uppercase

See also: upper-case, and upper case

English

Etymology

From upper +‎ case.

Adjective

uppercase (not comparable)

2. 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^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• lowercase

Translations

written in upper case

• Afrikaans: hoofletters
• Armenian: մեծատառ (hy) (mecataṙ)
• Catalan: majúscul
• Finnish: versaali (fi)
• French: majuscule (fr)
• German: großgeschrieben (de), groß (de)
• Hungarian: nagybetűs (hu), verzál (hu) (typography)
• Russian: загла́вный (ru) (zaglávnyj), прописно́й (ru) (propisnój), большо́й (ru) (bolʹšój)
• Spanish: mayúscula (es)
• Swedish: versal (sv)
• Tagalog: mayuskula, kaha-alta

Noun

uppercase

1. Alternative spelling of upper case

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• præpuces