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to lowercase

to lowercase

1 3.8
To change letters so they are all small, not capital letters
  • verb
  • /ˈloʊərkeɪs/
  • Specialized
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  • So step, step, step, step, step lowercased my input string.

So step, step, step, step, step lowercased my input string.

Examples

  • She included a smiley on the front and deliberately lowercased "skepchick" on the back.

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  • I just came in here to say that if you ever need to lowercase a website,

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  • With respect, I don't believe she thought lowercasing such a particular name would make it generic.

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  • (I'm sure there's a Perl one-liner to lowercase text in the image files too, but it's probably longer...)

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  • But the punchline is the client's request to lowercase user input as well, implying that the designer believes this so unrealistic as to be laughable.

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  • In lowercasing the text on the website, I’d imagine that text rendered into images isn’t as big a deal as text that’s in the database.

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  • To ensure consistency, you should lowercase all text entries in the database.

  • Before submitting your work, remember to lowercase any capital letters in the code.

  • The program can automatically lowercase the entire string to avoid case sensitivity issues.

Synonyms

to uncase
vsto lowercase
  • Specialized
7.6

To change capital letters to small letters

converts letters in any text into small letters regardless of original case

Antonyms

to uppercase
  • Specialized
3.7

Change letters so they are all capital letters

How Capitalized

to uppercase
  • Specialized
3.7
to capitalize
  • US
9 3.0
to lowercase
  • Specialized
1 3.8

Surface Forms

lowercase infinitive
lowercased past
lowercased past participle
lowercasing present participle
lowercases third person singular

Etymology

Lowercase as a verb comes from the same idea of moving letters into the lower case to make them small, so to lowercase text is to change letters to their 'small' form.