Definitions for upper-case

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upper-case upper case

Spelling: [keys]

IPA: /keɪs/

Upper-Case is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 422 anagrams from letters in upper-case (-aceepprsu).

Definitions for upper-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 upper-case

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for upper-case

The letters a-i, upper case and lower case, enclosed in square brackets are script font.

The "upper case" contains capitals; the "lower case," small letters.

The transcription also replicates the original text in its use of upper case, lower case, small capitals, and italics.

In his own mind, Colonel Fennister spelled the word with an upper case P, and put the word in italics.

Letters that are accented in the lower case are typically not accented in the upper case.

A little platform is put on the upper case, which projects beyond it all round.

The top of the rack is made to hold two cases at a time, the lower case on the front part and the upper case back of it.

Once the code is available, search for the string "TN" (upper case only) to find each change.

The coded message in upper case letters which Fergus had dropped in the snow!

The stand or cabinet may be placed close against a wall or other frame, as the upper case does not overhang at the back.