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Meanings of uppercase in English

Portuguese
maiúsculo
Catalan
lletra majúscula

One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"

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maiúsculo

Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; X and Y and Z etc"

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Examples for "lowercase"
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Use lowercase text to better match search queries and for better compressibility.
Website optimization
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You must also use a number, an uppercase letter, and a lowercase letter.
Wired
3
We could use an em dash, which is a long dash, families, lowercase.
The new yorker
4
The transform command changes each lowercase letter to an uppercase letter.
Sed & awk, 2nd edition
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All the lines began with lowercase letters, and ended without punctuation.
The irresistible henry house
Usage of uppercase in English
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The following example sets all ordered lists to uppercase Roman numerals:
Website optimization
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You must also use a number, an uppercase letter, and a lowercase letter.
Wired
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The transform command changes each lowercase letter to an uppercase letter.
Sed & awk, 2nd edition
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If Yahoos must be downsized they should be downsized in uppercase.
Wired
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Yes, the first line really does have to be in uppercase (ugh!
Essential system administration, 3rd edition
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LetterSchool offers uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers with three different levels of learning.
Wired
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Over the years that uppercase "n" has come to haunt people.
The Irish Times
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There was lettering, uppercase, black, on a blue background.
Bones Are Forever
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They needed to be uppercase, but some were lowercase while others had an initial capital letter.
Sed & awk, 2nd edition
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During each of three different word-stem completion scans, word-stem cues were visually presented in uppercase letters.
Pubmed
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Does the K always have to be uppercase?
Wired
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The transform command could do the lowercase-to-uppercase conversion but it applies the conversion to the entire line.
Sed & awk, 2nd edition
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This expression would match any consonant, any vowel in uppercase, and any punctuation mark or special character.
Sed & awk, 2nd edition
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E. g. -"id:GAMMAgamma"-indicates an uppercase Greek gamma-form followed by the form in lowercase.
The History of Rome, Book I / The Period Anterior to the Aboliti...
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For example, -"id:GAMMAgamma"-indicates an uppercase Greek gamma-form followed by the form in lowercase.
The History of Rome, Book II / From the Abolition of the Monarch...
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Returns the specified string converted to uppercase.
Mysql stored procedure programming
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