case

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An actual event, situation, or fact.
    — For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
  2. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
  3. A given condition or state. archaic
    — Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face.
  4. A box, sheath, or covering generally.
    — a case for spectacles; the case of a watch
  5. A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
    — It was one of the detective's easiest cases.
  6. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
  7. An instance or event as a topic of study.
    — The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
  8. An enclosing frame or casing.
    — a door case; a window case
  9. A suitcase.
  10. A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
    — “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. […]”
  11. A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
    — The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.
  12. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
  13. Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. uncountable
    — Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
  14. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
  15. An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
    — There were another five cases reported overnight.
  16. A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces). historical
  17. 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.
  18. The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter. broadly
  19. A love affair. archaic
    — Poor fellow, just as I thought! It's a case with him, anybody can see that. He is thinking about Christine, for a certainty. Lovers always take to stargazing and moonlight dreaming — it's part of their complaint.
  20. Four of a kind. slang
  21. A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces. US
  22. A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
  23. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
  24. A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
    — a single case of Bud Light
  25. A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin). UK,obsolete,slang
    — The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
动词 v.
  1. To propose hypothetical cases. intransitive,obsolete
    — Casing upon the Matter.
  2. To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. transitive
  3. To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. transitive
    — The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
  4. To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery. informal,transitive
    — You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
形容词 adj.
  1. The last remaining card of a particular rank. not-comparable,slang
    — He drew the case eight!

词形变化

cases plural cases present,singular,third-person casing participle,present cased participle,past cased past cases plural cases present,singular,third-person casing participle,present cased participle,past cased past

词汇关系

近义词
befall grammatical case
下位词
court case
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin cāsus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō (“to fall, to drop”).
词源 2
From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa, Portuguese caixa.
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