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uppercase vs small cap

small cap vs uppercase

uppercase and small cap both are nouns.

uppercase is an adjective but small cap is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
uppercase Yes Yes No No
small cap Yes No No No
As nouns, small cap is a hyponym of uppercase; that is, small cap is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than uppercase:
  • uppercase: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
  • small cap: a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
Other hyponyms of uppercase include small capital.
uppercase (noun) small cap (noun)
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
a corporation with a small capitalization
uppercase (adjective) small cap (adjective)
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
Difference between uppercase and small cap

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