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Typing type
Answer for the clue "Typing type ", 4 letters:
pica
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pica or PICA may refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.] (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context medicine English) A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context typography printing uncountable English) A size of type between small ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"size of type of about six lines to the inch" (12 point), 1580s, probably from pica , name of a book of rules in Church of England for determining holy days (late 15c. in Anglo-Latin), probably from Latin pica "magpie" (see pie (n.2)); the book so called ...
Usage examples of pica.
The three were sitting in the smoky shadows of the Mos Eisley Cantina, sipping green Pica Thundercloud and watching the bounty hunters drift in from around the galaxy: Weequays, Aqualish, Arcona, Defels, Kauronians, Fneebs, Quill-heads, Bomodons, Alpheridians - and the inevitable Ganks.
Sus articulaciones crujieron como bisagras oxidadas cuando los gigantes recogieron sus picas y sus alabardas y se pusieron de pie.
Men had always pushed forward across Pica as they pleased, not least because sims lacked the bns to fight back.
Junto a ellos había alabardas y picas con hojas de cobre apoyadas sobre las paredes o tiradas en el suelo.
But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.