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upper·case (upər 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

  • use: Examples using uppercase as a differentiating marker - entry Return ( proper noun ) in UD.
  • appear: Once the bootstrap code is updated, the lowercase Bootstrap versions ( a-d ) will appear as uppercase ( A-D ).