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PRONUNCIATION OF CASE-SENSITIVE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CASE-SENSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Case-Sensitive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CASE-SENSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Case sensitivity

Text sometimes exhibits case sensitivity; that is, words can differ in meaning based on differing use of uppercase and lowercase letters. Words with capital letters do not always have the same meaning when written with lowercase letters. For example, Bill is the first name of former U.S. president William Clinton, who could sign a bill. And a Polish person can use polish to clean or shine something. In food, the Calorie, with a capital C, is sometimes used to denote 1000 calories of energy. The opposite term of "case-sensitive" is "case-insensitive".

Definition of case-sensitive in the English dictionary

The definition of case-sensitive in the dictionary is distinguishing between upper-case and lower-case letters.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CASE-SENSITIVE

case knives
case law
case notes
case papers
case shot
case stated
case study
case system
case-by-case
case-harden
casease
caseate
caseation
casebearer
casebook
casebound
cased edition
casefy
caseic
casein

WORDS THAT END LIKE CASE-SENSITIVE

active
additive
aperitive
capacitive
cognitive
competitive
definitive
false positive
fugitive
HIV-positive
insensitive
intransitive
intuitive
nutritive
positive
primitive
prohibitive
punitive
repetitive
sensitive
time-sensitive

Synonyms and antonyms of case-sensitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «case-sensitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CASE-SENSITIVE

Find out the translation of case-sensitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of case-sensitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «case-sensitive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

区分大小写
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mayúsculas y minúsculas
570 millions of speakers

English

case-sensitive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मामले के प्रति संवेदनशील
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لحالة الأحرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

с учетом регистра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

case-sensitive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেস সংবেদনশীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sensible à la casse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kes sensitif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Groß-und Klein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大文字と小文字を区別する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대소 문자를 구분
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

huruf kapital digatekke
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trường hợp nhạy cảm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வழக்கு உணர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केस-संवेदी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

harfe duyarlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

case-sensitive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wielkość liter
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з урахуванням регістра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

case-sensitive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

case-sensitive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geval - sensitiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skiftlägeskänsliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

store og små bokstaver
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of case-sensitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CASE-SENSITIVE»

The term «case-sensitive» is very widely used and occupies the 19.021 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CASE-SENSITIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «case-sensitive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «case-sensitive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about case-sensitive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CASE-SENSITIVE»

Discover the use of case-sensitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to case-sensitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Case Sensitive
Poetry. Greenstreet's highly original CASE SENSITIVE posits a female central character who writes chapbooks that become the sections in this book. "What happens in the book I want to read?" Greenstreet asked herself.
Kate Greenstreet, 2006
2
Oracle Database 11g: New Features for DBAs and Developers
For added security, Oracle introduces case-sensitive passwords for databases created with the default Oracle Database 11genhanced security. For databases not created with the default security, you can enable case sensitivity with the ...
Sam R. Alapati, Charles Kim, 2007
3
Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 10
For times when you want to search for a word, but only if it's capitalized, you can narrow a search by making it case-sensitive. You can actually make a case- sensitive replacement, too. For example, if you want to find the word Water, but not ...
Laura Acklen, Read Gilgen, 2001
4
Microsoft SQL Server 2000: A Guide to Enhancements and New ...
... kanatype-sensitive, width-insensitive _CI_AS_KS_WS Case-insensitive, accent-sensitive, kanatype-sensitive, width-sensitive _CS_AI Case-sensitive, accent-insensitive, kanatype-insensitive, width-insensitive _CS_AI_WS Case- sensitive, ...
Rahul Sharma, 2002
5
Mac OS X Help Line, Tiger Edition
“Performing repairs with Disk Utility (First Aid),” in Chapter 5, for more on whatjournaled means. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING Case-Sensitive HFS Formatting If you're using Tiger (client or server) or Panther (server version only), when you format ...
Ted Landau, Dan Frakes, 2005
6
Beginning Regular Expressions
Regular. Expressions. Can. Be. Case. Sensitive. A further complicating aspect of using regular expressions is that in some circumstances regular expressions are case sensitive. Case sensitivity has two aspects, one related to whether ...
Andrew Watt, 2005
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Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.6: A ...
you have two files, Makefile and makefile, in the same folder on a case-sensitive Mac OS X server. If you were to copy those files to a Mac OS X client computer, which is by default not case sensitive, you would run into problems. The operating ...
Arek Dreyer, Ben Greisler, 2009
8
Web Security Testing Cookbook
Case Sensitivity in URLs You may be surprised to discover that some parts of your URL are case-sensitive (meaning uppercase and lowercase letters mean different things), whereas other parts of the URL are not. This is true, and you should ...
Paco Hope, Ben Walther, 2009
9
Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3
Running Case-Sensitive Searches When you want to search for a word, but only if it's capitalized, you can narrow a search by making it case-sensitive. You can actually make a case-sensitive replacement, too. For example, if you want to find  ...
Ernest Adams, Read Gilgen, 2006
10
Access Cookbook: Solutions to Common User Interface & ...
1.14. Create. a. Query. That. Uses. Case-Sensitive. Criteria. Problem. You have a table of words, some of which appear multiple times. Each instance of these words is spelled using a different combination of upper- and lowercase. You'd like ...
Ken Getz, Paul Litwin, Andy Baron, 2004

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CASE-SENSITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term case-sensitive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NTT Adopts Vmoso for Communication Efficiency
BroadVision and its case-sensitive permutations are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other ... «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Lloydsbank, IIoydsbank - researcher highlights the homographic …
On some device/browser combinations the problem is compounded, showing the URL in its case-sensitive form - rather than lowercasing it to a ... «Graham Cluley Security News, Jun 15»
3
Fleksy Keyboard updated with hotkey shortcuts, case-sensitive
The functionality of the globe button is also now customizable, for example making it dismiss the keyboard, and you can opt for a case-sensitive ... «9 to 5 Mac, Feb 15»
4
How to format a storage drive for Mac
Mac OS Extended (Case-Sensitive, Journaled) - by default OS X treats lower-case and upper-case files on a drive the same; but if that's an ... «Macworld UK, Aug 14»
5
Mac apps will crash without fail due to simple case-sensitive URL …
For the longest time, one of Apple's most prominent slogans for OS X was “It just works,” which was actually true to some degree, once upon a ... «ExtremeTech, Feb 13»
6
ShowCase for iPhone: case-sensitive keyboard keys [Jailbreak]
ShowCase is a new tweak from ashikase (creator of Backgrounder, among many other things) that displays the current letter case right on the ... «iSource, Feb 11»

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