lowercase

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See also: lower-case and lower case

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Particularly: “how do we do this? Something like See lower case, or explain why there is a different spelling for the adjective? And why the dash is used sometimes?”

Pronunciation

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Noun

lowercase (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of lower case

Adjective

lowercase (not comparable)

  1. in lower case

Translations

Verb

lowercase (third-person singular simple present lowercases, present participle lowercasing, simple past and past participle lowercased)

  1. (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.