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typing

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈtaɪpɪŋ//

Assignment or classification by type.

noun

  1. 1

    Assignment or classification by type.

    Near-synonyms: classifying, categorizing; classification, categorization; sorting

  2. 2

    Assignment or classification by type. The assignment of data types for variables.

  3. 3

    The act of one who types on a keyboard.

    "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."

Etymology

By surface analysis, type + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of typepresent participle and gerund of type

Forms

plural
typings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).