Meaning of "upper-case" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF UPPER-CASE

upper-case  [ˈʌpəˌkeɪs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPPER-CASE

Upper-Case is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb upper-case in English.

WHAT DOES UPPER-CASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Letter case

In orthography and typography, letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case and smaller lower case in certain languages. In the Latin script, upper case letters are A, B, C, etc., whereas lower case includes a, b, c, etc. Here is a comparison of the upper and lower case versions of each letter included in the English alphabet: The lower case is the more commonly used variant, contrasted by the upper case, which is used for special purposes, for example as the first letter of a sentence or a proper noun; however, the upper-case forms are regarded as the basic or citation forms of the letters. Languages have capitalisation rules to determine whether an upper or lower case letter is to be used in a given context, but there can also be stylistic variation.

Definition of upper-case in the English dictionary

The definition of upper-case in the dictionary is to print with upper-case letters; capitalize.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UPPER-CASE

PRESENT

Present

I upper-case

you upper-case

he/she/it upper-cases

we upper-case

you upper-case

they upper-case

Present continuous

I am upper-casing

you are upper-casing

he/she/it is upper-casing

we are upper-casing

you are upper-casing

they are upper-casing

Present perfect

I have upper-cased

you have upper-cased

he/she/it has upper-cased

we have upper-cased

you have upper-cased

they have upper-cased

Present perfect continuous

I have been upper-casing

you have been upper-casing

he/she/it has been upper-casing

we have been upper-casing

you have been upper-casing

they have been upper-casing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I upper-cased

you upper-cased

he/she/it upper-cased

we upper-cased

you upper-cased

they upper-cased

Past continuous

I was upper-casing

you were upper-casing

he/she/it was upper-casing

we were upper-casing

you were upper-casing

they were upper-casing

Past perfect

I had upper-cased

you had upper-cased

he/she/it had upper-cased

we had upper-cased

you had upper-cased

they had upper-cased

Past perfect continuous

I had been upper-casing

you had been upper-casing

he/she/it had been upper-casing

we had been upper-casing

you had been upper-casing

they had been upper-casing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will upper-case

you will upper-case

he/she/it will upper-case

we will upper-case

you will upper-case

they will upper-case

Future continuous

I will be upper-casing

you will be upper-casing

he/she/it will be upper-casing

we will be upper-casing

you will be upper-casing

they will be upper-casing

Future perfect

I will have upper-cased

you will have upper-cased

he/she/it will have upper-cased

we will have upper-cased

you will have upper-cased

they will have upper-cased

Future perfect continuous

I will have been upper-casing

you will have been upper-casing

he/she/it will have been upper-casing

we will have been upper-casing

you will have been upper-casing

they will have been upper-casing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would upper-case

you would upper-case

he/she/it would upper-case

we would upper-case

you would upper-case

they would upper-case

Conditional continuous

I would be upper-casing

you would be upper-casing

he/she/it would be upper-casing

we would be upper-casing

you would be upper-casing

they would be upper-casing

Conditional perfect

I would have upper-case

you would have upper-case

he/she/it would have upper-case

we would have upper-case

you would have upper-case

they would have upper-case

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been upper-casing

you would have been upper-casing

he/she/it would have been upper-casing

we would have been upper-casing

you would have been upper-casing

they would have been upper-casing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you upper-case
we let´s upper-case
you upper-case

