Definitions for "Case"
One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
Case shows the grammatical relation of inflected forms such as nouns and pronouns to other words (nominative, possessive, objective cases).
a form of a noun (and any agreeing adjective) that indicates by its ending how the word functions grammatically in the sentence. Latin has six cases (see individual definitions): nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative. English has only two cases: nominative (used for the subject of a sentence) and objective (used for everything else).
Case determines whether letters are capital (uppercase) or non-capital (lowercase.) This option allows you to change the case of a selected letter, letters, or text.
The format of a letter. It can be uppercase (capitalized) or lowercase (not capitalized).
Case refers to whether letters are capitalized. A capitalized letter is an uppercase letter, and an uncapitalized letter is a lowercase letter.
An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
Boards, spine and cover made separately from the text block.
Keywords:  i've, deck, rank, last, river
The last or fourth card of a rank when the rest of the cards are in play. If there were three cards of the same rank on the board then the fourth card would be referred to as the "case" card of that rank.
The last card of a certain rank in the deck. For example, you might have a pair of aces and your opponent has an ace. The next ace to come out (the last one unless it's a crooked deck) is the case ace.
The last remaining card of a certain rank. If there are three Aces on the board, the remaining Ace is the "case ace".
A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
A proceeding, act, suit, or controversy at law.
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"
Keywords:  ferrous, harder, interior, alloy, core
In a ferrous metal, the outer portion that has been made harder than the interior, or core.
The surface layer of an iron-base alloy which has been suitably altered in composition and can be made substantially harder than the interior or core by heat treatment.
In a ferrous alloy, the surface layer that has been made sub?stantially harder than the interior or core by a process of case hardening.
The part of a cartridge that holds the other components. Often made if brass (and called brass), silver plated, or aluminum.
The metal housing of a watch's parts. Stainless steel is the most typical metal used but titanium, gold, silver, and platinum can also be used. Less expensive watches are usually made of brass and plated with gold or silver.
Refers to cartridge case or shotshell case. Shortened through common usage to simply “case.
"CASE means Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchanges. CASE is the only registered Stock Exchange in Egypt. CASE is one entity with two locations: Cairo and Alexandria. Alexandria Exchange is considered a remote trading floor to the main floor in Cairo. Both Cairo and Alexandria Exchanges use the same software, databases and servers. Both locations are managed by the same Chairman and Board of Directors. The Chairman is appointed by the Prime Minister for a three years period that is renewable. Sixty percent of the board members are elected from market participants (brokerage firms, fund management companies, investment banks etc.) and the remaining forty percent are appointed by the following entities: one from the Capital Market Authority, one from the Central Bank of Egypt and two from the Syndicate of Banks."
Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges
Keywords:  shock, damp, dust, bezel, enclose
Sturdy metal "envelope" which encloses and portects watch movement. Usually consists of two parts: top (bezel) and back.
The metal housing of a watch's parts, including movement, dial and crystal.
The shell that houses the moving parts of the watch. It is always made of a durable material and is often waterproofed to some degree.
Computer-Assisted Systems Engineering
Co-operative Award in Science and Engineering (Studentships)
Computer Added Software Engineering.
A term used to denote a model experiment, including one initial run and as many continuation runs as required to conclude the experiment. A model case is cataloged using the CASEID namelist variable. By default the caseid is included in the output filenames and mass store archive path.
a contextualized piece of knowledge representing an experience
A term used to denote a model experiment, including one initial run and as many continuation runs as required to conclude the experiment. A model case is cataloged using the CASEID namelist variable, which appears in word 1 of the character (second) history file header record.
A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
In epidemiology, a person in the population or study group identified as having the particular disease, health disorder, or condition under investigation. See also index case.
a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
In the cigar production process, to case means to slightly moisten the aged tobacco. Casing the aged tobacco makes it easier for hand rollers to work with.
