lowercase
- adjective
- /ˈloʊərkeɪs/
- Spelling activities can range from matching upper and lowercase letters (K Print Concepts CCSS) to spelling words (K-Grade 5 Conventions of Standard English CCSS).
- lowercase letters
- upper- and lowercase
- uppercase and lowercase
That is it's anxiety with a lowercase a it is not being able to sit.
- That is it's anxiety with a lowercase a it is not being able to sit.
- Uppercase L life, lowercase L lives, but not in the plural.
- So we'll do lowercase C sub one to lowercase C sub N.
- And I think that some people have uppercase T trauma and some people have lowercase T trauma.
- Well, yeah, so I do post on Twitter that my handle is at Donald D Hoffman HOF FM, AN all one word lowercase.
- And gods, lowercase gods, those that can exist in the plural.
- That there's that notion of a deep capital self, but our little capital lowercase S selves could be artifacts of projection.
Examples
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The letter ID subtest of the WRMT-R/NU (Woodcock, 1987/1998) assesses the ability to name upper- and lowercase letters.
Academic text (2013) -
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) -
Students are presented with a page of upper- and lowercase letters arranged randomly and are asked to name as many letters as possible.
Academic text (2010) -
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) -
The convention is to represent the presence of a condition with uppercase letters and the absence of the condition with lowercase letters.
Academic text (2008) -
* Letter Recognition: identifying and naming uppercase and lowercase letters.
Academic text (2011) -
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) -
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) -
When typing, remember to use lowercase letters for the first word in a sentence.
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Make sure to enter your email address in lowercase letters to avoid any issues.
Synonyms
Written in lowercase rather than uppercase
A small letter of the alphabet that is not a capital
Written in small letters rather than capital letters
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Lowercase comes from an old printing practice: small letters were kept in the lower case, or box, while big letters stayed in the 'upper case'. So lowercase means the 'small' form of a letter, not the capital form.