| 单词 | lowercase |
| 释义 | lowercase (once / 113648 pages) adjn Lowercase letters aren't capitalized — they're the smaller versions of each letter. For example, this is a lowercase "a" while this its big brother: the capital "A." Sometimes people get sloppy and write in all lowercase letters on email. In English, we capitalize (or use uppercase letters) when we write someone's name, a book's title, or the name of a country. Otherwise, our writing is full of lowercase letters. Every letter in the alphabet has an uppercase and lowercase version, the latter being mainly smaller and shorter on a printed page. In typography, capital letters are all the same height, while the size of lowercase letters varies (think of an a compared with a j, for example). WORD FAMILYlowercase USAGE EXAMPLESThe company’s insistence on a lowercase “t” and its management-speak filled press release led to much mockery. The Guardian(Nov 01, 2016) In the fourth and fifth centuries, Augustine used “half-uncial,” the first script to include lowercase letters. The New Yorker(Oct 22, 2016) I would like to believe that would make a difference — still lowercase, perhaps, but worthwhile nonetheless. New York Times(Sep 29, 2016) 1adj relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case lowercase letters Syn|Ant little, miniscule, minuscule, small lowercase miniscule, minuscular, minusculeof or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries uppercase relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case capital, great, majusculeuppercase majusculeof or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries 2n the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case Syn|Ant|Hyper lower-case letter, miniscule, minuscule, small letter capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis character, grapheme, graphic symbol a written symbol that is used to represent speech |
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