case

/keɪs/

noun

Meaning

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

Meaning