lowercasify

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

lower case +‎ -ify

Verb[edit]

lowercasify (third-person singular simple present lowercasifies, present participle lowercasifying, simple past and past participle lowercasified)

  1. (informal, computing) To make lower case.
    • 1984 September 15, John Woods, “Local site "x"”, in net.news.newsite (Usenet):
      Well, actually, my host is REALLY called "X", but I've already been advised to lowercasify it.
    • 2000 November 18, Matti Aarnio, “ORBS Problem”, in muc.lists.zmailer (Usenet):
      To think of it, propably I need to a) add a section about testing into smtpserver(8) man-page, and also b) lowercasify the lookup key of "aliases".
    • 2006 July 9, Keith F. Lynch, “Momentarily verbal (was Re: Talking of old jokes)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
      Press it again (or press it when there's already a period there) and it will remove any punctuation and spaces, insert a single space, and lowercasify the following word (unless it's a word that should always be capitalized)

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