case
Situation or box
Case is really two words with a single spelling, a fact that partly explains its high frequency.
One kind of case is a physical object that encloses or contains something; the other case is abstract and stands for a set of circumstances, a situation requiring action, or a matter in a court of law.
The relatively infrequent verb case is derived from the first meaning.
The second kind of case is frequently used idiomatically in the phrase in case.
Civil court proceeding
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- defendantParty facing charges
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
testimony · verdict · judge · jury · litigation · prosecution · defense · attorney
Lidded storage container
- crateContainer for transport
- trunkMain stem or storage
- chestRibcage region or strongbox
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
bin · casket · coffer · holder · canister · cartridge · capsule · vessel
Case marking sentence subjects
- accusativeCase for direct objects
- genitiveCase expressing ownership
- dativeCase showing indirect object
- ablativeRemoving by erosion
vocative · locative · instrumental · declension · inflection · conjugation · morphology · syntax
Representative case shown
- instanceSingle occurrence of something
- situationState of affairs
- circumstanceCondition affecting an event
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
occurrence · incident · event · phenomenon · episode · affair · experience · happening
Hard outer covering
Column of vertebrae
lawsuit
Civil court proceeding
evidence · testimony · verdict · judge · jury · litigation · prosecution · defense · attorney · settlement
box
Lidded storage container
cabinet · bin · casket · coffer · holder · canister · cartridge · capsule · vessel · jar
nominative
Case marking sentence subjects
- accusativeCase for direct objects
- genitiveCase expressing ownership
- dativeCase showing indirect object
ablative · vocative · locative · instrumental · declension · inflection · conjugation · morphology · syntax · oblique
example
Representative case shown
- instanceSingle occurrence of something
- situationState of affairs
- circumstanceCondition affecting an event
scenario · occurrence · incident · event · phenomenon · episode · affair · experience · happening · matter
shell
Hard outer covering
spine
Column of vertebrae
patient
Able to wait calmly
treatment · illness · disease · infection · chronic · acute · pathology · clinical · casefile
uppercase
Capital letter form
- crime investigationdetective, whodunit, investigation, detectives, investigator
- legallawyer, judge, jury, trial, verdict
- legal systemattorney, lawyers, legal precedents, trial records, attorneys
- mystery fictionwhodunit, whodunnit, sleuth, murder mystery, detective novel
- computer hardwareCPU, GPU, motherboard, RAM, hard drive
- Computer PartsRAM, GPU, CPU, motherboard, processor
casegeneralization
Deriving principles from examples
principle · universality · rule · abstraction · law
casetheory
Explanatory set of principles
hypothesis · conjecture · supposition · speculation · fancy
- in caseAs a contingency
- just in caseFor possible need
- case closedMatter finally resolved
- pencil caseContainer for writing implements
- basket casePerson unable to function
- phone caseProtective mobile accessory
casual, occasion, suitcase, cascade, casing, showcase, cases, bookcase, casualty