lower-case letter


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Noun1.lower-case letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type caselower-case letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
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Tarzan first had been attracted to it by the fact that it was very short and that it commenced with a larger g-bug than those about it--a male g-bug it was to Tarzan, the lower-case letters being females.
It would tire you to remember that DO meant b, TU o, and RO y, and that to say he-boy you must prefix the ape masculine gender sound BU before the entire word and the feminine gender sound MU before each of the lower-case letters which go to make up boy--it would tire you and it would bring me to the nineteenth hole several strokes under par.
In the paper, set to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics , the team concluded that planets b and c (each world goes by a lower-case letter), experience tidal heat, and that planet c likely has little to no water, but mostly iron and rock.
He also included a picture showing a diamond-shaped symbol with the lower-case letter "m" on each point.
The contemporary fonts have three versions of each lower-case letter, so a letter--or, more logically, an envelope--looks one-to-one.
Her distinction between' labour with a capital letter' (the process of becoming' the new [Soviet] man, a new personality') and 'labour with a lower-case letter' (the daily work-day routines of the working class, the new heroes of Soviet cinema after the 1920s) is a very productive one in the discussion of Stalinist and Thaw cinema.
I added a straight edge with the palm of my left hand to make a lower-case letter "b"--"b" for "before." Oh!
Each of the 26 puzzles containing an upper--and lower-case letter along with a word that starts with the letter and the word's picture.
Designed both as a corporate mark and for animated internet applications, the company's new brand identity is a cartoon character based on the lower-case letter g.
A critical factor in determining how much white space there can be inside a lower-case letter is its x-height - the height of the lower-case letters (a, c, e, m, n, o ...