Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An outer cover: a shell casing; a tire casing.
- n. The frame or framework for a window or door.
- n. A metal pipe or tube used as a lining for a water, oil, or gas well.
- n. A membranous case, often made of animal intestine, used to contain sausage or other processed meat.
- n. A narrow passage for a rod or cord, as in a curtain or the waistband of a garment, made by folding over a small strip of fabric at its edge along its width and sewing it in place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process expressed by the verb case. Specifically—
- n. A case; a covering; an inclosure. Specifically—
- n. The process of putting tobacco leaf into the desired ‘case’ or condition, namely by moistening, and adding the ingredients used to give flavor, etc. See case, n., 9.
Wiktionary
- n. That which encloses or encases.
- n. uncountable, computing The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
- v. present participle of case.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.
- n. An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.
- n. An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the housing or outer covering of something
- n. the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire
- n. the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
Examples
“Remembering some of the things Uncle Gib had said years ago in his unregenerate days when Lance was a child, he thought of the term casing the joint, and he thought of observing entrances and exits, ways of getting in and out.”
“The use of zebu intestine as a casing is actually a child of mass retailing and the need of supermarkets for cervelas that were alike in color, size and flavor.”
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“FBI AGENT: Ali Mohammed (ph) had done what they call casing of the American Embassy in Nairobi in December of 1993.”
“DANIEL COLEMAN, FORMER FBI AGENT: Ali Mohammed had done what they call casing of the American Embassy in Nairobi in December of 1993, a five-year span between casing and operation.”
“DAN COLEMAN, FORMER FBI AGENT: Ali Mohammed had done what they call casing of the American embassy in Nairobi in December of 1993, a five year span between casing and operation.”
“DAN COLEMAN, FORMER FBI AGENT: Ali Mohammed had done what they call casing of the American embassy in Nairobi in December of 1993, a five-year span between casing and operation.”
“Up on the casing is a three or four inch gun, which in the case of a submarine is only the "secondary" armament.”
“The empty shell casing from a round fired over Michael's body before it was repatriated is positioned close by.”
The Guardian: 'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
““Little Big Man” includes deer antlers and what looks like the casing from a vintage radio.”
“Slice the chorizo lengthwise, peel off the thin casing, and chop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘casing’.
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SEDE - technology+material+support
storage, smokeless, sensor, sandbag, resources, repeating, receiver, pellet, logistics, marker, interceptor, locator and 302 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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TECH - department store terms
lift, flask, datum, cater, absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration and 231 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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SEDE - weapons
ammunition, anti-aircraft mac..., anti-vehicle mine, automatic machine..., ballistic missile..., bazooka, biological weapons, booby trap, bunker-busting bomb, chemical weapons, cluster bomb, light battleship and 218 more...
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Hydrocarbon Energy Exploration/Extrac...
A list of terms encountered in the jargon of hydrocarbon exploration, mapping, and extraction.
hydrofracking, hydraulic fracturing, drilling, borehole, rig, formation, shale, coal, marl, seismic, horizontal drilling, unconventional ga... and 77 more...
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OvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvolo
Decorative trims and moldings and their elements, from room-scale to whole-building-scale, including, of course, ovolo.
egg and dart, echinus, drip cap, fluting fillet, rosette, scotia, screen molding, picture rail, chair rail, quarter-round, crown molding, bandelet and 56 more...
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RoughOctober's list
nature, steampunk, weather, colors, and other assorted (sometimes moody) words
beetle, barn, beacon, water, engine, typhoon, doldrums, leaves, mica, steam, bowgrace, leaf and 121 more...
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Glassmaking terms
avolio, aeolipile, rhyton, came, acid etching, acid stamping, twist, air twist, annealing, at-the-fire, glory hole, glazier and 67 more...
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reesetee In glassmaking, the application of a layer of glass over a layer of contrasting color. The gaffer either gathers one layer over another gather, or inflates a gob of hot glass inside a preformed blank of another color. The two components adhere and are inflated together (sometimes with frequent reheating) until they have the desired form. Nov 8, 2007