Case-goods
furniture designed for storage, as cupboards, chests of drawers, or wardrobes.
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a form of generative grammar that views case roles, as agent, experiencer, instrument, and object, based on the semantic relationship of noun phrases to verbs, to be basic categories in deep structure and derives grammatical relations, as subject and direct object, from these case roles. noun (linguistics) a system of grammatical description based on the […]
- Case-harden
Metallurgy. to make the outside surface of (an alloy having an iron base) hard by carburizing and heat treatment, leaving the interior tough and ductile. to harden in spirit so as to render insensible or insensitive to external impressions or influences; make callous. Historical Examples Many woods, however, check severely in air-drying or case-harden in […]
- Caseharden
Metallurgy. to make the outside surface of (an alloy having an iron base) hard by carburizing and heat treatment, leaving the interior tough and ductile. to harden in spirit so as to render insensible or insensitive to external impressions or influences; make callous. Historical Examples I have a peculiar kind of steel which I cannot […]
- Case-history
all the relevant information or material gathered about an individual, family, group, etc., and arranged so as to serve as an organized record and have analytic value for a social worker, student, or the like: used especially in social work, sociology, psychiatry, and medicine. noun a record of a person’s background, medical history, etc, esp […]
- Case integration services
case integration services standard, programming (CIS) A committee formed to discuss CASE tool integration standards related to ATIS. (1994-10-25)