In the cigar production process, workers "case," or slightly moisten, aged tobacco so that it will be easy for hand rollers to work with.
personal difficulties, the "reactive mind" and the "implants" and "body thetans" of OT levels.
a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters"
a story based on "real world" or actual events told with a definite educational purpose in mind
One "case" in a survey is usually one questionnaire, or one respondent. In computer terms, this is often one "record".
an individual interview that links a respondent to the data gathered
The unit of analysis in a particular data file. Can be an individual respondent to a questionnaire, a customer, or an industry. In the Roper Reports, each case is an interview respondent.
a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
a depiction of a real-world business problem, which requires a solution
a description of an actual situation, commonly involving a decision, a challenge, an opportunity, a problem or an issue faced by a person (or persons) in an organization
a call (or an electronic inquiry) which requires the services of a JAN consultant
an unprecedented admission," said Siegel Vann, adding that she is encouraged that the government will investigate those who have long impeded the inquiry's resolution
the common information associated with a particular deal between the supplier and the buyer. Depending on the progress of a deal, a case could represent either an inquiry, or an order.
Keywords:  smith, famous, smth, yesterday, sen
1. A legal action litigated between two opposing parties (i.e. Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones). The initial trial in front of a judge or jury, and all subsequent appeals, including an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if it comes to that, are considered to be part of the case Smth vs. Jones. 2. An opinion written by a judge and the facts and explanations that accompany the opinion and explain how it was reached are also considered a case. The judge's written opinion for the case of Smith vs. Jones may also be used as precedent in later cases.
an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
a famous example, but it's also obvious to me that Sen
That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
a carefully written description of an actual situation
an account or description of a situation or sequence of events confronting an individual, a group of individuals, or an organization
a partial, historical, clinical study of a situation which has confronted a practicing administrator or managerial group
Keywords:  father, alleged, custodial, fcr, ssn
A non-custodial parent, whether mother or father, or alleged father, a custodial party, and a dependent child or children. The custodial party may be one of the child's parents or other relative or caretaker including foster care, if both parents are absent and liable or potentially liable for the support of the children, each parent is considered a separate case.
With respect to the Federal Offset Program, 'case' refers to a unique state, SSN and case type combination. A case at the state level refers to a Child Support Enforcement Case, or a Non IV-D Support Order that is registered in the Federal Case Registry (FCR) with at least one custodial party (CP), non-custodial parent (NCP), or putative father (PF).
A IV-D case consists of a client, a responsible relative or alleged father, and all their children in common.
CASE is an umbrella term for a collection of tools and techniques which are said by their distributors to promise revolutionary gains in analyst and programmer productivity. The two prominent delivered technologies are application generators and PC-based workstations that provide graphics-oriented automation of the front end of the development process.
a revolutionary product
Generic term for tools and techniques that are said to offer major productivity gains for analysts and programmers.
Keywords:  latch, trifold, mechanism, snap, lock
The housing containing the mechanism.
That part of a lock or latch containing the mechanism.
a trifold design with a snap latch
Keywords:  endof, rangeof, endcase, dup, stack
a closed stack area in the basement of the Library. It contains some older issues of print periodicals, items too large or too small to fit on standard library shelving, and material too valuable or fragile to be in the main collection. Items that are likely to be vandalized because of their subject content are sometimes placed in the CASE, too. Items in the CASE have the word CASE at the beginning of their call numbers. They are paged by Circulation desk staff on request.
CASE is a Forth construct for selecting between several actions based on integer value. It is used as follows: : EXAMPLE ( N -- ) CASE 0 OF ." None at all! " ENDOF " Still checking... " 1 OF ." Only one " ENDOF 13 19 RANGEOF ." In the teens!" ENDOF dup 5,000 ?OF ." Lots and lots!" ENDOF ." Unexpected number = " DUP . CR ENDCASE ( ENDCASE does a DROP ) ; When executed, EXAMPLE will check the top number on the stack against each of the numbers before each of the "OF"'s. If it matches, it will drop the number that was being checked then execute the program after the OF up to the ENDOF , then jump to the code after the ENDCASE . if the number does not match, it skips to the code after the ENDOF , leaving the number still on the stack. Similar to switch() in 'C'. Related Words: OF ?OF RANGEOF ENDCASE ENDOF ELSE
Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
The term is referred to what in indeterministic manner and unforeseeably is upstream of an happening for which identifying a cause is not possible. It can also be considered as what which is to the origin of the universe, of the life and more in general of the being. In the material reality which concerns us "by chance" we signify the turning out of the action of coinciding but disconnected causes between them. We refer to it in this meaning when the laws determining the ties of cause/effect or the connection of the events according to statistical princes and previsional are suspended or interrupted. The case is what which denies the happening of the reasonable probability.
