名词 uppercase:

1. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

形容词 uppercase:

1. relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case

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1. Start with an Upper Case Letter.
   以大写字母开始。
2. For English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters.
   就英语而言，排字工人通常有两个字盘，即包含大写字母的上方字盘和包含小写字母的下方字盘。