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Uppercase

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Written in upper case; capital. not-comparable
"In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart."

Adjective

1
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case wordnet

Noun

1
Alternative form of upper case. alt-of, alternative
2
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis wordnet

Verb

1
To convert (text) to upper case. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From upper + case.

Etymology 2

From upper + case.

Etymology 3

From upper + case.

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