資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Capital letter} [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), a leading or
heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as
the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the
most part, both by different form and larger size, from
the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater
part of common print or writing.
{Small capital letters} have the form of capital letters and
height of the body of the lower-case letters.
{Capital stock}, money, property, or stock invested in any
business, or the enterprise of any corporation or
institution. --Abbott.
Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent.
資料來源 : WordNet®
capital letter
n : one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first
letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes
for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals
and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were
kept in the upper half of the type case and so became
known as upper-case letters" [syn: {capital}, {upper case},
{upper-case letter}, {majuscule}] [ant: {small letter}]