case

noun · verb · adjectiveA1

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Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
cases
  1. 1.

    An actual event, situation, or fact.

    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]

    Conditioning would require exposition to any sentence before being uttered, which isn’t the case.

  2. 2.

    (archaic)(now rare) A given condition or state.

  3. 3.

    A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.

    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.

  4. 4.

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

    The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

  5. 5.

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

  6. 6.

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

    The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.

    Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

  7. 7.

    (uncountable)(grammar, uncountable) 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.

  8. 8.

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

    There were another five cases reported overnight.

  9. 9.

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

  10. 10.

    (archaic)A love affair.

  11. 11.

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

  12. 12.

    A box, sheath, or covering generally.

    a case for spectacles; the case of a watch

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
cases
V_ing/Gerund
casing
V_ed/pp
cased
  1. 1.

    (intransitive, obsolete)To propose hypothetical cases.

  2. 2.

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

  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

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

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

Tính từ

adjective
  1. 1.

    (not comparable, slang)(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.

    He drew the case eight!

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

cartonbefallgrammatical case

Trái nghĩa

noncase

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (an event), from Latin cāsus, perfect passive participle of cadō (to fall, to drop).

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