uppercase
uppercase
Definition
upper·case (up′ər kās′; for n. and adj. also up′ər kās′)
noun
capital-letter type used in printing, as distinguished from small letters (lowercase)
Etymology: from their being kept in the upper of two cases of type
adjective
designating, of, or in uppercase
transitive verb -·cased′, -·cas′·ing
to print in or change to uppercase
uppercase
Usage Examples
Object
- letter: You should have found that the text from Textbox1 gets converted to uppercase letters.
- character: This is based upon the allowable characters in eXtensible Markup Language ( XML ) tag names, but restricted further to only uppercase characters.
Converse of object
- use: You can use either UPPERCASE or lowercase letters. top How long should I spend on the course at any one time?
Modifies a noun
- letter: DO NOT post topics titles or posts completely in uppercase letters.
- character: The entry name consists of | uppercase alphanumeric characters.
- version: How can you print out the uppercase version of " Hello, World!
- name: Having tested the procedure above with both an uppercase folder name and a lower case one, neither worked.
- form: On the other hand, if a user searches for " web " many engines will search for it in lowercase and uppercase forms.
- O: Do not use the lowercase l for 1 ( one ) or the uppercase O for 0 ( zero ).
Modifying Another Word
- in: This tag name is very important and should always be in uppercase.
- all: At that time, and throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, FORTRAN was an all uppercase language.
- only: If the terminal generates only uppercase letters, UNIX accommodates it by printing everything in uppercase letters.
Infinitive complement
- lowercase: In this case we are translating uppercase to lowercase, and setting a new variable called fname to the result.
Used with adjective complement
Browse dictionary entries near uppercase
- Upper Volta
- Upper Peninsula
- upper house
- upper hand
- upper crust
- upper class
- Upper Canada
- upper bound
- upper
- upon someone's head
- upperclassman
- uppercut
- uppermost
- uppish
- uppity
- Uppsala
- upraise
- uprear
- upright
- upright bass
