case

/keɪs/

意味: ケース、事件

例文: ALX filed a case about missing socks.
　　  ALXが靴下紛失事件の書類を提出。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: legal case(法律事件), suitcase(スーツケース), case study(事例研究)

定義: 物や情報を入れる箱や容器、または特定の状況や事例を指します。法律では、裁判や訴訟のことを指します。

caseは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an occurrence of something
Noun: a special set of circumstances
Noun: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
Noun: the actual state of things
Noun: a portable container for carrying several objects
Noun: a person requiring professional services
Noun: a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Noun: a problem requiring investigation
Noun: a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
Noun: the quantity contained in a case
Noun: nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
Noun: a specific state of mind that is temporary
Noun: a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
Noun: a specific size and style of type within a type family
Noun: an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
Noun: the housing or outer covering of something
Noun: the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
Noun: (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
Noun: bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
Noun: a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
Verb: look over, usually with the intention to rob
Verb: enclose in, or as if in, a case

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: it was a case of bad judgment
Noun: another instance occurred yesterday
Noun: but there is always the famous example of the Smiths
Noun: in that event, the first possibility is excluded
Noun: it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled
Noun: the family brought suit against the landlord
Noun: that was not the case
Noun: the musicians left their instrument cases backstage
Noun: a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor
Noun: the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
Noun: the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities
Noun: Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir
Noun: he stated his case clearly
Noun: a case of the jitters
Noun: a real character
Noun: a strange character
Noun: a friendly eccentric
Noun: the capable type
Noun: a mental case
Noun: the clock has a walnut case
Noun: the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced
Noun: for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters
Noun: the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase
Verb: They men cased the housed
Verb: my feet were encased in mud

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): case, caseful, casing, causa, cause, character, compositor’s case, display case, eccentric, encase, event, example, face, font, fount, grammatical case, guinea pig, incase, instance, lawsuit, pillow slip, pillowcase, sheath, shell, showcase, slip, subject, suit, type, typeface, typesetter’s case, vitrine

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adult, argument, bed linen, circumstance, container, containerful, covering, enclose, fact, framework, grammatical category, happening, housing, inspect, person, problem, proceeding, receptacle, state of mind, type

