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語源

Named for the original arrangement in typesetting, where the drawer or case containing capital letters would traditionally be located above the one containing small letters.

名詞

upper case (uncountable)

1. The capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....

   Synonyms: majuscule, u/c (initialism)

   Antonyms: lower case, minuscule

   Coordinate term: mixed case

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Further reading

Letter case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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形容詞

uppercase (not comparable)

1. Written in upper case; capital.
   • 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz‎:

     In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.

反意語

• lowercase

派生語

名詞

uppercase

1. Alternative form of upper case.

動詞

uppercase (third-person singular simple present uppercases, present participle uppercasing, simple past and past participle uppercased)

1. (transitive) To convert (text) to upper case.

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