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cas·ing

[key-sing] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a case or covering; housing.

2.	material for a case or covering.

3.	the framework around a door or window.

4.	the outermost covering of an automobile tire.

5.	any frame or framework.

6.	a steel pipe or tubing, esp. as used in oil and gas wells.

7.	a layer of glass that has been fused to an underlying layer of glass of a different color or of different properties.

8.	the thin, tubular membrane of the intestines of sheep, cattle, or hogs, or a synthetic facsimile, for encasing processed meat in making sausages, salamis, etc.

9.	Nautical. the walls surrounding a funnel.

10.	a channel created in a garment or other article to carry a drawstring or elastic, as by sewing a strip of cloth to the basic material with two parallel rows of stitches.

[Origin: 1565–75; case² + -ing¹

]

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case2

[keys] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, cased, cas·ing.

–noun

1.	an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.

2.	a sheath or outer covering: a knife case.

3.	a box with its contents: a case of ginger ale.

4.	the amount contained in a box or other container: There are a dozen bottles to a case.

5.	a pair or couple; brace: a case of pistols.

6.	a surrounding frame or framework, as of a door.

7.	Bookbinding. a completed book cover ready to be fitted to form the binding of a book.

Printing. a tray of wood, metal, or plastic, divided into compartments for holding types for the use of a compositor and usually arranged in a set of two, the upper (upper case) for capital letters and often auxiliary types, the lower (lower case) for small letters and often auxiliary types, now generally replaced by the California job case. Compare news case.

9.	a cavity in the skull of a sperm whale, containing an oil from which spermaceti is obtained.

10.	Also called case card. Cards. the last card of a suit or denomination that remains after the other cards have been played: a case heart; the case jack.

11.	Faro. casebox.

12.	Southeastern U.S. (chiefly South Carolina). a coin of a particular denomination, as opposed to the same amount in change: a case quarter.

13.	Metallurgy. the hard outer part of a piece of casehardened steel.

–verb (used with object)

14.	to put or enclose in a case; cover with a case.

15.	Slang. to examine or survey (a house, bank, etc.) in planning a crime (sometimes fol. by out): They cased the joint and decided to pull the job on Sunday.

16.	to fuse a layer of glass onto (glass of a contrasting color or of different properties).

17.	to cover (a surface of a wall, well, shaft, etc.) with a facing or lining; revet.

18.	Bookbinding. to bind (a book) in a case.

19.

Cards Slang.

a.	to arrange (cards or a pack of cards) in a dishonest manner.

b.	to remember the quantity, suit, or denomination of (the cards played).

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME cas < AF cas(s)e, OF chasse < L capsa cylindrical case for holding books in scroll form, receptacle

]

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case² (kās) Pronunciation Key
n.

A container; a receptacle: a jewelry case; meat-filled cases of dough.
A container with its contents.
A decorative or protective covering or cover.
A set or pair: a case of pistols.
The frame or framework of a window, door, or stairway.
The surface or outer layer of a metal alloy.
Printing A shallow compartmented tray for storing type or type matrices.

tr.v. cased, cas·ing, cas·es

To put into or cover with a case; encase.
Slang To examine carefully, as in planning a crime: cased the bank before robbing it.

[Middle English, from Norman French casse, from Latin capsa.]

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cas·ing (kā'sĭng) Pronunciation Key
n.

An outer cover: a shell casing; a tire casing.
The frame or framework for a window or door.
A metal pipe or tube used as a lining for a water, oil, or gas well.
A membranous case, often made of animal intestine, used to contain sausage or other processed meat.
A narrow passage for a rod or cord, as in a curtain or the waistband of a garment, made by folding over a small strip of fabric at its edge along its width and sewing it in place.

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casing
noun
1.	the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell]
2.	the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire
3.	the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"