Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word case. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in case.
Definitions and meaning of case
case
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /keɪs/
Rhymes: -eɪs
Hyphenation: case
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishcas, from Old Frenchcas(“an event”), from Latincāsus(“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cadō(“to fall, to drop”).
Noun
case (pluralcases)
An actual event, situation, or fact.
(now rare) A given condition or state.
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
(law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
(grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
(archaic) A love affair.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
court case
See also Thesaurus:grammatical case
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Swedish: casen
Translations
Verb
case (third-person singular simple presentcases, present participlecasing, simple past and past participlecased)
(obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.
See also
Appendix:Grammatical cases
References
(love affair):John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishcase, from Old Northern Frenchcasse, (compare Old Frenchchasse(“box, chest, case”)), from Latincapsa(“box, bookcase”), from capiō(“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, andchasse. Compare Spanishcaja, Asturiancaxa.
Noun
case (pluralcases)
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
An enclosing frame or casing.
A suitcase.
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
(printing, historical) 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).
(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
Synonym:carton
(UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
case (not comparable)
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
References
Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Verb
case (third-person singular simple presentcases, present participlecasing, simple past and past participlecased)
(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
(transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
2014, Amy Goodman, From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:
Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
Derived terms
Derived terms
case the deck
case the joint
Translations
References
Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
Further reading
“case”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
case in Britannica Dictionary
case in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
case in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
Huh! What sort of big case are they [the police] working on?
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latincasa, in the sense of "hut, cabin". The other senses are a semantic loan from Spanishcasa. Doublet of chez, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kaz/, /kɑz/
Homophone: cases
Noun
casef (pluralcases)
(archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack
box (on form)
square (on board game)
Derived terms
avoir une case en moins
case départ
case à cocher
manquer une case
retour à la case départ
Descendants
Saint Dominican Creole French: caze
Haitian Creole: kay
Further reading
“case”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
à sec
Galician
Etymology 1
Attested since the 15th century (quasy), inherited from Latinquasi(“as if”).
Alternative forms
caixe
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈkɑsɪ]
Adverb
case
almost
References
“quasy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“case” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“case” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“case” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2
Verb
case
inflection of casar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈka.ze/, (traditional)/ˈka.se/
Rhymes: -aze, (traditional)-ase
Hyphenation: cà‧se
Noun
casef
plural of casa
Anagrams
asce, esca, seca
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈt͡sasɛ/, [ˈt͡sasə]
Noun
case
nominative/accusative plural of cas
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch*kāsi, from late Proto-West Germanic*kāsī, borrowed from Latincāseus.
Noun
câsem or n
cheese
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
kese(eastern)
Descendants
Dutch: kaas
Afrikaans: kaas
→ Sotho: kase
→ Tswana: kase
Berbice Creole Dutch: kasi
Jersey Dutch: kääs
Negerhollands: kaas, kaes
→ Aukan: kasi
→ Papiamentu: keshi(from the diminutive)
→ Peranakan Indonesian: kas
→ Sranan Tongo: kasi
→ Caribbean Hindustani: kási
→ Saramaccan: kási
Limburgish: kieës, kees
Further reading
“case”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “case (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Alternative forms
caas, casse
Etymology
From Anglo-Normancasse, from Old Frenchchasse, from Latincapsa.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkaːs(ə)/, /ˈkas(ə)/
Noun
case (pluralcases)
box, chest, casket, case.
Descendants
English: case
Yola: kaase
References
“cā̆se, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Englishcase, from Latincāsus. Doublet of kasus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɛɪ̯s/, /kæɪ̯s/
Noun
casem or n (definite singularcasenorcaset, indefinite pluralcaser, definite pluralcasene)
a case study; a case as used in a case study
References
“case” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
“case_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Englishcase, from Latincāsus. Doublet of kasus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɛɪ̯s/, /kæɪ̯s/
Noun
casem or n (definite singularcasenorcaset, indefinite pluralcasarorcase, definite pluralcasaneorcasa)
a case study; a case as used in a case study
Synonyms:døme, eksempel
References
“case” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Noun
caseoblique singular, m (oblique pluralcases, nominative singularcases, nominative pluralcase)
(grammar)case
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: ca‧se
Rhymes: -azi, -azɨ
Verb
case
inflection of casar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Noun
case
inflection of casă:
plural
genitive/dative singular
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkase/[ˈka.se]
Rhymes: -ase
Syllabification: ca‧se
Verb
case
inflection of casar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishcase, from Latincāsus. Doublet of kasus.
Noun
casen
(countable) a case(instance or event as a topic of study)