lowercase

noun
/ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/US/ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/UK

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.

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of lower case.

  2. In lower case.

  3. To convert (text) to lower case.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lowercase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA