a case in point

US pronunciation

American sounda case in point

acaseinpoint

Syllables: 4 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

a - case - in - point -> a case in point

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] ဆွေးနွေးသည့်ကိစ္စနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် သာဓက။

Full entry

case¹ /keÇs/ n

၁။ [C] အခြေအနေ။ ကိစ္စ။
The company only dismisses its employees in cases of gross misconduct. ❍ It's a clear case of blackmail! ❍ It's a classic case (ie a very typical case) of bad management.
၂။ the case [ sing] အကြောင်း။
Is it the case (ie Is it true) that the company's sales have dropped? ❍ If that is the case (ie If the situation is as stated), you will have to work much harder.
၃။ [ C usu sing ] ကိစ္စ။ In your case, we are prepared to be lenient. ❍ I cannot make an exception in your case (ie for you and not for others).
၄။ [ C] အမှု။ ပြစ်မှု။ a murder case/a case of murder.
၅။ [ C] (က) အမှုအခင်း။ The case will be heard in court next week. ❍ When does your case come before the court?
(ခ) ( usu sing ) အထောက်အထား။ ရပ်တည်ချက်။ the case for the defence/prosecution ❍ the case for/against the abolition of the death penalty. ❍ You have a very strong case.
၆။ [ C] ရောဂါ။ ဝေဒနာ။ a case of typhoid ❍ Cases of smallpox are becoming rare.
၇။ [C] လူနာ။ a hopeless case (ie a sick person who cannot be cured).
၈။ [U, C] (grammar ) ကာရက။ the nominative case ❍ the accusative case ❍ Latin nouns have case, number and gender.
❏ case history n လူတစ်ယောက်၏ အတိတ်အဖြစ်အပျက်။ ရောဂါမှတ်တမ်း။
❏ a case in point [IDM ] ဆွေးနွေးသည့်ကိစ္စနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် သာဓက။
❏ case-law n [U] ချမှတ်ခဲ့သော စီရင်ချက်များကို အခြေခံသော ဥပဒေ။ Compare COMMON LAW, STATUTE LAW See also TEST CASE
❏ case-load n ဆရာဝန်တစ်ဦး ကုသနေသောလူနာများ။ လူမှု ဝန်ထမ်းတစ်ဦး တာဝန်ယူသည့်သူများ။
❏ as the case may be [IDM ] အကြောင်းအားလျော်စွာ။
There may be an announcement about this tomorrow—or not, as the case may be.
❏ case-study n ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တစ်ဦး၊ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တစ်စု၏ ကာလအပိုင်း အခြား တစ်ခုအတွင်း တိုးတက်မှုလေ့လာချက်။
❏ in any case [IDM ] ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ ဘာပဲဖြစ်ခဲ့ဖြစ်ခဲ့။ မည် သို့ဆိုစေ။
There's no point complaining about the hotel room—we'll be leaving tomorrow in any case.
❏ (just) in case (…) [IDM ] လိုရမည်ရ။ It may rain—you'd better take an umbrella (just) in case (it does).
❏ in case of sth [IDM ] ဖြစ်လာခဲ့လျှင်။ In case of fire, ring the alarm bell.
❏ in that case [IDM ] ထိုကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်ခဲ့လျှင်။ ဒါဆိုရင်။ You don't like your job? In that case why don't you leave?
❏ make out a case (for sth) [IDM ] ထောက်ခံချက်ပေး သည်။
The report makes out a strong case for increased spending on libraries.

case² /keÇs/ n

၁။ (က) (often in compounds)
သေတ္တာ။ အိတ်။ ဘူး။
a jewellery case ❍ a pencil case ❍ a packing-case (ie a large wooden box for packing goods in) ❍ Exhibits in museums are often displayed in glass cases.
(ခ) ပစ္စည်း နှင့်တကွသော သေတ္တာ၊ အိတ်၊ ဘူး။ a case (ie 12 bottles) of champagne.
၂။ ခရီးဆောင် လက်ဆွဲသေတ္တာ။
Could you carry my case for me?
❏ case the joint [IDM ] (sl ) ဓားပြတိုက်မည့်နေရာကို ကြို တင်လေ့လာသည်။
❏ casing n [U, C] အဖုံးအအုပ်။ အခွံ။
wrapped in rubber casing.

More examples

[case of] : A serious case of nerves
[case of] : A bad case of food poisoning
He treated several cases of severe sunburn.
I think we can make an exception in your case.
[be the case] : This was the case in the past, but now life is different.
[if that’s the case] : If that’s the case, I’m not surprised he was angry.
[it is the case that] : Isn’t it the case that they’re afraid of change?
[it’s a case of] : It really is a case of ‘no news is good news’.
[in that case] : ‘I don’t need it tonight.’ ‘In that case, I’ll keep it until tomorrow.’
[in which case] : They can still agree to our conditions, in which case the bombing will stop.
[as is the case] : Often, as is the case for these families, there is no other source of support.
A civil/criminal case
The case involved charges of police corruption.
[a murder/rape/libel case] : A number of libel cases were taken to the Court of Appeal.
[case against] : He was confident the case against him would be dropped.
[win/lose a case] : He would do anything to win a case.
At least a dozen officers are investigating the murder case.
[the case for the prosecution/the defence] : Mr Scott informed the judge that he had completed the case for the prosecution.
[have a case] : The lawyers told me I didn’t have a case.
This strengthens the case of those who argue that the UK should have a Bill of Rights.
[case for/against] : There is a strong case for government intervention.
[state your case] : She was being offered a chance to state her case.
[make (out) a case for something] : Calvin makes a good case for this unpopular policy in his article.
A case can be made for reducing taxes right now.

Synonyms

container, box, holder, casing, glasses case, crate, pencil case, folder, a case in point, action, argument, assignment, attaché case, bag, baggage, basis, basket, bin, briefcase, cabinet, caddy, caisson, canister, canvass, capsule, carrycase, carton, cartridge, case history, casket, cause, chamber, chassis, check out, check over, check up, chest, circumstance, claim, coffer, commission, compact, conditions, context, contingency, court case, cover, covering, crating, crib, crisis, defense, dilemma, dispute, drawer, envelope, event, eventuality, evidence, examine, example, exemplification, fact, grip, illustration, incident, indictment, inspect, instance, integument, issue, item, jacket, job, justification, lawsuit, legal action, litigation, occasion, occurrence, overnight case, paradigm, petition, plight, pod, position, predicament, problem, proceedings, process, project, proof, quandary, rationale, reason, receptacle, representative, safe, sample, sampling, scabbard, scrutinize, sheath, shell, shelling, situation, specimen, state, status, study, suit, suitcase, task, travel case, tray, trial, trunk, view, wallet, weekend case, wrapper, wrapping

Antonyms

certainty, forget, good fortune, ignore, neglect, solution

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