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to upper-case

Past participle

upper-cased

Present Participle

upper-casing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF UPPER-CASE

Find out the translation of upper-case to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of upper-case from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «upper-case» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 大写
• Translator English - Spanish: mayúsculas
• English: upper-case
• Translator English - Hindi: ऊपरी मामले
• Translator English - Arabic: العلوي حدة
• Translator English - Russian: верхнего регистра
• Translator English - Portuguese: maiúsculas
• Translator English - Bengali: উপরের ক্ষেত্রে
• Translator English - French: majuscules
• Translator English - Malay: Huruf besar
• Translator English - German: großgeschrieben
• Translator English - Japanese: 大文字
• Translator English - Korean: 대문자
• Translator English - Javanese: Ndhuwur-cilik
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chữ hoa
• Translator English - Tamil: பேரெழுத்தில்
• Translator English - Marathi: वरच्या केस
• Translator English - Turkish: harf
• Translator English - Italian: maiuscole
• Translator English - Polish: wielkie litery
• Translator English - Ukrainian: верхнього регістру
• Translator English - Romanian: majuscule
• Translator English - Greek: κεφαλαία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: hoofletters
• Translator English - Swedish: versaler
• Translator English - Norwegian: store bokstaver

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPPER-CASE»

Discover the use of upper-case in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to upper-case and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Snow White-Pre-Writing Upper Case: Learning with Literature

A guide to writing upper-case letters for preschoolers.

Deborah Tiersch-Allen, 2007

Upper-Case Letters

Workbook to help children practice writing uppercase letters.

Harriet Ziefert, 2007

Reach Out for Upper Case: Zim's World of Reading

SKILLS PAGE NUMBERS lDENTlFYlNG, TRAClNG, FORMlNG LETTERS upper- case A 1 upper-case B 2 upper-case C 3 upper-case D 4 upper-case E 5 upper- case F 6 upper-case G 7 upper-case H 8 upper-case 1 9 upper-case J 10 ...

Deborah Tiersch-Allen, 2007

L.S.A., List of C.F.R. Sections Affected

A statement must be in a prominent location on the box or other package in which the receiver is to be marketed, and information must be in the owner's manual, indicating the receiver displays closed captioning in upper case only.

‎2003

The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

Upper-case A. Upper-case B. Upper-case C. Upper-case D. Upper-case E. Upper-case F. Upper-case G. Upper-case H. Upper-case I. Upper-case J. Upper- case K. Upper-case L Upper-case M. Upper-case N. Upper-case 0. Upper-case P .

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Staff, 2003

FCC Part 15

At sign. Uppercase A. Uppercase B. Upper-case C. Upper-case D. Upper -case E . Upper-case F. Upper-case G. Upper -case H. Uppercase I. Uppercase J. Upper- case K. Upper-case L Upper-case M Uppercase N Uppercase O. Upper-case P.

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The Art of Assembly Language

The third group of 32 ASCII characters contains the upper case alphabetic characters. The ASCII codes for the characters “A”..“Z” lie in the range $41..$5A ( 65..90). Because there are only 26 different alphabetic characters, the remaining six ...

Randall Hyde, 2003

The Canadian Alphabet Gr. Prek-K

It has an upper case letter “N” and a lower case Have them note that the upper case “N” is tall while the lower case “n” is shorter. 1. 22. Discuss the shape of the upper case What are the lines like in the upper case “N?” (straight, slanted) How  ...

Ruth Solski

Newsletter

VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1 6 JANUARY 1982 The Great Upper Case Debate Continues MTS by default translates text entered by terminal users to upper case. The reasoning in the past has been that upper case is almost certainly what most  ...

University of Michigan Computing Center, 1980

XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

The string with lower case letters converted to upper case Effect See the entry for lower-case() on page 366 for a description of how this function is defined in terms of Unicode case mappings. The effect of the function is as follows: ❑ If the input ...

Michael Kay, 2004

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPPER-CASE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term upper-case is used in the context of the following news items.

SD cards branded with an upper-case 'I' are faster, yo

Since they're theoretically capable of 300 megabyte per second transfer rates, we knew SDXC cards wouldn't stay slow forever. How will we separate wheat ... «Engadget, Jun 10»

Upper-case and straight lace: What Carol Bartz might bring to Yahoo

Carol Bartz, the Autodesk CEO widely considered to be the next head of Yahoo There is nothing the least bit low-key about Carol Bartz, the longtime Autodesk ... «BetaNews, Jan 09»