a portable container for carrying several objects; "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage" a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow; "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" the actual state of things; "that was not the case" nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument; "he stated his case clearly" a problem requiring investigation; "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir" an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" a person requiring professional services; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor" the quantity contained in a case a specific state of mind that is temporary; "a case of the jitters" look over, usually with the intention to rob; "They men cased the housed
That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes
an inflectional form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective indicating its grammatical relation to other words Neither English nor Welsh has cases for nouns or adjectives English has cases for pronouns: I/me/my, he/him/his, she/her/her, you/you/your and they/them/their are the subjective, objective, and possessive cases, respectively
A case consists of measurements on variables for an individual subject or experimental unit For example, you might take many measurements on a single person: variables such as height, weight, gender, etc The individual person's measurements on all the variables represents a case Measurement on a single variable is called an observation Sometimes the term case and observation are used interchangeably But, strictly speaking, a case represents one computer record, or one row of data in a spreadsheet, for an individual experimental unit Each individual case (or person in this example) will have a row of data contained in the data file The data file will have n rows of data, where n is the number of cases
a wooden drawer partitioned into many small boxes, used to store the separate type characters The cases are held in a frame or rack, often with a bracket on the top to allow two cases (eg an upper and lower) to be held open one above the other, and in front of which the compositor stands whilst setting the job Some cases have no internal partitions, and are used to store wood letter (or blocks, dingbats, etc ) Over 200 different styles of case are shown here, but there are many others