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語源

From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈloʊ.ɚˌkeɪs/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˈkeɪs/, /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/

名詞

lowercase (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lower case.

形容詞

lowercase (not comparable)

1. In lower case.

同意語

• lowercased
• minuscule

反意語

• uppercase

動詞

lowercase (third-person singular simple present lowercases, present participle lowercasing, simple past and past participle lowercased)

1. (transitive) To convert (text) to lower case.
   • 1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)

   • 2000, Tom Miller, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s Southwest, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 216:

     I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.

別の表記

• lowercase

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈləʊ.ə(ɹ)ˌkeɪs/

名詞

lower case (uncountable)

1. The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C).

   The strongest passwords are those which mix numbers and letters, upper case and lower case, and symbols.

使用する際の注意点

• Pedantically, lowercase and uppercase describe type, while minuscule and majuscule describe handwriting, and small and capital are more generally applied to any letters, including painted, engraved, etc.

同意語

• small letter
• minuscule

反意語

• uppercase, upper case
• majuscule
• capital, cap
• big letter
• block letter

等位語

• ALL CAPS
• AlTeRnaTinG cApS
• CamelCase
• Initial Caps
• Sentence case
• Title Case

派生語

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