case

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casé (frequentative casamcasé, passive cassiimé)

casé (canonical)
casamcasé (frequentative)
cassiimé (passive)
caséh (first-person perfective singular v-affirmative)
castéh (perfective second-person singular v-affirmative)
caséh (masculine perfective singular third-person v-affirmative)
castéh (feminine perfective singular third-person v-affirmative)
casnéh (first-person perfective plural v-affirmative)
casteeníh (perfective plural second-person v-affirmative)
caseeníh (perfective plural third-person v-affirmative)
casé (first-person n-affirmative perfective singular)
casté (n-affirmative perfective second-person singular)
casé (masculine n-affirmative perfective singular third-person)
casté (feminine n-affirmative perfective singular third-person)
casné (first-person n-affirmative perfective plural)
castén (n-affirmative perfective plural second-person)
casén (n-affirmative perfective plural third-person)
mácasinniyo (first-person negative perfective singular)
mácasinnito (negative perfective second-person singular)
mácasinna (masculine negative perfective singular third-person)
mácasinna (feminine negative perfective singular third-person)
mácasinnino (first-person negative perfective plural)
mácasinniton (negative perfective plural second-person)
mácasinnon (negative perfective plural third-person)
casáh (first-person imperfective singular v-affirmative)
castáh (imperfective second-person singular v-affirmative)
casáh (imperfective masculine singular third-person v-affirmative)
castáh (feminine imperfective singular third-person v-affirmative)
casnáh (first-person imperfective plural v-affirmative)
castaanáh (imperfective plural second-person v-affirmative)
casaanáh (imperfective plural third-person v-affirmative)
casá (first-person imperfective n-affirmative singular)
castá (imperfective n-affirmative second-person singular)
casá (imperfective masculine n-affirmative singular third-person)
castá (feminine imperfective n-affirmative singular third-person)
casná (first-person imperfective n-affirmative plural)
castán (imperfective n-affirmative plural second-person)
casán (imperfective n-affirmative plural third-person)
mácasa (first-person imperfective negative singular)
mácasta (imperfective negative second-person singular)
mácasa (imperfective masculine negative singular third-person)
mácasta (feminine imperfective negative singular third-person)
mácasna (first-person imperfective negative plural)
mácastan (imperfective negative plural second-person)
mácasan (imperfective negative plural third-person)
caséliyoh (first-person prospective singular v-affirmative)
caséyyoh (first-person prospective singular v-affirmative)
casélitoh (prospective second-person singular v-affirmative)
caséttoh (prospective second-person singular v-affirmative)
caséleh (masculine prospective singular third-person v-affirmative)
caséleh (feminine prospective singular third-person v-affirmative)
casélinoh (first-person plural prospective v-affirmative)
casénnoh (first-person plural prospective v-affirmative)
casélitoonuh (plural prospective second-person v-affirmative)
caséttoonuh (plural prospective second-person v-affirmative)
caséloonuh (plural prospective third-person v-affirmative)
caséliyo (first-person n-affirmative prospective singular)
caséyyo (first-person n-affirmative prospective singular)
casélito (n-affirmative prospective second-person singular)
casétto (n-affirmative prospective second-person singular)
caséle (masculine n-affirmative prospective singular third-person)
caséle (feminine n-affirmative prospective singular third-person)
casélino (first-person n-affirmative plural prospective)
casénno (first-person n-affirmative plural prospective)
caséliton (n-affirmative plural prospective second-person)
casétton (n-affirmative plural prospective second-person)
casélon (n-affirmative plural prospective third-person)
cásuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person singular v-affirmative)
cástuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i second-person singular v-affirmative)
cásuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i masculine singular third-person v-affirmative)
cástuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i feminine singular third-person v-affirmative)
cásuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person plural v-affirmative)
castóonuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i plural second-person v-affirmative)
casóonuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i plural third-person v-affirmative)
cásu (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person n-affirmative singular)
cástu (conjunctive conjunctive-i n-affirmative second-person singular)
cásu (conjunctive conjunctive-i masculine n-affirmative singular third-person)
cástu (conjunctive conjunctive-i feminine n-affirmative singular third-person)
cásu (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person n-affirmative plural)
castón (conjunctive conjunctive-i n-affirmative plural second-person)
casón (conjunctive conjunctive-i n-affirmative plural third-person)
casé wáyuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person negative singular)
casé wáytuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i negative second-person singular)
casé wáyuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i masculine negative singular third-person)
casé wáytuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i feminine negative singular third-person)
casé wáynuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i first-person negative plural)
casé waytóonuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i negative plural second-person)
casé wóonuh (conjunctive conjunctive-i negative plural third-person)
casánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person singular v-affirmative)
castánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii second-person singular v-affirmative)
casánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii masculine singular third-person v-affirmative)
castánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii feminine singular third-person v-affirmative)
casnánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person plural v-affirmative)
castaanánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii plural second-person v-affirmative)
casaanánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii plural third-person v-affirmative)
casánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person n-affirmative singular)
castánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii n-affirmative second-person singular)
casánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii masculine n-affirmative singular third-person)
castánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii feminine n-affirmative singular third-person)
casnánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person n-affirmative plural)
castaanánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii n-affirmative plural second-person)
casaanánke (conjunctive conjunctive-ii n-affirmative plural third-person)
casé wáankeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person negative singular)
casé waytánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii negative second-person singular)
casé wáankeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii masculine negative singular third-person)
casé waytánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii feminine negative singular third-person)
casé waynánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii first-person negative plural)
casé waytaanánkeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii negative plural second-person)
casé wáankeh (conjunctive conjunctive-ii negative plural third-person)
cásay (affirmative first-person jussive singular)
cástay (affirmative jussive second-person singular)
cásay (affirmative jussive masculine singular third-person)
cástay (affirmative feminine jussive singular third-person)
cásay (affirmative first-person jussive plural)
castóonay (affirmative jussive plural second-person)
casóonay (affirmative jussive plural third-person)
casé wáay (first-person jussive negative singular)
casé wáytay (jussive negative second-person singular)
casé wáay (jussive masculine negative singular third-person)
casé wáytay (feminine jussive negative singular third-person)
casé wáynay (first-person jussive negative plural)
casé waytóonay (jussive negative plural second-person)
casé wóonay (jussive negative plural third-person)
casinniyóy (affirmative conditional first-person past singular)
casinnitóy (affirmative conditional past second-person singular)
casinnáy (affirmative conditional masculine past singular third-person)
casinnáy (affirmative conditional feminine past singular third-person)
casinninóy (affirmative conditional first-person past plural)
casinnitoonúy (affirmative conditional past plural second-person)
casinnoonúy (affirmative conditional past plural third-person)
casé wanniyóy (conditional first-person negative past singular)
casé wannitóy (conditional negative past second-person singular)
casé wannáy (conditional masculine negative past singular third-person)
casé wannáy (conditional feminine negative past singular third-person)
casé wanninóy (conditional first-person negative past plural)
casé wannitoonúy (conditional negative past plural second-person)
casé wanninoonúy (conditional negative past plural third-person)
casék (affirmative conditional conditional-i first-person present singular)
casték (affirmative conditional conditional-i present second-person singular)
casék (affirmative conditional conditional-i masculine present singular third-person)
casték (affirmative conditional conditional-i feminine present singular third-person)
casnék (affirmative conditional conditional-i first-person plural present)
casteeník (affirmative conditional conditional-i plural present second-person)
caseeník (affirmative conditional conditional-i plural present third-person)
casé wéek (conditional conditional-i first-person negative present singular)
casé wayték (conditional conditional-i negative present second-person singular)
casé wéek (conditional conditional-i masculine negative present singular third-person)
casé wayték (conditional conditional-i feminine negative present singular third-person)
casé waynék (conditional conditional-i first-person negative plural present)
casé wayteeník (conditional conditional-i negative plural present second-person)
casé weeník (conditional conditional-i negative plural present third-person)
casóo (affirmative consultative singular)
casnóo (affirmative consultative plural)
cás (affirmative singular)
cása (affirmative plural)
macasóo (consultative negative singular)
macasnóo (consultative negative plural)
mácasin (negative singular)
mácasina (negative plural)
cásah (converb h-converb)
cási (converb i-form)
cásak (converb k-converb)
casínnuh (converb innuh-converb plural)
casínnuk (converb innuk-converb plural)
casíyya (infinitive plural)
casináanih (indefinite participle v-focus)
casináan (indefinite n-focus participle)
-k converb + imperfective of én (multiword-construction past progressive)
-k converb + prospective of sugé (future multiword-construction progressive)
imperfective + -m + takké (affirmative imperfect multiword-construction potential potential-ii)
casé + imperfective of wée + -m + takké (imperfect multiword-construction negative potential potential-ii)
perfective + -m + takké (affirmative multiword-construction perfect potential)
casé + perfective of wée + -m + takké (multiword-construction negative perfect potential)
imperfective + object pronoun + tekkék (affirmative conditional conditional-ii multiword-construction present)
perfective + imperfective of sugé + -k (affirmative conditional multiword-construction perfect)
casé + perfective of xaaxé (irrealis multiword-construction)


case

first/third-person singular present subjunctive of casar


case

case (container; box) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

case (piece of work) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

case (piece of work) (when associated with a file detailing the case, e.g. applications or reports) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

the person or client associated with such case (Classifier: 隻／只 c)

