Case vs Subject - What's the Difference?

Case

Subject

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • the actual state of things
  • a portable container for carrying several objects
  • a person requiring professional services
  • a problem requiring investigation
  • a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
  • a specific state of mind that is temporary
  • the quantity contained in a case
  • the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
  • a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
  • (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
  • a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
  • a special set of circumstances
  • a specific size and style of type within a type family
  • nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
  • an occurrence of something
  • a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  • bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
  • an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
  • the housing or outer covering of something
  • a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Definition as Noun
  • (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
  • (logic) the first term of a proposition
  • a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
  • something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
  • a branch of knowledge
  • a person who owes allegiance to that nation
  • the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  • some situation or event that is thought about
Definition as Verb
  • look over, usually with the intention to rob
  • enclose in, or as if in, a case
Definition as Verb
  • cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
  • make accountable for
  • make subservient; force to submit or subdue
Definition as Adjective
Definition as Adjective
  • likely to be affected by something
  • possibly accepting or permitting
  • being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

Examples

  • "that was not the case"
  • "the musicians left their instrument cases backstage"
  • "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor"
  • "Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir"
  • "he stated his case clearly"
  • "a case of the jitters"
  • "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced"
  • "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
  • "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters"
  • "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
  • "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"
  • "the family brought suit against the landlord"
  • "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase"
  • "the clock has a walnut case"
  • "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
  • "They men cased the housed"
  • "my feet were encased in mud"
  • "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression"
  • "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"
  • "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
  • "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
  • "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
  • "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
  • "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
  • "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"
  • "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
  • "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors"

Parts of Speech

Noun, Verb
Adjective, Noun, Verb

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