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seat
English
Etymology
From Middle English sete, from Old English s?te and Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *s?tij? (“seat”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Compare also Old High German gisazi (German Gesäß), Middle Dutch gesaete. Sense of "residence, abode, established place" likely derived from cognate Old English s?te (“house”), related to Old High German s?za (“sedan, seat, domicile”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Noun
seat (plural seats)
- Something to be sat upon.
- A place in which to sit.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- A place in which to sit.
- A location or site.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- The location of a governing body.
- (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- 1806, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England
- A man of fortune, who lives in London, may, in plays, operas, routs, assemblies, French cookery, French sauces, and French wines, spend as much yearly, as he could do, were he to live in the most hospitable manner at his seat in the country.
- 1806, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
- Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building
- He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
- I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- The starting point of a fire.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Chapter 3
- She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Chapter 3
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
seat (third-person singular simple present seats, present participle seating, simple past and past participle seated)
- (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies
- The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
- 1887, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage
- He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies
- (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- They had seated themselves in Nova Guiana.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- 1747, William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
- The Plantations, for the most Part, are high and pleasantly seated
- 1747, William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia
- To put a seat or bottom in.
Translations
See also
- seat of learning
- seat of wisdom
- seat of honor
- sedentary
- see
- sit
Anagrams
- AEST, ESTA, East, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seta, tase, teas
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) set
- (Sursilvan) siat
Etymology
From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.
Number
seat
- (Sutsilvan) seven
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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.]
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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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