Huh! What sort of big case are they [the police] working on?

waa³ haai², gaau² gan² me¹ daai⁶ kei¹ si² aa³?

case (legal proceeding) (Classifier: 單／单 c; 隻／只 c)

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/kʰei̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/


case

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.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

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.

1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 174:

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

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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.

1726, Nathan Bailey, John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum:

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.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

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.

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.

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.

2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:

(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.

“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. […]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

(law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.

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]

1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 292:

(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.

Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.

Latin is a language that employs case.

(grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

Coordinate term: patient

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.

2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:

en:instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms

(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

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

Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.

2011, Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus, page 275:

(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

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.

1867, The Young Ladies' Journal, page 467:

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.

1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1:

→ Swedish: case n

حَالَات

academia: instance or event as a topic of study

kazo

medicine: instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms

From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).


case

Casing upon the Matter.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.

en-verb

case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)

cases (present singular third-person)
casing (participle present)
cased (participle past)
cased (past)


case

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

a case for spectacles; the case of a watch

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

a door case; a window case

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

(printing, historical) 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).

(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.

a single case of Bud Light

A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

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.

1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:

(UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).

عُلَب

box containing a number of identical items of manufacture

դուրճ

(printing, historical) a shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type

դուրճ

typography: the nature of a piece of alphabetic type

From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa, Portuguese caixa.


case

He drew the case eight!

If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.

2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page 21:

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.


case

(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.

1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, →ISBN, page 116:

Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.

2014, Amy Goodman, From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57

(transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.


case

(archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack

Saint Dominican Creole French: caze

Haitian Creole: kay

Borrowed from Latin casa, in the sense of "hut, cabin". The other senses are a semantic loan from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez, which was inherited.


case

Attested since the 15th century (quasy), inherited from Latin quasi (“as if”).


case

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of casar:
third-person singular imperative


case

câse (canonical masculine neuter)
kese (alternative Eastern)

desctree

Dutch: kaas
Afrikaans: kaas
→ Sotho: kase
→ Tswana: kase
Berbice Creole Dutch: kasi
Jersey Dutch: kääs
Negerhollands: kaas, kaes
→ Aukan: kasi
→ Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
→ Peranakan Indonesian: kas
→ Sranan Tongo: kasi
→ Caribbean Hindustani: kási
→ Saramaccan: kási

Limburgish: kieës, kees

From Old Dutch *kāsi, from late Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus.


case

cases (plural)
caas (alternative)
casse (alternative)

English: case

Yola: kaase

→ Irish: cás

From Anglo-Norman casse, from Old French chasse, from Latin capsa.


case

a case study; a case as used in a case study

head

case m or n (definite singular casen or caset, indefinite plural caser, definite plural casene)

casen (definite singular)
caset (definite singular)
caser (indefinite plural)
casene (definite plural)

English case, from Latin cāsus. Doublet of kasus.


case

nn-noun-multi

case m or n (definite singular casen or caset, indefinite plural casar or case, definite plural casane or casa)

casen (definite singular)
caset (definite singular)
casar (indefinite plural)
case (indefinite plural)
casane (definite plural)
casa (definite plural)


case

fro-noun

case oblique singular, m (oblique plural cases, nominative singular cases, nominative plural case)

case oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cases (oblique plural)
cases (nominative singular)
case (nominative plural)


case

(Brazil, marketing) a marketing case study

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from case study.


case

inflection of casă:
genitive/dative singular


case

(countable) a case (instance or event as a topic of study)

case (indefinite nominative singular)
cases (genitive indefinite singular)
caset (definite nominative singular)
casets (definite genitive singular)
casen (indefinite nominative plural)
casens (genitive indefinite plural)
casena (definite nominative plural)
casenas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English case, from Latin cāsus. Doublet of kasus.