lowercase
noun
- American band
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/ / /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/ / /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/
adj
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.
- In lower case.
noun
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.
- Alternative form of lower case.
verb
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.
- To convert (text) to lower case.
“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.”