lowercase

alternative lower case · alternative lower-case

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of lower case.

alternative lower case · alternative lower-case

1. not comparableIn lower case.

   At a 1903 typography conference, attendees decided that they would use lowercase eszett and substitute “SZ” for uppercase instances of the letter, until they could figure out a proper design for it.

   2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2019

   Synonyms: lowercased, minuscule

present singular third person lowercases · participle present lowercasing · participle past lowercased · past lowercased · alternative lower case · alternative lower-case

1. transitiveTo convert (text) to lower case.

   I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.

   2000, Tom Miller, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 216

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   Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)

   1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5