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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, printed, or formatted in capital letters.
- transitive verb To put (type or text) in uppercase letters.
- transitive verb To begin (a word) with an uppercase letter.
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- adjective written in
upper case ;capital - noun Alternative spelling of
upper case .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- adjective relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
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