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 .

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)

Noun

(en noun)

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

A , trial.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

A Test match.

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars]] and sea urchins.

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

* Dryden

Who would excel, when few can make a test / Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A witness.

* Ld. Berners

Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.