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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uncapitalize en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + capitalize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To convert the first letter (or more) of (something) from uppercase to lowercase; to make uncapitalized.
    • Section 2.1 uncapitalize tetramethylsilane since it is mid-sentence 2009, David E. Volk, Talk:NMR spectroscopy/Draft:
    • The easy way to uncapitalize text is to highlight it and press Shift+F3 2004, Stanley Zarowin, “A Quick Way to Capitalize and Uncapitalize”, in Journal of Accountancy:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
uncapitalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
uncapitalise alternative lexicographic
uncapitalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
uncapitalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
uncapitalized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

uncapitalization

Relateds

uncapitalized

Synonyms

decapitalize