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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
casing
noun
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▪ But the bomb casings and high explosive charges in nuclear weapons can not withstand fire and explosive shock.
▪ His armour has become a bandage as stiff as the casing of a chrysalis.
▪ Little boys dove in to grab the brass shell casings.
▪ Machine a wide casing along the top of each length and thread on to wire or a pole.
▪ The electrical components should be double insulated for maximum safety and the outer casing made from an ultra violet stabilised material.
▪ The height of the casing limits the L range to three horizontal full-length 16-bit slots, the same as its predecessor.
▪ The spent casings were hitting the back of me, and the concussion was pushing my head down.
▪ The turbine is sealed off behind a tasteful stained wood casing with leaded windows lit from behind.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casing

Case \Case\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cased; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.]

  1. 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.
    --Prescott.

  2. To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]

Casing

Cash \Cash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Casing.] To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money; as, cash a note or an order.

Casing

Casing \Cas"ing\, n.

  1. The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

  2. An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.

  3. An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n.,

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
casing

1570s, "action of fitting with a case," verbal noun from case (v.). Meaning "a covering" is from 1839.

Wiktionary
casing

n. 1 That which encloses or encases. 2 (context uncountable computing English) The collective states of upper and lower case letters. vb. (present participle of case English)

WordNet
casing
  1. n. the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell, case]

  2. the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire

  3. the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" [syn: case]

Wikipedia
Casing (sausage)

Casing, sausage casing, or sausage skin is the material that encloses the filling of a sausage. Casings are divided into two categories, natural and artificial. Artificial casings, such as collagen, cellulose, plastic, and extruded casings, are relatively new to the field, mainly borne of market demand during the technological advances of the early 20th century.

Casing

Casing may refer to an enclosing shell, tube, or surrounding material. It may also refer to:

  • Cartridge (firearms), shell enclosing the explosive propellant in ammunition
  • Casing (borehole), metal tube used during the drilling of a well
  • Casing (molding), decorative molding surrounding door or window openings
  • Casing (sausage), thin covering holding the food contents of sausage
  • Casing (submarine), platform attached to the upper side of a submersible vehicle
  • Casing stone, smooth stone covering for a structure such as those on the Giza Necropolis
  • Casing (mycology), top layer of soil used during the fruiting stage in mycological cultivation
  • Computer case, the enclosure that contains most of the components of a computer
  • Letter case, the distinction between upper and lowercase letters in typography
  • Reconnaissance, also known as scouting or casing, a location to potentially commit a robbery
Casing (borehole)

Casing is large diameter pipe that is assembled and inserted into a recently drilled section of a borehole and typically held into place with cement.

Casing (submarine)

The casing of a submarine is a light metal structure, usually incorporating a deck, built over the upper surface of the vessel's pressure hull.

The pressure hull of a submarine is usually cylindrical and possesses a low freeboard when in the water, which makes walking on the hull when on the surface dangerous in high seas or rough weather. The casing provides a flat and therefore safer platform for personnel to walk on.

The casing is outside the pressure hull and free-flooding so is usually perforated with numerous holes, allowing water to enter and trapped air to escape easily, eliminating any buoyancy contributed by the casing and allowing the submarine to submerge with as little delay as possible.

Casings have been eliminated since the end of World War II as the flow of water through the numerous flood-holes creates noise that may be detected by an enemy using passive sonar, as well as causing hydrodynamic drag.

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Usage examples of "casing".

True andouille is stuffed into the beef middle casing which makes the sausage approximately one and a half inches in diameter.

In parts of Germany, where some say andouille originated, the sausage was made with all remaining intestines and casings pulled through a larger casing, seasoned and smoked.

Anji spotted several televisions flickering amidst the mess, each one an old valve job with a Bakelite casing and bulging screen.

Finally, he fused a short thread of axon between two lengths of dendron, then chortled in delight as an eyestalk hanging from the front of the casing rose and focused on Jaina.

Their hov engine casing had cracked, pouring hot plasma into the interior.

The iconostasis of a large church may be hung with a great many icons, large and small, often in gold or silver casings.

Over this regalia he battened an armor of ridged lamellae in which he swaggered for half a day until the heat became unbearable and, rather irresponsibly, he abandoned his outer casing under a tree like some drab cicada reaching adulthood.

My mind-tongue stroked and stroked it with instinctive curiosity, like leukocytes casing a virus, something hard and foreign patching my mind.

It was highly improbable that Napper could have already arrived, unless the fellow had been casing the hotel with a pineapple on his hip, for The Shadow had made a short, quick trip from the Cafe Picaroon.

Jirrl were alternating use of the small lathe, truing the rocket heads and waiting for Justen and Nicos to form more casings.

Under the frail casing of the skin, such a violence and potency of untapped Power raged that it should have burned her out from within.

He saw that the metal casing which held it was wired for power, with cables snaking down the insides of the dome and disappearing from sight.

Darcy watched a forlorn family prise open a badly contorted marsupium shell with deep scorch marks on the oyster-coloured casing.

Each tiny Sen-Sen-sized microchip was housed in a rectangular casing about an inch long.

They had replaced his recessed photoreceptors with extras from the repair kit Lando had included in the equipment pod, but several thud bugs had penetrated deep inside the skull casing, smashing circuit boards and detection mediums beyond all hope of repair.