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TYPING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing done with a typewriter

Synonyms:

typewriting; typing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("typing" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typing"):

double-spacing (typing that leaves alternate lines blank)

single-spacing (typing that does not leave lines blank)

triple-spacing (typing that leaves two lines blank between lines of typing)

touch system; touch typing (typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys; typist can read and type at the same time)

Derivation:

type (write by means of a keyboard with types)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb type

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was a hotchpotch of illiterate abuse of Martin, and of assertion that the so- called Martin Eden who was selling stories to magazines was no writer at all, and that in reality he was stealing stories from old magazines, typing them, and sending them out as his own.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)