Case vs Thing - What's the difference?
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An actual event, situation, or fact.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A given condition or state.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.10:
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case . Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.}}
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, chapter=4, title= (label) An instance or event as a topic of study.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (label) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
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, title=
, chapter=2 (label) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
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Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
(label) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
* 2004 , Rick Miller, C++ for Artists
* 2011 , Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus (page 275)
(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
* L'Estrange
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
An enclosing frame or casing.
A suitcase.
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
(printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
* Prescott
(informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
* 1977 , (Michael Innes), The Gay Phoenix , ISBN 9780396074427,
* 2014 , (Amy Goodman), From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2) , Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014,
That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
An individual object or distinct entity.
(informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
(legal) Whatever can be owned.
The latest fad or fashion.
(in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
(informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
(informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
(slang) A penis.
* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009),
A living being or creature.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= That which matters; the crux.
* 1914 , Eugene Gladstone O'Neill,
(chiefly, historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
* 1974 , Jón Jóhannesson, A History of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth: Íslendinga Saga , translated by Haraldur Bessason, page 46:
* 1974', Jakob Benediktsson, ''Landnám og upphaf allsherjarríkis'', in ''Saga Íslands'', quoted in '''1988 by Jesse L. Byock in ''Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 85:
* 1988 , Jesse L. Byock, Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power , page 59:
Case is a related term of thing.
As nouns the difference between case and thing
is that case is (label) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position while thing is (chiefly|historical) a public assembly or judicial council in a germanic country.case
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cas, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
- Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace .
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}
Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases , the fossil record.}}
citation, passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case , were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}
- Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative'' case''', as we see from:
(16) (a) I know [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) I demand [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned ''Objective'' '''case''', as we see from:
(17) I want [''them''/*''they''/*''their'' to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a ''gerund'' Clause is assigned either ''Objective'' or ''Genitive'' '''case : cf.
(18) I don't like the idea of [''them''/''their''/*''they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
- Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
- Execution does not automatically stop at the next case .
Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* be the case * case study * court case * hard case * in case * just in case * CaseHyponyms
* See alsoVerb
(cas)- Casing upon the matter.
See also
*Etymology 2
From Middle English cas, from .Noun
(en noun)- a case''' for spectacles; the '''case of a watch
- a door case'''; a window '''case
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* * briefcase * camel case * (noun) * case harden * letter case * lower case * packing case * sentence case * title case * upper caseReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Adjective
(-)- He drew the case eight!
References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(cas)- The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
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- You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
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- Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
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*thing
English
Noun
(en noun)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.}}
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- “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing .”
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
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- Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing . (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)
- In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, [...]
- The goðar'' seem both to have received payment of ''thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing , and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.
- All Icelandic things were skap-thing , meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.