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18 Definitions of: case

1. noun, a single instance, occurrence, or example of something
2. noun, an instance of disease, injury, hardship, etc
3. noun, a question or matter for discussion
4. noun, a specific condition or state of affairs; situation
5. noun, a set of arguments supporting a particular action, cause, etc
6. noun, a) a person attended or served by a doctor, social worker, solicitor, etc; patient or client b) (as modifier)
7. noun, a) an action or suit at law or something that forms sufficient grounds for bringing an action b) the evidence offered in court to support a claim
8. noun, grammar a) a set of grammatical categories of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, marked by inflection in some languages, indicating the relation of the noun, adjective, or pronoun to other words in the sentence b) any one of these categories
9. noun, a person in or regarded as being in a specified condition
10. noun, a person of a specified character (esp in the phrase a hard case)
11. noun, an odd person; eccentric
12. noun, love or infatuation
13. noun, short for case shot. See canister
14. noun, as the case may be according to the circumstances
15. noun, in any case no matter what; anyhow
16. noun, in case a) in order to allow for eventualities b) in order to allow for the possibility that c) if
17. noun, in case of in the event of
18. noun, in no case under no circumstances
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1. noun, a) a container, such as a box or chest b) (in combination)
2. noun, an outer cover or sheath, esp for a watch
3. noun, a receptacle and its contents
4. noun, a pair or brace, esp of pistols
5. noun, architect. another word for casing
6. noun, a completed cover ready to be fastened to a book to form its binding
7. noun, printing a tray divided into many compartments in which a compositor keeps individual metal types of a particular size and style. Cases were originally used in pairs, one (the upper case) for capitals, the other (the lower case) for small letters
8. noun, metallurgy the surface of a piece of steel that has been case-hardened
9. verb, to put into or cover with a case
10. verb, slang to inspect carefully (esp a place to be robbed)
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1. noun, a woman's small bag or hand case used to carry cosmetics, etc
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Synonyms:	contingency, situation, event, state, position, condition, context, dilemma, plight, predicament	And more...

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