Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in somecases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
1586,William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXVI.”, inAlbions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island:[…], London:[…] George Robinson[and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman,[…],→OCLC,page174:
Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth thecace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large acase. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
Thecase was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
The teaching consists of theory lessons andcase studies.
“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 Tichbournecase, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]”
The accusativecase most commonly indicates a direct object.
Latin has sixcases, and remnants of a seventh.
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, inTransformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page292:
Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assignedNominativecase, as we see from: (16) (a) I know [thatthey/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] (16) (b) I demand [thatthey/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assignedObjectivecase, as we see from: (17) I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow] And the Subject of agerund Clause is assigned eitherObjective orGenitivecase: cf. (18) I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara,Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page144:
We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clearcases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
Poor fellow, just as I thought! It's acase with him, anybody can see that. He is thinking about Christine, for a certainty. Lovers always take to stargazing and moonlight dreaming — it's part of their complaint.
1876,The New York Drama, volumes1-2, page 1:
I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it. I saw it was acase, and I advised you to try — dissipation.
In medicine, in precise and respectful usage, a case is not a patient and a patient is not a case, whereas a patient has a case. Inloose usage, however, the words are often treated as synonymous.
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(printing,historical) A shallowtray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holdingtype, 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).
The price of acase (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
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(pokerslang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
He drew thecase eight!
2006, David Apostolico,Lessons from the Professional Poker Tour, page21:
If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — thecase ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K.
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 tocase the joint for a break in.
2014,Amy Goodman,From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2), Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014,0:49 to 0:57:
Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helpedcase the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “quasy”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
