uppercase
verbEtymology From upper + case.
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To convert (text) to upper case.
uppercase
adjEtymology From upper + case.
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Written in upper case; capital.
- 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.2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz:
- Antonyms
- lowercase
- Derived terms
- uppercase letter