Suit vs. Case
Suitnoun
A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
Suitnoun
(by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
Suitnoun
A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
Suitnoun
A full set of armour.
Suitnoun
(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
Suitnoun
The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
Suitnoun
Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
Suitnoun
(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
Suitnoun
The full set of sails required for a ship.
Suitnoun
(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
Suitnoun
(obsolete) Regular order; succession.
Suitnoun
(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
Suitnoun
(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Suitverb
(transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
Suitverb
To be suitable or apt for one's image.
Suitverb
(transitive)To be appropriate or apt for.
Suitverb
To dress; to clothe.
Suitverb
To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
Suitverb
(intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
Suitnoun
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
Suitnoun
The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
Suitnoun
The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
Suitnoun
The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
Suitnoun
That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.
Suitnoun
Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.
Suitnoun
A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a three-piece business suit.
Suitnoun
One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; - each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as, hearts were her long suit.
Suitnoun
Regular order; succession.
Suitnoun
Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;
Suitverb
To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
Suitverb
To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
Suitverb
To dress; to clothe.
Suitverb
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
Suitverb
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; - usually followed by with or to.
Suitnoun
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
Suitnoun
a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;
Suitnoun
playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color;
Suitnoun
a businessman dressed in a business suit;
Suitnoun
a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage);
Suitnoun
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
Suitverb
be agreeable or acceptable to;
Suitverb
be agreeable or acceptable;
Suitverb
accord or comport with;
Suitverb
enhance the appearance of;
Suitnoun
a set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt
Suitnoun
a set of clothes to be worn for a particular activity
Suitnoun
a complete set of pieces of armour for covering the whole body
Suitnoun
a high-ranking executive in an organization, typically one regarded as exercising influence in an impersonal way
Suitnoun
any of the sets into which a pack of playing cards is divided (in conventional packs comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs).
Suitnoun
a lawsuit.
Suitnoun
the process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage
Suitnoun
a petition or entreaty made to a person in authority
Suitnoun
a complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars
Suitverb
be convenient for or acceptable to
Suitverb
act entirely according to one's own wishes (often used to express the speaker's annoyance)
Suitverb
adapt something to
Suitverb
enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone)
Suitverb
put on clothes, especially for a particular activity
Casenoun
An actual event, situation, or fact.
Casenoun
A given condition or state.
Casenoun
A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
Casenoun
(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
Casenoun
(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
Casenoun
(grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.
Casenoun
Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
Casenoun
(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
Casenoun
(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
Casenoun
A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
Casenoun
A box, sheath, or covering generally.
Casenoun
A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
Casenoun
An enclosing frame or casing.
Casenoun
A suitcase.
Casenoun
A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
Casenoun
The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
Casenoun
A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
Casenoun
The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
Casenoun
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
Casenoun
(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
Casenoun
(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
Casenoun
A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
Caseverb
(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.
Caseverb
(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
Caseverb
(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
Caseverb
To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
Caseadjective
(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
Casenoun
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.
Casenoun
A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
Casenoun
A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.
Casenoun
An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.
Casenoun
A small fissure which admits water to the workings.
Casenoun
Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
Casenoun
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.
Casenoun
A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
Casenoun
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.
Casenoun
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.
Caseverb
To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
Caseverb
To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.
Caseverb
To propose hypothetical cases.
Casenoun
a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
Casenoun
an occurrence of something;
Casenoun
a special set of circumstances;
Casenoun
a problem requiring investigation;
Casenoun
the actual state of things;
Casenoun
a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument;
Casenoun
a portable container for carrying several objects;
Casenoun
a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;
Casenoun
a person requiring professional services;
Casenoun
the quantity contained in a case
Casenoun
a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
Casenoun
a specific state of mind that is temporary;
Casenoun
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
Casenoun
the housing or outer covering of something;
Casenoun
a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
Casenoun
an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
Casenoun
the enclosing frame around a door or window opening;
Casenoun
bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;
Caseverb
look over, usually with the intention to rob;
Caseverb
enclose in, or as if in, a case;
Casenoun
an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring
Casenoun
the situation affecting or relating to a particular person or thing
Casenoun
an incident or set of circumstances under official investigation by the police
Casenoun
an instance of a disease, injury, or problem
Casenoun
a person or their particular problem requiring or receiving medical or welfare attention
Casenoun
a person whose situation is regarded as pitiable or as having no chance of improvement
Casenoun
an amusing or eccentric person.
Casenoun
a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law
Casenoun
a set of facts or arguments supporting one side in a legal case
Casenoun
a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or controversy
Casenoun
an agreed summary of the facts relating to a legal case, drawn up for review or decision on a point of law by a higher court.
Casenoun
any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence
Casenoun
a container designed to hold or protect something
Casenoun
the outer protective covering of a natural or manufactured object
Casenoun
an item of luggage; a suitcase.
Casenoun
a box containing twelve bottles of wine or other drink, sold as a unit
Casenoun
each of the two forms, capital or minuscule, in which a letter of the alphabet may be written or printed.
Caseverb
surround in a material or substance
Caseverb
enclose in a protective container
Caseverb
reconnoitre (a place) before carrying out a robbery
