Usually means: Instance or occurrence of something.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. case, the case: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. case, case: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. case, case: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. case: Collins English Dictionary
  5. case: Vocabulary.com
  6. Case, ca'se, case: Wordnik
  7. case, (not) the case: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CASE, Case, case: Wiktionary
  9. case: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. case: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. case: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CASE: Dictionary.com
  13. case (1), case (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. case: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CASE, Case (Icelandic Netflix tv series), Case (SQL), Case (Teni song), Case (album), Case (disambiguation), Case (goods), Case (grammar), Case (linguistics), Case (name), Case (policy debate), Case (singer), Case (song), Case, The Case (TV series), The Case (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Case: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. case: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. case: Rhymezone
  19. case: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. case: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CASE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Case: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. case: Free Dictionary
  24. case: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. case: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. case: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Case: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  6. case-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  7. Case: Lexicon of Linguistics
  8. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. case: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. case: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. CASE (Disambiguation), case, the case: Legal dictionary
  8. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. CASE, case: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. CASE, case: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Case: Unicode Glossary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. CASE (Disambiguation), case: Encyclopedia
  7. Computer Glossart and Terminologies (No longer online)

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. CASE (Disambiguation), case: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. CASE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. case: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. case, case, case, case, case, case, case, case, case, case: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. case: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  3. case: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Case: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Case: Poker Terms

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. CASE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An actual event, situation, or fact.
noun:  (now rare) A given condition or state.
noun:  A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession; the set of tasks involved in addressing the situation of a specific person or event.
noun:  (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
noun:  (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
noun:  (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
noun:  (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
noun:  (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
noun:  (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
noun:  (archaic) A love affair.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.
noun:  A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
noun:  A box, sheath, or covering generally.
noun:  A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
noun:  An enclosing frame or casing.
noun:  A suitcase.
noun:  A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
noun:  The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
noun:  (poker slang) Four of a kind.
noun:  (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
noun:  (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
noun:  A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
noun:  A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).
adjective:  (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
verb:  (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
verb:  (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
noun:  (computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.
noun:  (manufacturing) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
noun:  (grammar) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.

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