lowercase
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See also: lower-case and lower case
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (noun): lower case
- (adjective and adverb): lower-case
Etymology[edit]
From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to make its syntactical function clearer/simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lowercase (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of lower case
Adjective[edit]
lowercase (not comparable)
- in lower case
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in lower case
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Verb[edit]
lowercase (third-person singular simple present lowercases, present participle lowercasing, simple past and past participle lowercased)
- (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.
- 1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
- Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)
- 2000, Tom Miller, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 216:
- I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.