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case
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
- Hyphenation: case
Etymology 1
Middle English cas, from Old French cas (“an event”), from Latin c?sus (“a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”), perfect passive participle of cad? (“to fall, to drop”).
Noun
case (plural cases)
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- (now rare) A given condition or state.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.
- 1726, Nathan Bailey, John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum
- Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
- Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
(16) (a) ? I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) ? I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from:
(17) ? I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf.
(18) ? I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
- Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from:
- (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.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- court case
- See also Thesaurus:grammatical case
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
- (obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases
See also
- Appendix:Grammatical cases
References
- case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English cas, from Old Northern French casse, (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capi? (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash.
Noun
case (plural cases)
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 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
Hyponyms
Translations
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Adjective
case (not comparable)
- (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
- 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour (page 21)
- If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
- 2006, David Apostolico, Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour (page 21)
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN
Verb
case (third-person singular simple present cases, present participle casing, simple past and past participle cased)
- (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.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ?ISBN, page 116:
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977, Michael Innes, The Gay Phoenix, ?ISBN, page 116:
Translations
Derived terms
- case the deck
Anagrams
- ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???se/
Verb
casé
- (transitive) hit
Conjugation
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 263
Asturian
Verb
case
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of casar
Chinese
Alternative forms
- K?
Etymology
Borrowed from English case.
Pronunciation
Noun
case
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) case (clarification of this definition is needed)
- 2015, ???, ????????? II??????????
- ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, trad.]
- ni1 go3 hou2 do1 kei1 si2 gaa3. ni1 jat1 go3, zau6 hai6 zoeng1 gwok3 wing4, jau5 gam2 go3 kei1 si2 laa1. [Jyutping]
- That kind of case happens often. It happened with Leslie Cheung.
????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, simp.]
- 2015, ???, ????????? II??????????
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin casa, in the sense of "hut, cabin". The other senses are a semantic loan from Spanish casa. Doublet of chez, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?z/
- Homophone: cases
Noun
case f (plural cases)
- (archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack
- box (on form)
- square (on board game)
Derived terms
- case départ
- case à cocher
Further reading
- “case” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- à sec
Galician
Alternative forms
- caixe
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century (quasy), from Latin quasi (“as if”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?s?]
Adverb
case
- almost
References
- “quasy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “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.
Italian
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca?se
Noun
case f
- plural of casa
Anagrams
- asce, esca, seca
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?sas?/, [?t?sas?]
Noun
case
- nominative/accusative plural of cas
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *k?si, from late Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus.
Noun
câse m or n
- cheese
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- kese (eastern)
Descendants
- Dutch: kaas
- Afrikaans: kaas
- ? Sotho: kase
- ? Tswana: kase
- ? Papiamentu: keshi (from the diminutive)
- ? Sranan Tongo: kasi
- Afrikaans: kaas
- 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
Old French
Noun
case m (oblique plural cases, nominative singular cases, nominative plural case)
- (grammar) case
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ca?se
- Rhymes: -azi
Verb
case
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of casar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of casar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of casar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of casar
Romanian
Noun
case
- plural of cas?
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kase/, [?ka.se]
Verb
case
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of casar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of casar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of casar.
Venetian
Noun
case
- plural of casa
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organ
English
Etymology
From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???.??n/
- Homophone: Oregon (one pronunciation)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???.??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)??n
- Hyphenation: or?gan
Noun
organ (plural organs)
- A larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
- (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
- (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
- An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
- Short for organ pipe cactus.
- government organization; agency; authority
- (slang) The penis.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:organ.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Korean: ??? (oreugan)
- ? Maori: ?kana
- ? Vietnamese: oóc-gan
Translations
Further reading
- organ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- organ in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
organ (third-person singular simple present organs, present participle organing, simple past and past participle organed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
- 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses
- Thou art elemented and organ'd for other apprehensions.
- 1681, Thomas Manningham, Two Discourses
Anagrams
- Angor, Garon, Goran, Grano, Ongar, Ragon, Rogan, Ronga, angor, argon, groan, nagor, orang, rag on, rango
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch orgaan, from Middle Dutch organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??r?an]
- Hyphenation: or?gan
Noun
organ
- organ:
- (biology) a larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
- (music) a musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
- an official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
- mouthpiece, a spokesperson or medium aligned with an organisation.
Related terms
Further reading
- “organ” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Noun
organ
- Alternative form of organe
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin organum, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon),
Noun
organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ or organer, definite plural organa or organene)
- (anatomy, biology) an organ
- an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
- a body (e.g. an advisory body)
Derived terms
- kjønnsorgan
See also
- orgel (musical instrument)
References
- “organ” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), via Latin organum
Noun
organ n (definite singular organet, indefinite plural organ, definite plural organa)
- (anatomy, biology) an organ
- an organ (publication which represents an organisation)
- a body (e.g. an advisory body)
Derived terms
- kjønnsorgan
See also
- orgel (musical instrument)
References
- “organ” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??r.?an/
Noun
organ m inan
- organ, part of an organism
- (by extension) unit of government dedicated to a specific function
- (politics) organ, official publication of a political organization
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
From Byzantine Greek ??????? (órganos), from Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon), partly through the intermediate of Slavic *or?gan?. Some senses also based on French orgue (cf. org?), Italian organum, Italian organo.
Noun
organ n (plural organe)
- organ (part of organism)
- (archaic) organ (musical instrument)
Declension
Synonyms
- (musical instrument): org?
See also
- m?dular
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?a?n/
- Hyphenation: or?gan
Noun
òrg?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- organ (part of an organism)
Declension
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
organ n
- (anatomy) an organ (a part of the body)
- (dated) a voice (of a singer or actor)
- Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst
- She combined with excellent theatrical looks a high degree of intelligence, an extraordinary voice and a splendid mastery of declamation
- Hon förenade med ett utmärkt teateryttre en hög grad af intelligens, en ypperlig organ och en förträfflig deklamationskonst
- an organ; a newspaper (of an organization, i.e. its voice)
Declension
Related terms
Anagrams
- argon
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