case
/keɪs/ nom A1En français : cas, cause
- An actual event, situation, or fact. · For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.· It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter. · It was one of the detective's easiest cases.· Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.
- An instance or event as a topic of study. · The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
- A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence. · The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.· Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language. · Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.· Latin is a language that employs case.
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms. · There were another five cases reported overnight.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
Pluriel cases
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
Everything about this case is rum.
The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.”
“Now I recollect,” said the afflicted old father; “my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!”
In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
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