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titlecase

titlecase noun: the variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.

Noun

titlecase (countable and uncountable, plural titlecases)

  1. The variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.
    • In ASCII, there are uppercase letters and lowercase letters, but in Unicode, there is also a third sort of case, called titlecase.2012, Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting
  2. Such letter.

Verb

titlecase (third-person singular simple present titlecases, present participle titlecasing, simple past and past participle titlecased)

  1. (transitive) To convert to titlecase form.
    • For example, if we wanted to titlecase the BlogPost title, you would simply call the title() filter like this: <h2>{{ post.title|title }}</h2>2012, Wesley Chun, Core Python Applications Programming

Forms of titlecase

Noun
pluraltitlecases
Verb
third-person singular presenttitlecases
present participletitlecasing
past participletitlecased
pasttitlecased

Origin of titlecase

From title + case.

Questions about titlecase

What does titlecase mean?
Titlecase means the variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.
What part of speech is titlecase?
Titlecase can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of titlecase?
The plural of titlecase is titlecases.

Words near titlecase in the dictionary

  1. title track
  2. title tracks
  3. title-page
  4. title-pages
  5. titleable
  6. titlecase
  7. titlecased
  8. titlecases
  9. titlecasing
  10. titled
  11. titleholder

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