lowercase — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. In lower case.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   lowercasedminuscule

   Examples

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   At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would use lowercase eszett and substitute “SZ” for uppercase instances of the letter, until they could figure out a proper design for it.

Verb

1. To convert (text) to lower case.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

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   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)

   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.

Adjective

1. relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case

   Antonyms

   uppercase

   Examples

   lowercase letters: a and b and c etc.

Noun

1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

   Synonyms

   small letterlower-case letterminuscule

   Antonyms

   uppercase

   Broader terms

   charactergraphgraphemegraphic symbol