Definition of Case

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Definition of Case

Case

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.

To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.

The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.

One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.

To propose hypothetical cases.

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Case Quotations

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx

Case Translations

case in Afrikaans is saak, ding
case in Dutch is affaire, zaak, aangelegenheid, ding
case in Finnish is asia
case in Italian is tasca, valigia, affare, astuccio, decadimento
case in Latin is theca, causa
case in Norwegian is anliggende
case in Portuguese is caso, assunto
case in Spanish is baul, particular, asunto, caso, bolsillo

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