Definitions for lower-case

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lower-case lower case

Spelling: [loh-er]

IPA: /ˈloʊ ər/

Lower-Case is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 506 anagrams from letters in lower-case (-aceelorsw).

Definitions for lower-case

noun

1. See under case2 (def 8).
2. an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle:
3. a sheath or outer covering:
4. a box with its contents:
5. the amount contained in a box or other container:
6. a pair or couple; brace:
7. a surrounding frame or framework, as of a door.
8. Bookbinding. a completed book cover ready to be fitted to form the binding of a book.
9. Printing. a tray of wood, metal, or plastic, divided into compartments for holding types for the use of a compositor and usually arranged in a set of two, the upper (upper case) for capital letters and often auxiliary types, the lower (lower case) for small letters and often auxiliary types, now generally replaced by the California job case. Compare news case.
10. a cavity in the skull of a sperm whale, containing an oil from which spermaceti is obtained.
11. Also called case card. Cards. the last card of a suit or denomination that remains after the other cards have been played:
12. Faro. casebox.
13. Southeastern U.S. (chiefly South Carolina) . a coin of a particular denomination, as opposed to the same amount in change:
14. Metallurgy. the hard outer part of a piece of casehardened steel.

verb (used with object)

1. to put or enclose in a case; cover with a case.
2. Slang. to examine or survey (a house, bank, etc.) in planning a crime (sometimes followed by out):
3. to fuse a layer of glass onto (glass of a contrasting color or of different properties).
4. to cover (a surface of a wall, well, shaft, etc.) with a facing or lining; revet.
5. Bookbinding. to bind (a book) in a case.
6. Cards Slang. to arrange (cards or a pack of cards) in a dishonest manner. to remember the quantity, suit, or denomination of (the cards played).

Origin of lower-case

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for lower-case

The small capital is not used in combination with lower-case in the same word.

The lower-case o and the old style cypher are also easily confused.

The small capitals are ordinarily no taller than the round letters of the lower-case.

The small capital is only as high as the lower-case round letters.

Dick's lower-case, lower-abdominal second meaning has been around for while.

The mixing of upper- and lower-case letters shows confusion regarding his identity and could be the writing of a teenager.

What combinations of capitals and lower-case are permissible?

Are combinations of large and small capitals and lower-case advisable?

German nouns printed in lower-case have not been changed to upper-case.

Page 164: Al-muktadir Billah was printed with a lower-case m.