Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, printed, or formatted in lowercase letters.
- v. To put (type or text) in lowercase letters.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In printing, pertaining to or belonging in the lower case (see case, n., 6): as, the lower-case boxes; lower-case type or letters. Usually abbreviated lowercase
- n. In printing, the kind of type that is placed in the boxes of the lower case (see case, 6); small letters collectively, as opposed to capitals: as, roman or italic lower-case; the title-words of this dictionary are set in condensed antique lower-case (with capital initials when these are ordinarily used).
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of lower case.
- adj. in lower case
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Print.) Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. Contrasted with
uppercase . See the Note under 1st case, n., 3.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
- n. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
Examples
“THIS time they want the email in lowercase (makes sense).”
“Archy the cockroach wrote his name in lowercase letters because he couldn't maneuver the shift bar of Don's typewriter.”
“Also — I don’t know if this is the case here — I have some recollection of having once read about some words like “nazi” deliberately being used in lowercase to show disrespect, so even if “Quisling” were grammatically correct, “quisling” would be preferred?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sabotage! Or How “Dilbert” Won The War
“In this example, the about: legacy-compat must be in lowercase.”
“Fub says: xx: Fub the word was consciously created by the London Times, so it entered the lexicon in lowercase.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sabotage! Or How “Dilbert” Won The War
“Fub the word was consciously created by the London Times, so it entered the lexicon in lowercase.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sabotage! Or How “Dilbert” Won The War
“It will reformat the text you've highlighted so that each word starts with a capital letter and the rest of the letters are in lowercase.”
“So here are five pieces of advice for intellectuals from steve fuller‘s book the intellectual, and yes, the lowercase is his, or at least his publisher’s.”
“The Suprematist concept seemed somehow related to the recent so-called lowercase and microsound movements, which, in my opinion, have spent a lot of energy creating their own simple language with which to communicate bold ideas.”
“I imagine you entered the password lowercase, and then told the browser to save it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lowercase’.
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Cases of cases
Inspired by the Staircase bookcase.
staircase, bookcase, basket case, lowercase, uppercase, any case, nominative case, subjective case, oblique case, accusative case, dative case, cold case and 65 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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yagermadden's initial list
just trying it out, you know.
super, ambient, drone, lowercase, victory, attitude, marketing
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Word Guidelines for Wordie
A set of rules I try to use for adding words to the site. Details for each rule are found in the first comment.
These rules are entirely unofficial! They are my own, and you can make gui...unpunctuated, unligatured, unaccented, lowercase, spelling, basic, exists
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Letterscape
heavy metal umlaut, scapse, minsk, mtavruli, smallcaps, mkhedruli, romanette, lowercase, uppercase, ligature
Tweets
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