Lowercase
//ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of lower case. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
- 2 the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case wordnet
Verb
- 1 To convert (text) to lower case. transitive
"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)"
Adjective
- 1 In lower case. not-comparable
Adjective
- 1 relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case wordnet
Example
More examples"His eights looked like lowercase Gs."
Etymology
From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
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