case

An actual event, situation, or fact.

For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.

It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.

A given condition or state.

Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face.

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

A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.

It was one of the detective's easiest cases.

Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.

An instance or event as a topic of study.

The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.

“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. […]”

As the conflict has dragged on, prosecutors in Ukraine are now pursuing 247 cases of environmental war crimes against Russia in Ukrainian courts and the International Criminal Court, according to reporting published in April by the New York Times.

To propose hypothetical cases.

Casing upon the Matter.

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.