What's the difference between case and docket?

Case


Definition:

  • (n.) A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
  • (n.) A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
  • (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
  • (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
  • (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
  • (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
  • (v. t.) To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
  • (n.) Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
  • (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
  • (n.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
  • (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
  • (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
  • (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
  • (3) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
  • (4) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (5) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
  • (6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (7) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
  • (8) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • (9) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (10) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
  • (11) Only 81 cases are reported in the international literature.
  • (12) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (13) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (14) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (15) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
  • (16) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (17) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (18) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
  • (19) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.
  • (20) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.

Docket


Definition:

  • (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
  • (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
  • (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
  • (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
  • (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
  • (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
  • (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
  • (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison with the weekly docket system, chosen as a reference method, validated the self-questionnaire.
  • (2) Although the case against Carl was initially removed from the court docket, it was reinstated because forensic evidence and reports from the accident scene became available, the prosecution said.
  • (3) If they do make it, they’ll get sent back.” Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), said that since the end of July, 39 immigration courts across the country, including in Hawaii, California, Texas, Omaha, Cleveland and New York, have juvenile dockets with cases pending.
  • (4) A hearing this week on the 17th floor of an immigration court in downtown LA highlighted one major issue: three of the five juveniles on the docket were not present.
  • (5) We hope that a trial date is also discussed but don’t yet know how the court’s docket is looking.” Peterson is hoping for a quick trial date or he will likely miss the rest of the season.
  • (6) "None of the objections, whether filed on the objections docket or elsewhere, have shown the Settlement to be anything other than fair, reasonable and adequate," he wrote.
  • (7) That’s despite the AFP having investigated former speaker Peter Slipper in 2012 over allegations he misused taxi dockets.
  • (8) This longitudinal database was compiled following a systematic search of all available docket books from the superior courts and mental health records from the state hospitals in Connecticut beginning in January 1970.
  • (9) Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced plans to move cases of unaccompanied immigrant children to the top of the docket.
  • (10) One man in a yellow football shirt held a crime docket marked "GBH" and "beer bottle".
  • (11) They are called “rocket dockets”, and ricochet through immigration courts in what critics say is a blur of confusion, anxiety and frustration.
  • (12) As soon as Friday, the supreme court may add Miller’s lawsuit to its docket.
  • (13) Most often, county court dockets were hand searched to identify those pleading insanity, although numerous other methodologies were used.
  • (14) The case was settled out of court and dismissed from the docket in April 2011, and the details were sealed.
  • (15) "They've handed over reams and reams of documents – emails, payment dockets, expenses forms, payslips, you name it.
  • (16) One man is wearing a yellow football shirt and jeans and holding a docket for a case of GBH involving a beer bottle.
  • (17) The manufacturers do print warnings on their quotations and their delivery dockets, but the serious nature of some cement burns is not stressed.
  • (18) Research data were obtained from court dockets filed with Wisconsin's Patients Compensation Panel and from 281 attorneys who provided the age for 431 claimants.
  • (19) While the government is expected to appeal the decision later on Friday, Kessler ordered that the public versions of the tapes to be released obscure “all faces other than Mr Dhiab’s, voices, names, etc.” The unclassified version of the videos “may then be entered on the public docket,” Kessler wrote.
  • (20) So when News Corporation volunteered all these documents from the Sun – these payslips, dockets, you name it – I think they were kind of hoping they'd find evidence of a similar scandal at the Sun.

Words possibly related to "case"