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, accident, accompaniment, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adducing, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adoption, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, airframe, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, anti, anti-american, appeal, appearance, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, arbor, archaist, aries, armful, arrogator, ash-pan, ashtray, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, avalanche, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, bag, baldhead, balker, bank, bankruptcy, bark, barnful, barrel, barrow, basin, basket, bather, beard, bedfellow, beehive, beginning, bereaved, best, bin, binnacle, birth, biter, black, blanket, blogger, blond, bluecoat, body covering, bodybuilder, bomber, boom, bottle, bowl, box, brachycephalic, bread-bin, brunet, bucket, bullfighter, bunker, buster, bustle, cabinet, can, cancer, candidate, canister, capful, capitalist, capricorn, capsule, captor, caregiver, carful, cargo container, cartload, carton, case, cashier, casing, cask, casket, cassette, cat box, catch, catchall, celebrant, censor, centrist, chamberpot, chameleon, change, changer, character, charmer, child, chutzpanik, climbing frame, clincher, closer, clotheshorse, clumsy person, coaming, coin box, collapse, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, con, conservative, contact, contemplative, contestant, convergence, convert, copycat, cornice, corral, counter, counterargument, counterterrorist, coward, crankcase, crash, crate, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, cripple, crust, cup, cylinder, dancer, dead person, deaf person, debaser, debtor, deckle, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, derrick, dessertspoon, destiny, detail, dice cup, dieter, differentiator, dike, disappearance, discharge, disentangler, dish, dispenser, disputant, dissenter, distributor housing, divider, dolichocephalic, domestic partner, doorframe, double, drawer, dresser, dribbler, drug user, dumpster, dustpan, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elder, elizabethan, embower, emotional person, empty, encapsulate, encase, ending, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, enshrine, entertainer, envelope, episode, error, ethnic, event, eventuality, ex-spouse, experience, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, failure, faller, fastener, female, fence, fender, fiduciary, finish, fire, first-rater, flash, flask, follower, font, foreclosure, fortify, frame, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gantry, garbage, gatekeeper, gatherer, gemini, gender, general, gentile, glass, good guy, good person, gordian knot, grab bag, granter, grate, greeter, grill, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, gun carriage, handbarrow, handful, handicapped person, hater, hatful, hayrack, headful, hearing, hedge, heterosexual, hinge, homework problem, homosexual, homunculus, honeycomb, hood, hope, hoper, hopper, host, hot-water bottle, houseful, huddler, hugger, immerse, immune, important person, in-basket, incident, individualist, indumentum, indusium, inhabitant, innocent, insured, integument, intellectual, interpreter, interruption, intervention, introvert, jack of all trades, jar, jat, jew, jewel, journal box, jug, jumper, juncture, junior, juvenile, keg, kettle, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, koan, lamp house, lapful, large person, last word, latin, lattice, laugher, lawsuit, leader, learner, left-hander, legal action, leo, liberal, libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, litigation, liver, longer, loose cannon, loved one, lover, machine, magnetic bottle, mailer, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manger, manipulator, married, masturbator, matter of fact, measure, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, militarist, miracle, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, mold, money handler, monolingual, mother hen, mounting, mouse, mouthful, movement, mug, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, naturalization, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, news event, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, number, nurser, observation, occultist, oldster, one-off, optimist, orphan, ossuary, ostrich, ouster, out-basket, outbreak, outburst, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, oxbow, pacifist, package, pail, pamperer, pan, pansexual, pardoner, part of speech, particular, partner, party, passer, patrician, peer, perambulate, perceiver, percher, perianth, pericarp, peridium, periodic event, person, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, picture frame, pillow sham, pipeful, pisces, pisser, pitcher, planner, plate, player, playing field, pledgee, pledger, pocketful, pod, pons asinorum, poser, posturer, pot, powder horn, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, pro, procedure, professional, proof, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, puzzle, pyx, quarter, quitter, rack, radical, radome, realist, reason, rebus, receivership, receptacle, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religious person, reliquary, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, reverse, review, ribbing, rich person, riddle, right-hander, riser, romper, roof, roomful, rope in, roundhead, ruler, rusher, sack, sagittarius, saltcellar, sash, save-all, savings bank, sawhorse, scale, scientist, scoop, score, scorpio, scratcher, scuttle, second-rater, seeder, seeker, segregate, self, semantic role, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, sheath, sheet, shelfful, shell, shoeful, shovel, showman, signer, silent butler, simpleton, six-footer, skepful, skidder, skim, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, slough, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snowcap, snuffer, snuffler, sobersides, socializer, socket, sophisticate, sort, sound, sounding board, specious argument, sphinx, spitter, spittoon, spoon, sport, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stay-at-home, stifler, stigmatic, stocks, stoic, stooper, storage ring, stranger, stretcher, struggler, subject, success, supernumerary, supervention, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tablespoon, tagger, tambour, tank, tapper, taurus, teacup, teaspoon, tempter, tense, tenter, termer, terror, test, testator, theca, thimble, thin person, thing, thinking cap, third-rater, thoroughbred, thrower, tidy, tiger, time capsule, totemist, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, tray, treat, trial, trier, trouble, trough, truss, truth, tub, tuck, turner, type family, tyrant, undercarriage, undoer, unfortunate, union, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, vessel, vesture, vet, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, walker, wall in, wanter, ward, warrior, wastepaper basket, watcher, watering can, wattle, weakling, weasel, wheeled vehicle, white, wiggler, window, window frame, winker, withholder, witness, woman, wonder, workbasket, worker, worldling, yawner

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): baggage, bicameral script, boldface, boot, box, briefcase, cardcase, cigarette case, civil suit, class action, client, compact, countersuit, crate, criminal suit, dispatch case, font cartridge, gearbox, glasses case, gothic, gun case, humiliation, husk, italic, jacket, kit, letter case, locket, lorica, medullary sheath, moot, neurolemma, nominative, oblique, pack, paternity suit, patient, piece, pillbox, portfolio, proportional font, quiver, referral, sack, sans serif, screen font, shoe, sleeve, theca, time, trophy case, typewriter font, unicameral script, wallet, watch case, welfare case, writing desk

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: case, casing, encasement, exemplify, incasement, instantiate, subject, sue, type, typic, typify

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology, science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: fear, negative, sadness