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# case

«case» in Mova's school dictionary: **a container or box for keeping or carrying things: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a case, cases)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A case is a container or box for keeping or carrying things: a pencil case, a suitcase, a phone case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m1)

2) A case is one example or situation of something: a case of chickenpox, in that case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m2)

3) A case is a crime or problem that the police, a detective or a court looks into. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m3)

4) «In case» means as a plan for something that might happen: take a coat in case it rains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m4)

5) In writing, upper case means capital letters and lower case means small letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m5)

6) A case can also mean the condition or state someone is in, especially a bad one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In school a pencil case holds pens and pencils; pupils learn upper case and lower case letters. In safety lessons «in case of emergency» or «in case of fire» starts instructions: «In case of fire, use the stairs, not the lift». In stories and mysteries, detectives solve cases. In maths and logic «in this case» means for this example. Phrases: in case, in case of, just in case, in any case, in that case, pencil case, upper case, lower case, case closed.

### examples

- I keep my pens in my pencil case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x1)
- Take an umbrella in case it rains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x2)
- In case of fire, leave by the nearest exit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x3)
- The detective solved the case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x4)
- There were three cases of flu in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x5)
- Write your name in upper case letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x6)
- «It's raining.» «In that case, let's play indoors.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x7)
- Pack a plaster just in case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x8)
- The poor king was in a terrible case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/#x9)

### note

Countable: cases. Trap: «in case» (as a precaution, before something happens) is not the same as «if»: «Take a coat in case it rains» means take it now; «Take a coat if it rains» means only when it rains. A «suitcase» is a case for clothes when travelling. In maths, «in each case» means for every example.

### In the corpora

- [A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back if the home is left in good condition.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/13/)
- [AI is good at the usual cases it has seen many times and often weak at unusual or brand-new ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/16/)
- [In every case it is a strong guess, not a certainty, so people still check, decide and stay in charge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/4/)
- [It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court past cases that a chatbot had invented, and that the judge fined them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/5/)
- [Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «case» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/case/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.