lower case
noun[U]
publishingspecialized(alsolower-case,lowercase)uk/ˌləʊ.əˈkeɪs/us/ˌloʊ.ɚˈkeɪs/lettersof thealphabetthat are not written ascapitalletters, forexamplea, b, c:
小写字母Type thecommandsinlowercase.
Some of thesevarietiesarecommonlyspelledwith lower-case.
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upper casenounmainlyUK
- Note that thetextismostlyinlowercase.
- Thedefaultpasswordisadmin(all in lower-case).
- Search-and-replaceproceduresmay or may not besensitiveto uppercase and lowercase.
Punctuation
- abbreviated
- accent
- acute
- apostrophe
- at sign
- block capitals
- caron
- cedilla
- comma
- dash
- diacritical
- double prime
- round brackets
- semicolon
- small cap
- small capitals
- solidus
- square brackets
- stroke
- unbracketed
lower case
adjective
publishingspecialized(alsolower-case,lowercase)uk/ˌləʊ.əˈkeɪs/us/ˌloʊ.ɚˈkeɪs/(oflettersof thealphabet) not written ascapitalletters:
You may use either uppercase or lower-caseletters.
Capitalize a fewletters, whileleavingtherestlowercase.
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upper caseadjectivemainlyUK
- The company'snameis insmall,whitelower-caseletterson ablackbackground.
- Sheprefershernamelowercase.
- If youwantedtomatchboth upper- and lower-casevowels, you could write: [aeiouAEIOU]
Lettering & alphabets
- ABC
- all caps
- alphabet
- alphabetically
- ascender
- Braillist
- camel case
- cuneiform
- hieroglyphics
- initial
- penmanship
- phonetic
- pictogram
- pictograph
- pinyin
- roman
- Roman alphabet
- shorthand
- upper case
- vowel