a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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

a sheath or outer covering: a knife case.

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

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

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

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a surrounding frame or framework, as of a door.

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.

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

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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.

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Faro. casebox.

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

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

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verb (used with object)

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

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

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

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

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

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Cards Slang.

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

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

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English cas < Anglo-French cas(s)e, Old French chasse < Latin capsa cylindrical case for holding books in scroll form, receptacle

Related forms

cas·er, noun

well-cased, adjective

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upper case

—n
1.	the top half of a compositor's type case in which capital letters, reference marks, and accents are kept

—*adj*
2.	of or relating to capital letters kept in this case and used in the setting or production of printed or typed matter

—vb
3.	(tr) to print with upper-case letters; capitalize

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Word Origin & History

case

"receptacle," c.1300, from O.N.Fr. casse, O.Fr. chasse, from L. capsa "box," from capere "to take, hold" (see capable). The verb meaning "examine, inspect" (usually prior to robbing) is Amer.Eng. slang first recorded 1915. Artillery sense is from 1660s, from case-shot "small

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projectiles put in cases" (1620s). Reference in the printing trade (first recorded 1580s) to the two trays where compositors keep their types in separate compartments for easy access led to upper case for capitals and lower case for small letters.

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Medical Dictionary

case (kās)
n.
An occurrence of a disease or disorder.

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Cultural Dictionary

case definition

A grammatical category indicating whether nouns and pronouns are functioning as the subject of a sentence (nominative case) or the object of a sentence (objective case), or are indicating possession (possessive case). He is in the nominative case, him is in the objective case, and his is in the possessive case. In a language such as English, nouns do not change their form in the nominative or objective case. Only pronouns do. Thus, ball stays the same in both “the ball is thrown,” where it is the subject, and in “Harry threw the ball,” where it is the object.

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