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Case vs. Instance — What's the Difference?

Case vs. Instance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Case and Instance

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Case

An instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring
A case of mistaken identity
In many cases farmers do have a deep feeling for their land

Instance

An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point.

Case

An instance of a disease, injury, or problem
200,000 cases of hepatitis B

Instance

A case or an occurrence
In all such instances, let conscience be your guide.

Case

A legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law
A libel case
A former employee brought the case against the council
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Instance

A step in a process or series of events
You should apply in the first instance to the personnel manager.

Case

Any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence
The accusative case

Instance

A suggestion or request
Called at the instance of his attorney.

Case

A container designed to hold or protect something
A silver cigarette case

Instance

(Archaic) Urgent solicitation or entreaty.

Case

Each of the two forms, capital or minuscule, in which a letter of the alphabet may be written or printed.

Instance

To offer as an example; cite
"I assured her that I was interested in garbage, and instanced the fact that I had once been a garbage inspector myself" (Jane Addams).

Case

Surround in a material or substance
The towers are of steel cased in granite

Instance

To demonstrate or show by an example; exemplify
"how absurd it often is to cite a single line from ... a poem for the purpose of instancing the perfection or imperfection of the line's rhythm" (Edgar Allan Poe).

Case

Reconnoitre (a place) before carrying out a robbery
I was casing the joint

Instance

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

Case

An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category
A case of mistaken identity.

Instance

(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

Case

An occurrence of a disease or disorder
A mild case of flu.

Instance

(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.

Case

A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation
It may rain, in which case the hike will be canceled.

Instance

(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

Case

Actual fact; reality
We suspected the walls were hollow, and this proved to be the case.

Instance

Occasion; order of occurrence.

Case

A question or problem; a matter
It is simply a case of honor.

Instance

A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.

Case

A situation that requires investigation, especially by a formal or official body.

Instance

One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

Case

An action or a suit or just grounds for an action.

Instance

(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.

Case

The facts or evidence offered in support of a claim.

Instance

(massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.

Case

A set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument
Presented a good case for changing the law.

Instance

(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.

Case

A person being assisted, treated, or studied, as by a physician, lawyer, or social worker.

Instance

(Internet) An independent server on the decentralised social networking platform Mastodon.

Case

(Informal) A peculiar or eccentric person; a character.

Instance

(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite

Case

In traditional grammar, a distinct form of a noun, pronoun, or modifier that is used to express one or more particular syntactic relationships to other words in a sentence.

Instance

(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

Case

Case In some varieties of generative grammar, the thematic or semantic role of a noun phrase as represented abstractly but not necessarily indicated overtly in surface structure. In such frameworks, nouns in English have Case even in the absence of inflectional case endings.

Instance

The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Undertook at her instance to restore them.

Case

A container; a receptacle
A jewelry case.
Meat-filled cases of dough.

Instance

That which is instant or urgent; motive.
The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Case

A container with its contents.

Instance

Occasion; order of occurrence.
These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance.

Case

A decorative or protective covering or cover.

Instance

That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example; as, we could find no instance of poisoning in the town within the past year.
Most remarkable instances of suffering.

Case

A set or pair
A case of pistols.

Instance

A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

Case

The frame or framework of a window, door, or stairway.

Instance

To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
I shall not instance an abstruse author.

Case

The surface or outer layer of a metal alloy.

Instance

To give an example.
This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but in families too.

Case

A shallow compartmented tray for storing type or type matrices.

Instance

An occurrence of something;
It was a case of bad judgment
Another instance occurred yesterday
But there is always the famous example of the Smiths

Case

The form of a written, printed, or keyed letter that distinguishes it as being lowercase or uppercase
Typed the password using the wrong case.

Instance

An item of information that is representative of a type;
This patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
There is an example on page 10

Case

To put into or cover with a case; encase.

Instance

Clarify by giving an example of

Case

(Slang) To examine carefully, as in planning a crime
Cased the bank before robbing it.

Case

An actual event, situation, or fact.
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]

Case

A given condition or state.

Case

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
It was one of the detective's easiest cases.
Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.
The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.

Case

(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

Case

(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

Case

(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.
Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

Case

Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
Latin is a language that employs case.

Case

(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
There were another five cases reported overnight.

Case

(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

Case

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

Case

A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A case for spectacles; the case of a watch

Case

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

Case

An enclosing frame or casing.
A door case; a window case

Case

A suitcase.

Case

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

Case

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

Case

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).

Case

The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

Case

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

Case

(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

Case

(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

Case

A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.

Case

A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

Case

A counterfeit crown five-shilling coin.

Case

(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases

Case

(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

Case

(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

Case

To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

Case

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
He drew the case eight!

Case

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.

Case

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

Case

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

Case

An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

Case

A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Case

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
By aventure, or sort, or cas.

Case

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.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
If the case of the man be so with his wife.
And when a lady's in the caseYou know all other things give place.
You think this madness but a common case.
I am in case to justle a constable,

Case

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.

Case

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.
Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.
Not one case in the reports of our courts.

Case

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.
Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative.

Case

To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

Case

To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.

Case

To propose hypothetical cases.

Case

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
The family brought suit against the landlord

Case

An occurrence of something;
It was a case of bad judgment
Another instance occurred yesterday
But there is always the famous example of the Smiths

Case

A special set of circumstances;
In that event, the first possibility is excluded
It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled

Case

A problem requiring investigation;
Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir

Case

The actual state of things;
That was not the case

Case

A statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument;
He stated his case clearly

Case

A portable container for carrying several objects;
The musicians left their instrument cases backstage

Case

A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;
The subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities

Case

A person requiring professional services;
A typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor

Case

The quantity contained in a case

Case

A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

Case

A specific state of mind that is temporary;
A case of the jitters

Case

Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

Case

The housing or outer covering of something;
The clock has a walnut case

Case

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
A real character
A strange character
A friendly eccentric
The capable type
A mental case

Case

An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part

Case

The enclosing frame around a door or window opening;
The casings had rotted away and had to be replaced

Case

Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;
The burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase

Case

Look over, usually with the intention to rob;
They men cased the housed

Case

Enclose in, or as if in, a case;
My feet were encased in mud

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