[
UK
/lˈəʊəkˌeɪs/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
lowercase letters; a and b and c etc
NOUN
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
How To Use lowercase In A Sentence
- Adjectives derived from them are usually lowercased, as are the generic names for such bodies when used alone. October « 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook
- Titles are normally lowercased when following a name or used in place of a name ... 27 « October « 2009 « Fantasy Author's Handbook
- In lowercase they become so killingly matter-of-fact, which is the whole joke. John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
- Baseball, by which I mean baseball, lowercase b, has lost a penetrating mind of great discernment, a gadfly who would not be dissuaded from his job as he saw it even when the Commissioner himself phoned to tell him to cut it out.
- He has also learned the Greek alphabet, capital and lowercase, and has begun to make the distinction between consonants and vowels.
- The region indicated by lowercase letters represents the P-element sequence.
- As we climbed the podium, I mentioned that his book title, "God Is Not Great," (which, on the book's cover, has a pugnaciously lowercase "god") was exactly correct. The atheist and the rabbi: Arguing about God with Christopher Hitchens
- The new logos feature a lowercase "aol" on top of various colorful images that range from an orange goldfish to a green scribble. ReadWriteWeb
- Instead of capitalizing the first letter, type it in lowercase, as most people type in all lowercase letters when searching.
- So, every prize of tea, every fag is same a lowercase celebration.