Keywords:  piano, wallboard, grand, shelf, cabinet
All exterior parts of the piano - top, sides, arms, music shelf, wallboard, etc. - taken as a whole.
The wooden cabinet of a grand piano, including the rim and structural framework.
A large carton of match books containing 50 caddies of 20-stick or 30-stick match books (total of 2500 match books). Also can pertain to matchboxes. Quantities will vary according to the matchbox size and manufacturer.
executes commands given for first pattern that match expr. Patterns can contain filename expansion wildcards. case expr in pattern1) commands ;; pattern2) commands ;; esac
a genuine Krusell creation
a triple layer insulated and reinforced shell covered in genuine natural leather with a non-slip base
Keywords:  agatha, christie, mystery
an Agatha Christie mystery
A person who has a clinically compatible illness that is laboratory confirmed.
A person who meets both the clinical criteria for severe respiratory illness and the epidemiological criteria for likely exposure to SARS-CoV. GLOSSARY
A reported work injury or illness, which has been assembled and assigned a case number (indexed) by an indexing unit of the WCB.
An operand of the BMS DFHMDF macro indicating that the field is to be coverted to upper case if KATAKANA is also specified.
compelling story about your organization, i.e., why it exists, what you are doing to meet critical needs of your community, reasons why your organization warrants generous charitable support; "No Case, No Cash!"
Carefully prepared reasons why a charitable institution merits support (in the context of the 'case bigger than the institution'), including its resources, its potential for greater service, its needs, and its future plans.
In the policy debate form of debate competition, the case is the advocacy established by the affirmative in the First affirmative constructive speech, intended to support the affirmative plan. The case is generally presented as a single, pre-scripted speech with a coherent story. It is generally accepted that the case is supposed to be the center of any given debate.
Keywords:  crusoe, celeron, cmos, cps
Celeron CMOS CPS Crusoe
a perfect carrying solution for your PDA
a perfect compliment to any PDA
Tangency or Case refers to the location or locations that a projection surface touches or cuts through the globe. There are two types of tangency: the Tangent Case and the Secant Case.With the tangent (simple) case, the projection surface (azimuthal plane, cylindrical or conic surface) touches the globe at one point or along one line.In secant case, the projection surface cuts through the globe to touch the surface at two lines.
One or more arguments sufficient to support a proposition.
a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly"
An way of remembering the components of a case line. - the case statement - the arguments - the strategy - the process of exposing (clash and case analysis)
Keywords:  morgam, chd, subsample, cohort, exact
A member of a MORGAM cohort who had an event of interest during the follow-up. The main broad categories of events in MORGAM are CHD events, strokes and deaths, but the exact definition needs to specified separately for each data analysis. See also " Selection of cases and cohort subsample".
a felony if the punishment can include state prison
a record of an inmate who served a period of time in prison
Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise
Keywords:  woodard, usher, def, singer, soul
Case Woodard was born in New York City and was signed to Def Soul records. He first started working in the R&B industry as a backup singer, working with big name R&B artists like Usher.
Keywords:  leapfrogged, cosmetic
a cosmetic can be leapfrogged
A company that sold Unimog 406's in the U.S.A. The Unimogs were usually orange, with the short wheel base, and the low speed axles. Many options were available with these Unimogs, such as backhoes, and three-point hitches.
a referral that is found to warrant further examination
The entire "file" that is kept for a juvenile, including: all referrals, charges, motions, probation episodes, supervision episodes, placements, etc.
