Meanings
adjectivelower-cased (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of lowercased.
Use lower-cased letters for a.m. and p.m.: 1 a.m., 4:30 p.m., and no zeroes for zero minutes.
2014, Douglas Perret Starr, Deborah Williams Dunsford, “How and Why to Edit Copy”, in Working the Story: A Guide to Reporting and News Writing for Journalists and Public Relations Professionals, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 652 more examples
And a paper down South is reported to care nothing about spelling, so long as Negro is lower-cased.
1942 June, Joseph Landau, “Rigid Rules of Writing Hold Newspapermen in Bondage—Slaves to Style!”, in Ralph L. Peters, editor, The Quill: A Magazine for Writers, Editors, and Publishers, volume XXX, number 6, Fulton, Mo.: Sigma Delta Chi, page 3, column 2We adopted a naming convention of lower-cased titles, such as “the prince,” unless they were proper nouns (“Prince Escalus”).
2005, David Grey, Gigi Bach, “Foreword”, in Romeo & Juliet: The 1-Hour Guidebook: An Illustrated Guide for Mastering Shakespeare’s Greatest Love Story, New York, N.Y.: SparkNotes, →ISBN, page [x]
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of lower-case
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