lower-case letter
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- noun
- /ˈloʊərˌkeɪs ˈlɛtər/
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letra minúscula
- After that, it's okay to use regular upper and lower case letters.
- upper- and lower-case letters
- lower-case letters and uppercase letters
- upper and lower-case letters
So I went to the craft store and I just wanted to buy like pre made stencils and I literally couldn't find a single stencil pack that had lower case letters included.
- So I went to the craft store and I just wanted to buy like pre made stencils and I literally couldn't find a single stencil pack that had lower case letters included.
Examples
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LNF involves presenting children with a page of uppercase and lowercase letters and asking them to name as many letters as they can in 1 minute.
Academic text (2015) -
To make your password stronger, use upper and lower case letters, numbers, and the following symbols!
Blog text (1) -
For alphabet knowledge, the upper and lower case letters
Academic text (2015) -
For each, the child is shown a sheet with either all of the uppercase letters or all of the lowercase letters presented in random order.
Academic text (2015) -
By contrast, the word deaf, beginning with a lowercase letter, is used to describe the medical or physiological condition of hearing loss or deafness.
Academic text (2014) -
The LNF subtest measures a student's ability to rapidly name upper- and lowercase letters presented in a random sequence in 1 min.
Academic text (2015) -
The child was presented with three lowercase letters printed in 18-point Courier font and asked to mark the letter that represented the stimulus.
Academic text (2006) -
One word of caution: when typing URLs, the case structure—the use of upper and lower case letters—must be honored.
Academic text (1995) -
The LNF subtest of the DIBELS (Good & Kaminski, 2002) assesses fluency in naming upper- and lowercase letters in 1 min.
Academic text (2013) -
Please write your name using all lower-case letters for the form.
Synonyms
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The small letters of the alphabet, not capital letters
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A letter that is not a capital letter
A small letter used instead of a capital letter
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
lower-case + letter
The meaning 'a letter in the smaller form' is directly derived from combining 'lower-case' (indicating the small/uncapitalized form) with 'letter' (a written symbol), so the overall sense is compositional. This contrast with 'capital/upper-case' is cross-linguistically common and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The term lower-case letter comes from old printing shops. Printers kept the small letters in a box called the lower case and the big letters in a box above, so lower-case letter came to mean the 'small form' of a letter.