to capitalize
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3.0
- verb
- /ˈkæpɪtəˌlaɪz/
- US
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- Make sure you capitalize identity and plot, please, and also give me credit in the footnote of your notes for that phrase.
- capitalize a word
- capitalize the first letter
I mean, her punctuation tells me that she's she doesn't capitalize Jimmy Fallon.
- I mean, her punctuation tells me that she's she doesn't capitalize Jimmy Fallon.
- So why are you bringing that up and why is it capitalized?
- Word's autocorrect function, which capitalizes Gnostic.
- If you just Google MTHFR, make sure you capitalize it, by the way, you'll find yourself on some really colorful websites.
- The Associated Press is now capitalizing the word black when it is used in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense.
- It's going to be absolutely incredible with both of those words capitalized a in absolutely and I an incredible capital.
Examples
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Ramona found one mistake that she suggested fixing: capitalize a word.
Academic text (2014) -
Spelling outcomes were measured by students' correct spelling of words and the percent of words capitalized correctly.
Academic text (2013) -
Underline and capitalize the "us."
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When writing proper nouns, you capitalize the first letter.
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For the child having difficulty deciding which words should or should not be capitalized, the approach described below should prove helpful.
Academic text (1990) -
Sylvie capitalized every noun, and Al capitalized nothing at all.
Fiction book (1990) -
1920: The New York Times announces that the "N" in Negro would hereafter be capitalized.
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In her essay, she was careful to capitalize all the necessary nouns and titles to make her writing clear.
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To adhere to the style guide, you must capitalize the first letter of each sentence.
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The teacher reminded the students to capitalize proper nouns when writing their stories.
How Capitalized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Capitalize comes from capital, from Latin caput 'head', because a capital letter is like the 'head' or big letter of a word, so to capitalize a letter is to make it the 'head' or big form of that letter.