case
/keɪs/
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.