| 单词 | case |
| 释义 | Word Frequency case 1(keɪs) noun 1. a single instance, occurrence, or example of something 2. an instance of disease, injury, hardship, etc 3. a question or matter for discussion the case before the committee 4. a specific condition or state of affairs; situation 5. a set of arguments supporting a particular action, cause, etc 6. a. a person attended or served by a doctor, social worker, solicitor, etc; patient or client b. (as modifier) a case study 7. a. an action or suit at law or something that forms sufficient grounds for bringing an action he has a good case b. the evidence offered in court to support a claim 8. grammar a. a set of grammatical categories of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, marked by inflection in some languages, indicating the relation of the noun, adjective, or pronoun toother words in the sentence b. any one of these categories the nominative case 9. informal a person in or regarded as being in a specified condition the accident victim was a hospital case 10. informal a person of a specified character (esp in the phrase a hard case) 11. informal an odd person; eccentric 12. US informal love or infatuation 13. short for case shot , canister (sense 2b) 14. as the case may be 15. in any case 16. in case 17. in case of 18. in no case Word origin Old English casus (grammatical) case, associated also with Old French cas a happening; both from Latin cāsus, a befalling, occurrence, from cadere to fallWord Frequency case 2(keɪs) noun 1. a. a container, such as a box or chest b. (in combination) suitcase briefcase 2. an outer cover or sheath, esp for a watch 3. a receptacle and its contents a case of ammunition 4. a pair or brace, esp of pistols 5. architecture another word for casing (sense 3) 6. a completed cover ready to be fastened to a book to form its binding 7. printing a tray divided into many compartments in which a compositor keeps individual metal types of a particular size and style. Cases were originallyused in pairs, one (the upper case) for capitals, the other (the lower case) for smallletters See also upper case, lower case 8. metallurgy the surface of a piece of steel that has been case-hardened verb (transitive) 9. to put into or cover with a case to case the machinery 10. slang to inspect carefully (esp a place to be robbed) Word origin C13: from Old French casse, from Latin capsa, from capere to take, hold |
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