one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis;
"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"
Adjective
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case;
"uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"
例句
用作名词(n.)
Begin the comment text with an uppercase letter.注释文本以大写字母开头。
Converts all uppercase letters in a text string to lowercase letters.将文本字符串中的所有大写字母转换为小写字母。
用作形容词(adj.)
Lowercase and Uppercase filters are very useful for consolidating line items in a report.小写和大写的过滤器是非常有益的巩固项目在一份报告中。
Returns a character expression with lowercase character data converted to uppercase.返回小写字符数据转换为大写的字符表达式。