Office vs Case - What's the difference?
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A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
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, title= A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
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A charge or trust; a function.
*(Bible), (w) xi. 13
*:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.
*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
(lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I would I could do a good office between you.
*Doctrine and Covenants 25: 5
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*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144
*:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
(lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.
*1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:
*:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .
An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).
An actual event, situation, or fact.
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, 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= (label) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
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, 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,
Office is a related term of case.
As nouns the difference between office and case
is that office is a building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed while case is (label) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.office
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981
Hyponyms
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.
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*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.