defense to a legal claim.
11. Grammar. a category in the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, noting the syntactic relation of these words to other words in the sentence, indicated by the form or the position of the words. a set of such categories in a particular language. the meaning of or the meaning typical of such a category. such categories or their meanings collectively.
12. Informal. a peculiar or unusual person:
13. an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle:
14. a sheath or outer covering:
15. a box with its contents:
16. the amount contained in a box or other container:
17. a pair or couple; brace:
18. a surrounding frame or framework, as of a door.
19. Bookbinding. a completed book cover ready to be fitted to form the binding of a book.
20. 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.
21. a cavity in the skull of a sperm whale, containing an oil from which spermaceti is obtained.
22. Also called case card. Cards. the last card of a suit or denomination that remains after the other cards have been played:
23. Faro. casebox.
24. Southeastern U.S. (chiefly South Carolina) . a coin of a particular denomination, as opposed to the same amount in change:
25. Metallurgy. the hard outer part of a piece of casehardened steel.

Idioms

1. get / be on someone's case, Slang. to bother or nag someone; meddle in someone's affairs:
2. get off someone's case, Slang. to stop bothering or criticizing someone or interfering in someone's affairs:
3. have a case on, Slang. to be infatuated with:
4. in any case, regardless of circumstances; be that as it may; anyhow:
5. in case, if it should happen that; if:
6. in case of, in the event of; if there should be:
7. in no case, under no condition; never:

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 CASE

before 1150; Middle English ca(a)s Anglo-French, Old French cas Latin cāsus fall, accident, event, grammatical case (translation of Greek ptôsis), equivalent to cad(ere) to fall + -tus suffix

Examples for CASE

The husband in my case was to be an inconvenience, but doubtless an amusing one.

Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.

A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

He knew that his case was hopeless, and he would not thaw even to the priest.

Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.

The true remedy is not to be sought in that direction in the one case any more than the other.

Humans are funniest when they weep and tremble before, like you say, 'the facts in the case.'

Friends were there asking after their own Will, or John, or Thomas, as the case might be.

And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.

Her latest book, Heretic: The case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.