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～ the actual state of things; "that was not the case"
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～ a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
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～ a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly"
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～ 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"
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～ (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters"
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～ the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"
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～ a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters"
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～ the quantity contained in a case
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～ 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"
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～ a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
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～ a specific size and style of type within a type family
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～ 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"
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～ a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
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～ a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
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～ an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
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～ bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
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～ nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
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～ 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"
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～ the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case"
case agreement
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～ agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction