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English to English adjective
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relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case |  | Example: uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc
source: wordnet30 noun
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one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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