What's the difference between case and sentence?

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.

Sentence


Definition:

  • (n.) Sense; meaning; significance.
  • (n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
  • (n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.
  • (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
  • (n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
  • (n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
  • (v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
  • (v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.
  • (v. t.) To utter sententiously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
  • (2) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (3) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
  • (4) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (5) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (6) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
  • (7) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
  • (8) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (9) "It is in my power to lessen their sentence – it's not excluded that that will happen."
  • (10) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (11) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
  • (12) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
  • (13) The first paper of this series (Picheny, Durlach, & Braida, 1985) presented evidence that there are substantial intelligibility differences for hearing-impaired listeners between nonsense sentences spoken in a conversational manner and spoken with the effort to produce clear speech.
  • (14) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
  • (15) We did not find a postoperative threshold shift (signal-to-noise ratio) for the intelligibility of sentences presented in noise.
  • (16) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
  • (17) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (18) A high court judge sentenced him to 22 months in prison in February 2012, but he fled the country before he could be jailed.
  • (19) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
  • (20) Most of the children's revisions involved changes in sentence constituents.

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