The difference between Case and Housing

When used as nouns, case means an actual event, situation, or fact, whereas housing means the activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

Case is also verb with the meaning: to propose hypothetical cases.

Case is also adjective with the meaning: the last remaining card of a particular rank.

check bellow for the other definitions of Case and Housing

  1. Case as a noun:

    An actual event, situation, or fact.

    Examples:

    "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]"

  2. Case as a noun (now, rare):

    A given condition or state.

  3. Case as a noun:

    A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

    Examples:

    "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."

  4. Case as a noun (academia):

    An instance or event as a topic of study.

    Examples:

    "The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies."

  5. Case as a noun (legal):

    A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

  6. Case as a noun (grammar):

    A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

    Examples:

    "The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.  Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh."

  7. Case as a noun (grammar, uncountable):

    Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

    Examples:

    "Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.  Latin is a language that employs case."

  8. Case as a noun (medicine):

    An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

    Examples:

    "There were another five cases reported overnight."

  9. Case as a noun (programming):

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

  1. Case as a verb (obsolete):

    To propose hypothetical cases.

  1. Case as a noun:

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

  2. Case as a noun:

    A box, sheath, or covering generally.

    Examples:

    "a case for spectacles; the case of a watch"

  3. Case as a noun:

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

  4. Case as a noun:

    An enclosing frame or casing.

    Examples:

    "a door case; a window case"

  5. Case as a noun:

    A suitcase.

  6. Case as a noun:

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

  7. Case as a noun:

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

  8. Case as a noun (printing, historical):

    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).

  9. Case as a noun (typography, by extension):

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

  10. Case as a noun (poker slang):

    Four of a kind.

  11. Case as a noun (US):

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

  12. Case as a noun (mining):

    A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  13. Case as a noun:

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

  1. Case as an adjective (poker slang):

    The last remaining card of a particular rank.

    Examples:

    "He drew the case eight!"

  1. Case as a verb (transitive):

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

  2. Case as a verb (transitive):

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

  3. Case as a verb (transitive, informal):

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

  1. Housing as a verb:

    Examples:

    "We are housing the company's servers in Florida."

  1. Housing as a noun (uncountable):

    The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.

  2. Housing as a noun (uncountable):

    Residences, collectively.

    Examples:

    "She lives in low-income housing."

  3. Housing as a noun (countable):

    A mechanical component's container or covering.

    Examples:

    "The gears were grinding against their housing."

  4. Housing as a noun:

    A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.

  5. Housing as a noun:

    An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.

  6. Housing as a noun (architecture):

    The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.

  7. Housing as a noun:

    A niche for a statue.

  8. Housing as a noun (nautical):

    That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

  9. Housing as a noun (nautical):

    A houseline.

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