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🔠 A capital letter 🔠 Capital letter form 🔠 To make capitals
to uppercase

to uppercase

3.7
Change letters so they are all capital letters
  • verb
  • /ˈʌpərkeɪs/
  • Specialized
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  • She needed to uppercase the file names to maintain consistency in the database.

Examples

  • I'm saying STR dot to uppercase, and I pass it in STR.

  • So I can make everything uppercase, lowercase.

  • In Python, you can use the method uppercase() to convert all letters in a string to capital letters.

  • To ensure proper formatting, make sure to uppercase the headers in your document.

Synonyms

to capitalize
vsto uppercase
  • US
9 3.0

To write a word with a large first letter

refers specifically to converting entire text into only capital letters for typography

Antonyms

to lowercase
  • Specialized
1 3.8

To change letters so they are all small, not capital letters

How Capitalized

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

Surface Forms

uppercase infinitive
uppercased past
uppercased past participle
uppercasing present participle
uppercases third person singular

Morphology

uppercase = uppercase (opaque) = upper + case

The verb is a conversion from the noun 'uppercase', but the connection depends on the specialized printing/typography sense of 'case', which is not obvious from the everyday meanings of the parts.

Etymology

Uppercase comes from the same printer idea: the big letters lived in the 'upper case', and the parts upper and case point to that. So to uppercase text is to change its letters into large or 'capital' forms.