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| case [ kayss ] |
noun (plural cas·es) |
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1. holder or outer covering: something that serves as a container or covering
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2. container: a container with its contents
  bought a case of soft drinks
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3. piece of baggage: an item of baggage, especially a suitcase
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4. printing kind of printed character: one of the two kinds of printed character, either a capital or small letter
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5. buildings
Same as casing (sense 2)
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6. printing tray holding printing type: in hot-metal printing, a tray with compartments in which individual printing blocks are kept
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7. pair: a pair, especially of pistols
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8. civil engineering
Same as casing (sense 3)
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transitive verb (past and past participle cased, present participle cas·ing, 3rd person present singular cas·es) |
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put covering around something: to enclose something in a covering
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| [13th century. Via Old French dialect casse< Latin capsa "box" < capere "to hold"] |