A programming construct in which a complex set of decisions is based on a single item. cathode-ray tube monitor (CRT) The large monitor connected to a desktop computer. The monitor's vacuum tube uses an electron gun to emit a beam of electrons that illuminates phosphorus on-screen as the beam sweeps across the screen repeatedly.
a description of such a real-life situation on the basis of the presentations of actions of one or more persons, and often the prime actor faces the challenge to make an important decision
a very important decision
Keywords:  rob, decent, connotation, nice, cutter
Management. A service that assists clients to obtain and coordinate community resources such as income assistance, education, housing, medical care, treatment, vocational preparation, and recreation.
n. the housing or body of a lock
look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed"
Campaign for Advancement of State Education
Campaign for State educatio
Keywords:  hairier, bit
a bit hairier than that
Keywords:  bottles, wine
24 bottles
12 (750 ml) bottles of wine.
Keywords:  rrt, novo, review, visas, legislation
It is the RRT's practice to count multiple applications for review as a single case where the legislation provides that the applications for review can be handled together, usually where members of a family unit have applied for the grant of visas at the same time.
a question of law which is reviewed de novo
structure incorporating, facsimiles, beings, intentions, connections etc.-it's a misnomer to tell a 'Clear' that he's 'keyed-in' if there's some kind of restimulation going on. It would be more appropriate to say that some of his case is keyed-in
Keywords:  instanceof, enum, try, story, blow
enum instanceof return try
a blow by blow story of one executive trying to turn an organization around
Keywords:  clamshell, style
a clamshell style with a
Council for Advancement & Support of Education
The combination of reasons advanced in justification of an appeal for support, with emphasis on services past, present and potential. One of the three basic pedestals on which fund-raising success must rest, the others being leadership and fields of support.
a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
Keywords:  screws, corner, rack, fasteners, rail
Corners 19 Racks Rack Rail Replacement Case Parts Case Handles 4 Post Racks Rack Screws & Fasteners
The plastic shell that contains the inner workings of the tape. Consists of the top (has the windows), the bottom (the side opposite the top), and the door. It's held together by five screws: one near each corner, and one near the middle.
Surface of steel that has a different composition than the original makeup resulting from the application at elevated temperatures of carbon, nitrogen or another element.
The surface layer of a steel whose composition has been changed by the addition of carbon. nitrogen, or other material at high temperature.
CISC Coding Conventions connection pool CurrCon
an unnecessary hurdle that diverts field resources from other enforcement activities
B/D] ignores the case of all characters entered unless the characters constitute text to be used for titling, or to be printed out directly.
closely concept constitute corollary
Copy And Steal Everything: Means copying layouts. Also called Scraplifting.
a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
A timber container constructed with close boarded faces.
Keywords:  declension, below, see
See declension below.
Keywords:  pack, delicate, valuable, bulk, mirrors
A filled container, or could be used to describe a bulk pack.
A wooden case (solid) made specifically for packing mirrors, pictures, marble or other valuable delicate items (sometimes referred to as an Internal case).
a collection of possibly correlated observations, such as several variables assessed on an individual, or on both members of a twin pair, or on a whole family
a grouping of a number of observations (themes) in a descriptive way that provides a hint of explanation of the grouped observations
a little different because due to no testing and the whole protected sex/unprotected sex
a little noisy
A patient identified as having an infection
a collection of images and information corresponding to one mammography exam of one patient
Keywords:  strictfp, volatile, final, long
final long strictfp volatile
Keywords:  entertainer
a ok entertainer
Keywords:  want, tarts, friends, pop, lot
a must if you want your player to keep looking at its best
an entity from which you want to derive patterns
a whole lot of Pop-Tarts, so you might want to share them with your friends at school
a publishing industry showing decreasing profitability, with the rise of celebrity author advances and powerful retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon
Keywords:  treo, owner, 'must, have
a 'must have' for any Treo owner
Statement that lists a condition for executing code within a switch statement.
A Java keyword that defines a group of statements to begin executing if a value specified matches the value defined by a preceding switch keyword.
