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Casing   /kˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Casing

noun
1.
The housing or outer covering of something.  Synonyms: case, shell.
2.
The outermost covering of a pneumatic tire.
3.
The enclosing frame around a door or window opening.  Synonym: case.



Case

verb
(past & past part. cased; pres. part. casing)
1.
Look over, usually with the intention to rob.
2.
Enclose in, or as if in, a case.  Synonyms: encase, incase.



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"Casing" Quotes from Famous Books



... So far as the pillars are concerned I know of no other time when this "casing" could have been done; and the architecture in Hollar's prints, as ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul - An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch • Arthur Dimock

... sheep home early and made arrangements for the burial by measuring the outer casing of Brummy and digging a hole according to ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... a seven-pointed star, four feet across. And was the ripped, transparent casing of its body and limbs another version of a vacuum armor? The material resembled stellene. As in an Archer, there were metal details, mechanical, ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... own person, next, it softly folded him in, casing his inner being with glory and this crowding sense of beauty. This increased manifestation of psychic activity reached down into the very core of himself, like invisible fingers playing upon an instrument. Notes—powers—in ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood

... ambling into the coulee, rapped perfunctorily upon the door-casing, and entered the kitchen as one who feels perfectly at home, and sure of his welcome; as was not unfitting, considering the fact that he had "chored around" for Val during the ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower


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