Lower Case

Definition: Lower Case

Lower Case

Noun

1. The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.

Domain	Definition
Publishing & Graphic Arts	Hand type is kept in compartmented trays called cases. The capital letters used to be kept in the upper case, small letters in the lower. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lower Case

Synonyms: lower-case letter (n), small letter (n). (additional references)

Antonym: capital (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Printing	Boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, point system: -/, -/,, point, etc.; press room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lower Case

English words defined with "lower case": Lower-case. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lower case": ALIGNER, TYPEWRITER, ASCII keyboard, ASCIIbetical order ♦ case sensitivity ♦ Extraordinary Session ♦ mass flow rate per unit area ♦ transputer. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Calligraphy Techniques: Lower Case Italic (Workbook 1) (reference) Capital and Lower Case Letters (Lets Learn Series) (reference) Learn & Print: Cap & Lower Case Letters (reference) Neon Abc, Book 2 Script Capitals and Lower Case (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Lower Case (+1 Bonus Track) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "lower case"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏حروف صغيرة, ‏صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, little, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, remote, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young). (various references)

Czech		malá písmena. (various references)

Danish		smaa bogstaver (small print), små bogstaver, minuskler. (various references)

Dutch		letter uit de onderkast, onderkast (pedestal), o.k.. (various references)

Esperanto		minusklo (lower case letter, small letter). (various references)

French		lettre du bas de casse, motion basse, en bas de casse, bas de casse, bas de case. (various references)

German		Unterkasten, niedere Stabe, kleingeschrieben, kleine Schrift, kleinbuchstaben (lower-case character), klein (diminutive, dinky, humble, lesser, little, little (less, low, lower, lowly, mini, miniature, modest, ordinary, petty, puny, quick, runty, short, slight, small, small-sized, thin), gemeine (common soldier), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references)

Greek		μικρά γράμματα του κάτω μέρους της κάσας. (various references)

Hebrew		אותיות קט� ות. (various references)

Hungarian		nyomtatott kisbetű (lowercase). (various references)

Italian		lettera minuscola (small letter), basso (base, bass, bottom, ignoble, low, low down, lower, Nether, shallow, short, small, superficial). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		小文字 (lower case letters). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"もじ (lower case letters). (various references)

Manx		case beg. (various references)

Pig Latin		owerlay asecay

Portuguese		letras minúsculas, caixa baixa (small cap). (various references)

Russian		верхний регистр (upper case, uppercase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		malim slovima (small letter). (various references)

Spanish		letra de caja baja, minúsculo (minuscule, minute, tiny, wee), minúscula (minuscule, small letter), caja baja. (various references)

Turkish		küçük harf (minuscule, small letter). (various references)

Ukrainian		рядковий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lowercase.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: escarole.
	-2 letters: acerose, areoles, cereals, claroes, clawers, coalers, creoles, crewels, escolar, oracles, recoals, relaces, rescale, sclerae, scowler, solacer.
	-3 letters: areole, carles, carols, ceorls, cereal, claros, clawer, clears, closer, coaler, coarse, corals, cowers, crawls, crease, creels, creole, cresol, crewel, escrow, lacers, larees, leaser, lowers, ocreae, oracle, reales, recoal, relace, resale, reseal, resole, rowels, scaler.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-o-r-s-w"
	+1 letter: lowercased, lowercases.
	+3 letters: candlepowers, watercoolers.
	+4 letters: lowerclassmen.
	+5 letters: cauliflowerets, cowardlinesses.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lower case	6
lower case letter	3
lower case alphabet	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lower Case

Definition: Lower Case

Lower Case

Noun

Specialty Definition: Lower Case

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Synonyms: Lower Case

Synonyms within Context: Lower Case

Printing

Crosswords: Lower Case

Commercial Usage: Lower Case

Books

Music

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lower Case

lower case

lower case letter

lower case alphabet

Modern Translation: Lower Case

Arabic

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Anagrams: Lower Case

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