Colorado Association for School Executives
A case of beer that needs to be distributed among the other skydivers after having performed some action that calls for a case. Almost anything, really. Don't like beer? It doesn't matter, caseing is still an important part of the skydiving culture.
a Project Profile Form that connects your ideas to Acmec
Keywords:  hypothetical, propose
To propose hypothetical cases.
a way of bringing the real world into a classroom so that students can "practice" on actual or realistic issues and incidences under the guidance of the teacher
Citizenship And Service Education
Cognitive Acceleration in Science Education
Usually made of metal, and often coated with a non-slip material, the case protects the internal circuitry of a microphone and acts as (you guessed it) a handle.
A person or group of persons who receives benefits under a specified benefit program. For example, a TANF case refers to all persons who receive TANF under the same identification number. A food stamp (FS) case refers to all people who receive FS under the same identification number. Use of the word case is the same as benefit unit (but not the same as filing unit).
Case number is assigned as an identifier by the County from which an offender is committed, and is included on the judgment and conviction documents.
Keywords:  we've, aware, forces, good, powerful
a really good example of how powerful these forces are, and how we've got to be aware of it
Keywords:  impossibility, virtual
a "virtual impossibility," he said
Comprehensive Assessment of the Scholarship of Engagement
Framework that goes around a door or window (all symmetrical cases are in the Chair Rail section).
Pieces that go around doors.
Keywords:  analyses, unit
a unit of analyses
Keywords:  plaster, moulding, shallow, frame, wide
a plaster frame to keep various parts of a mould in position - casement: a wide, shallow moulding.
Keywords:  fissure, admits, small, workings, water
A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Keywords:  abrupt, fashion, wake, land, right
To "case" the wake means to land right on top of the wake in an abrupt fashion.
Keywords:  literary, distinct, form
a distinct literary form
A container used in commercial practice for packaging eggs. The standard sized case will hold 30-dozen of eggs, however, case sizes range from 12-dozen to 40 dozen units.
Keywords:  splash, gift, idea, someone, good
a good gift idea for someone that likes a splash
Keywords:  lcd, scratched, easily, screen
a must as the LCD screen can easily be scratched
management In the context of the Community Care for the Elderly Program, the term "case management" refers to a client-centered series of activities which includes planning, arrangement for, and coordination of appropriate community-based services for an eligible client.
a pivotal purchase item for a successful performance enhanced PC
the actual state of things; "that was not the case"
a component of variation in a thing
Where you dispute the meaning of the tax legislation, the matter can be resolved in the law courts. The outcome is then known as a tax case.
Keywords:  pending, below, detailed, request, user
a pending request from one user to another, as will be detailed below
Keywords:  wooden, enclosure, pipes, blend, sound
a wooden enclosure around the pipes which helps to blend and project the sound
See record. Terminology usually associated with statistical analysis.
Keywords:  contingency, fee
a contingency fee
a food handler (as determined by public health staff)
Keywords:  crime, district, attorney, facts, court
a set of facts about a crime that is referred to a district attorney for filing with a court
Keywords:  exactly, belong, job, together, group
Cases are used to group jobs together, each job must belong to exactly one case.
Group, named insured, policyholder.
Keywords:  dispute, legal
A legal dispute.
A single person, thing, or event for which attributes have been or will be observed. FOR EXAMPLE, a case would be one student if the sample to be studied were 250 high school students.
a collection of knowledge concerning the specific topic in hand
Keywords:  evidence, great, piece
a great piece of evidence
Keywords:  choice, variables, complete, set
a choice from the complete set of variables
Keywords:  population, basic, unit
a basic unit in the population e
Keywords:  equity, damages
damages equity
Keywords:  switch, construct
as in the C switch construct.
Keywords:  draw, straight, inside, another, name
Another name for an inside straight draw.
Keywords:  scripts, identify, group, unit
a unit used to identify a group of scripts
Keywords:  assistance, request, issue, single
a request for assistance on a single issue
Keywords:  entity, single, records, set, refer
a set of records which all refer to one single entity
All the data collected about a specific transaction or related set of values.