English Dictionary

case

/keɪs/

noun

An actual event, situation, or fact. / (now rare) A given condition or state. / A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession. / (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.

The court will hear the case tomorrow.

意味（1）

An actual event, situation, or fact.

For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.

意味（2）

(now rare) A given condition or state.

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

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

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

The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

意味（5）

(law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

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. […]

意味（6）

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

The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object. Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

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

There were another five cases reported overnight.

意味（9）

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

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