(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.
Hutch
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.
(n.) A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.
(n.) A measure of two Winchester bushels.
(n.) The case of a flour bolt.
(n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
(n.) A jig for washing ore.
(v. t.) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
(v. t.) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
Example Sentences:
(1) It had only been told on Wednesday that Hutchings could not be there.
(2) Passersby were encouraged to sign a letter to Hutchings that stated: "You seem to be saying that our state schools are good enough for our kids but not for yours."
(3) Asked after the factory visit why Hutchings had not been at the hustings, David Cameron said: "She was with me at a very important meeting at a business that's the sort of beating heart of Eastleigh.
(4) The communities and local government secretary, Eric Pickles, met voters in the village of Hamble with the Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, who was forced to deny making potentially damaging remarks about immigration and gay people after launching her campaign on Friday.
(5) According to the Daily Mirror, Hutchings said on Friday: "William [her son] is very gifted which gives us another interesting challenge in finding the right sort of education for him – impossible in the state system.
(6) But while out campaigning with the home secretary, Theresa May, on Monday, Hutchings insisted her comments had been misinterpreted.
(7) The basic shortcomings of the method Belding-Hutch are mentioned: inaccuracies in the equation of the heat balance, incongruity of the accepted criteria with the up-to-date physiological data.
(8) "It's such a shame that Conservatives like Maria Hutchings want to do our education system down instead of sending the message that whatever your background, you can achieve what you set out to do in life."
(9) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
(10) Outside, the wind and rain sends the school's pet rabbits into a retreat deep inside their hutches.
(11) Individual calf hutches or pens provide adequate isolation if sufficient spacing and good sanitation are maintained.
(12) A letter from cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, another surgeon and six named GPs states: "As GPs and surgeons who all started their education at state-funded schools, we are proof that Maria Hutchings' assertions are not true.
(13) A modification of the method Belding-Hutch is proposed.
(14) On the first day of her campaign , Maria Hutchings was asked about one interview in which she was quoted as saying she did not care about refugees and another in which she allegedly claimed that Labour had done more for "the immigrants, the gays, the bloody foxes" than for children with special needs.
(15) Hutchings, a local woman who makes much of her down-to-earth attitude in campaign literature, could be spotted at various points during the day being ushered around by a coterie of smart-suited, well-spoken young men brandishing shiny blue balloons like defensive weaponry.
(16) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said Hutchings had insulted "every pupil and teacher at our state schools", while a group of surgeons and GPs who had been state-educated wrote an open letter claiming they were living proof she was wrong .
(17) The Lib Dems, who are defending the seat in next Thursday's vote following Chris Huhne's resignation, seized on the Tory problems, presenting 10 questions that they said had to be answered about Hutchings, who has attracted headlines for forthright – and often off-message – views about subjects ranging from state education to the EU and gay marriage.
(18) While canvassing with Hutchings on a housing estate in the Hampshire constituency, Duncan Smith said he was glad she did not always toe the party line.
(19) Boyd was informed of Drake’s talents by Hutchings, went down to see for himself and at once became the third figure of the Drake-Kirby-Joe Boyd triumvirate which created … well first, of course, there was Five Leaves Left.
(20) It is not the first time during the campaign that Hutchings has claimed she has been misquoted or misinterpreted.