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uppercase

adj

Etymology

From upper + case.

  1. derived from cāsus — “a falling, a fall; accident, event, occurrence; occasion, opportunity; noun case”
  2. derived from cas — “an event”
  3. inherited from cas
  4. formed as uppercase — “upper + case”

Definitions

  1. Written in upper case

    Written in upper case; capital.

    • 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.

  2. Alternative form of upper case.

  3. To convert (text) to upper case.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uppercase. 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