Cover vs Case - What's the difference?

Case is a synonym of cover.

In transitive terms the difference between cover and case

is that cover is to have as an assignment or responsibility while case is to cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

As nouns the difference between cover and case

is that cover is a lid while case is an actual event, situation, or fact.

As adjectives the difference between cover and case

is that cover is of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine while case is the last remaining card of a particular rank.

As verbs the difference between cover and case

is that cover is to place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect while case is to propose hypothetical cases.

cover

English

(wikipedia cover)

Noun

(en noun)

A lid.

A hiding from view.

A front and back of a book or magazine.

A top sheet of a bed.

A cover charge.

A setting at a restaurant table or formal .

* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=

, title=(The Celebrity) , chapter=1 citation , passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

(music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.

(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.

(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.

(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.

(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.

(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story

The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

(Knight)

In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.

Derived terms

* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau cover

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Verb

(en verb)

To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—

To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).

*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)

*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

To deal with.

*2010 (publication date), "Contributors", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:

*:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .

To be enough money for.

(label) To act as a replacement.

(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).

To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.

To provide insurance coverage for.

To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

To protect or control (a piece or square).

Quotations

* (English Citations of "cover")

Derived terms

* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncover

Descendants

* German: (l)

case

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cas, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An actual event, situation, or fact.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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.}}

A given condition or state.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.10:

Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace .

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

, 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= 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.}}

(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= 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.}}

(label) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 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. […]”}}

(label) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

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]

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

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.

* 2011 , Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus (page 275)

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 * Case

Hyponyms

* See also

Verb

(cas)

(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.

* L'Estrange

Casing upon the matter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cas, from .

Noun

(en noun)

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

A box, sheath, or covering generally.

a case''' for spectacles; the '''case of a watch

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

An enclosing frame or casing.

a door case'''; a window '''case

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.

(Knight)

Derived terms

* * briefcase * camel case * (noun) * case harden * letter case * lower case * packing case * sentence case * title case * upper case

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Adjective

(-)

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.

He drew the case eight!

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

(cas)

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

The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

(informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

* 1977 , (Michael Innes), The Gay Phoenix , ISBN 9780396074427, p. 116:

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.

* 2014 , (Amy Goodman), From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2) , Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:

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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