case

adj

Etymology: From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa, Portuguese caixa.

1. The last remaining card of a particular rank.

   “He drew the case eight!”

   “If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.”

name

1. A surname.
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noun

1. Acronym of computer-aided software engineering.
2. Acronym of coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English case, from Old Northern French casse (compare Old French chasse (“box, chest, case”)), from Latin capsa (“box, bookcase”), from capiō (“to take, seize, hold”). Doublet of cash, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja, Asturian caxa, Portuguese caixa.

1. To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
2. To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

   “The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.”

3. To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

   “You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.”

   “Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.”