英语词汇“in lower case”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. Typography. The letters or type found in the compositor's lower case (see sense A. 1); esp. the small letters. In later use more generally, with reference to any form of text: small letters as opposed to capital letters (upper case); the case in which small letters are written, printed, or otherwise displayed (cf. case n.² 6b, minuscule n. 2). Frequently in in lower case.

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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 221 If this Word of great Emphasis be Set in the Lower Case, yet he Sets the first Letter a Capital.

1784 T. Astle Origin & Progress Writing ix. 225 Printers divide a fount of letters into two classes, namely, the upper-case and the lower-case.

1817 Lit. Gaz. 15 Feb. 53/2 One alphabet will not be sufficient for a modern title page, but upper case and lower case, with the whole train of pica and long primer, must be pressed into the service of modern men of Letters!

1898 Writer Mar. 39/1 Proper nouns, when they become common nouns or adjectives, should be written in lower case.

1911 Inland Printer Nov. 235/2 The line of capitals often gives a sort of dignity to the top of the advertisement, which is lacking when lower-case is used.

1974 M. Clifford Encycl. Home Wiring & Electr. i. 6 The letter M, either capitalized or in lower case, is the abbreviation for mili-.

2011 S. MacBride Shatter Bones (2012) 100 A vague black-and-green blob with the word ‘sooty’ printed beside it in scruffy lower-case.

单词	in lower case
释义	> as lemmas in lower case 2. Typography. The letters or type found in the compositor's lower case (see sense A. 1); esp. the small letters. In later use more generally, with reference to any form of text: small letters as opposed to capital letters (upper case); the case in which small letters are written, printed, or otherwise displayed (cf. case n.² 6b, minuscule n. 2). Frequently in in lower case. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 221 If this Word of great Emphasis be Set in the Lower Case, yet he Sets the first Letter a Capital. 1784 T. Astle Origin & Progress Writing ix. 225 Printers divide a fount of letters into two classes, namely, the upper-case and the lower-case. 1817 Lit. Gaz. 15 Feb. 53/2 One alphabet will not be sufficient for a modern title page, but upper case and lower case, with the whole train of pica and long primer, must be pressed into the service of modern men of Letters! 1898 Writer Mar. 39/1 Proper nouns, when they become common nouns or adjectives, should be written in lower case. 1911 Inland Printer Nov. 235/2 The line of capitals often gives a sort of dignity to the top of the advertisement, which is lacking when lower-case is used. 1974 M. Clifford Encycl. Home Wiring & Electr. i. 6 The letter M, either capitalized or in lower case, is the abbreviation for mili-. 2011 S. MacBride Shatter Bones (2012) 100 A vague black-and-green blob with the word ‘sooty’ printed beside it in scruffy lower-case. extracted from lower casen.adj. < as lemmas
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