different between case vs rim

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)

1. An actual event, situation, or fact.
2. (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.

3. A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
4. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
6. (law) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
7. (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]

8. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

9. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

10. (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)

1. (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)

2. A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
3. A box, sheath, or covering generally.

4. A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
5. An enclosing frame or casing.

6. A suitcase.
7. A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
8. The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
9. (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).
10. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
11. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
12. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
13. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

14. A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
15. 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)

1. (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.

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)

1. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
2. (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.

3. (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.

Translations

Derived terms

• case the deck

Anagrams

• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, Ceas, ESCA, SCEA, aces, aesc, esca, æsc

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???se/

Verb

casé

1. (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

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of casar

Chinese

Alternative forms

• K?

Etymology

Borrowed from English case.

Pronunciation

Noun

case

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) case (clarification of this definition is needed)
   • 2015, ???, ????????? II??????????

     ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ????case???????????????case?? [Cantonese, simp.]

     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.

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)

1. (archaic, rare or regional) hut, cabin, shack
2. box (on form)
3. 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

1. 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

1. plural of casa

Anagrams

• asce, esca, seca

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sas?/, [?t?sas?]

Noun

case

1. 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

1. 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
• 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)

1. (grammar) case

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?se
• Rhymes: -azi

Verb

case

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of casar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of casar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of casar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of casar

Romanian

Noun

case

1. plural of cas?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kase/, [?ka.se]

Verb

case

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of casar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of casar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of casar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of casar.

Venetian

Noun

case

1. plural of casa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *rem?- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

Noun

rim (plural rims)

1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
2. (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
3. (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
   • 2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing (page 130)

     A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]

   • 2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing (page 7)

     On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.

Derived terms

• Pacific Rim

Translations

See also

• (wheel rim): mag wheel, alloy wheel

Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed) (transitive)

1. To form a rim on.
2. (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.

3. (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English r?oma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reum?.

Noun

rim (plural rims)

1. (Britain dialectal) A membrane.
2. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.

Etymology 3

From a variation of ream.

Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)

1. (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.
   • 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216

     When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

Translations

Anagrams

• IRM, MIR, MRI, Mir, RMI, miR, mir

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hr?m?.

Noun

rim c (singular definite rimen, not used in plural form)

1. hoarfrost, rime

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse rím, from Middle Low German rim, from French rime (“rhyme”).

Noun

rim n (singular definite rimet, plural indefinite rim)

1. rhyme

Inflection

Further reading

• rim on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 3

See rime.

Verb

rim

1. imperative of rime

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?m]
• Hyphenation: rim

Etymology 1

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”), from Arabic ???????? (rizma, “bundle”).

Noun

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. ream, a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

Etymology 2

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old Dutch *riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reum?.

Noun

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. (colloquial) leather belt.

Further reading

• “rim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rim/

Noun

rim

1. smell
2. odour

Adverb

rim

1. hard

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• rimb

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (rum?). For rimb, compare the probably related Old Armenian ????? (?umb).

Noun

r?im ?

1. spear, lance, javelin
2. unit of measure the length of a spear

Descendants

• ? Armenian: ??? (??m) (Van, Moks, Shatakh)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima or rimene)

1. a rhyme

Derived terms

• barnerim

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím

Noun

rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

Derived terms

• rimfrost

References

• “rim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?m/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím, from Old French rime.

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima)

1. a rhyme

Derived terms

• barnerim

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím. Akin to English rime.

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

Derived terms

• rimfrost

References

• “rim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *re(i)- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian r?m, Old Saxon -r?m, Old High German r?m, Icelandic rím.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?m/

Noun

r?m n

1. number

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: rime, rhyme

Portuguese

Etymology

Via Old Portuguese rin, from Latin r?n, from Proto-Italic *hr?n, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g??ren- (“an internal part of the body”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /???/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [???]
• Hyphenation: rim

Noun

rim m (plural rins)

1. kidney
2. (in the plural) small of the back

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *r?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. rhyme

Declension

See also

• rimma

Volapük

Noun

rim (nominative plural rims)

1. rhyme

Declension

See also

• rimod

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rí?m] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -í?m

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hr?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. frost, hoarfrost

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *r?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. story, poem, saga
2. rumour

Related terms

• riim

Synonyms

• (story, saga) sögu

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *k.tem? (“full”). Cognate with Thai ???? (dtem), Lao ???? (tem), Northern Thai ????, Lü ??? (?iim), Shan ???? (t?m), Nong Zhuang daem.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?im??/
• Tone numbers: rim¹
• Hyphenation: rim

Adjective

rim (old orthography rim)

1. full