case
/keɪs/
Dictionary
noun
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
"For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth."
- A given condition or state.
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
"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."
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
"The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies."
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
"The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh."
- (grammar) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
"Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages. Latin is a language that employs case."
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
"There were another five cases reported overnight."
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
verb
- To propose hypothetical cases.
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