uppercase

Words with a similar base: uppercase

'uppercase'

[capital.n.04] as in: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

Examples:
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters

'uppercase'

[uppercase.a.01] as in: relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case

Examples:
uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc

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