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Case can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
case used as an adjective:
- The last remaining card of a particular rank
"He drew the case eight!"
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
case used as a verb:
- To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
case used as a noun:
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- One of several similar instances or events which are being studied and compared.
- An instance of grammatical case; a category of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, specialized (usually by inflection) to indicate a particular syntactic relation to other words in a sentence.
"The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object." - A set of grammatical cases or their meanings in a particular language collectively.
"Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages." - A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
"It was one of the detective's easiest cases." - An instance of a specific condition or set of symptons.
"There were another five cases reported overnight." - A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- 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.
- In typography, the nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- four of a kind
- A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is case?
- Adjective usage: He drew the case eight!
- Noun usage: The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.
- Noun usage: Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
- Noun usage: Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
- Noun usage: Latin is a language that employs case.
- Noun usage: It was one of the detective's easiest cases.
- Noun usage: Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.
- Noun usage: The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
- Noun usage: There were another five cases reported overnight.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of case are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of case, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
