Crossword clues for typing
typing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Type \Type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typed; p. pr. & vb. n. Typing.]
To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.]
--White (Johnson).-
To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]
Let us type them now in our own lives.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Assigning or classification by type. 2 (context computing English) the act of typing on a keyboard. vb. (present participle of type English)
WordNet
n. writing done with a typewriter [syn: typewriting]
Wikipedia
Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, cell phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols.
The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin. She was the daughter of Christopher Sholes, the man who invented the first practical typewriter.
User interface features such as spell checker and autocomplete serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make.
Usage examples of "typing".
When an authorized person needs to access the network from offsite, she must first identify herself as an authorized user by typing in her secret PIN and the digits displayed on her token device.
The cablese, the bad typing, and the copy-reading made it just about unintelligible to an outsider.
I waited until his patrol car was at the road before I drove to the newspaper and the busy, busy typing of Cece Dee Falcon, society editor.
The family physician brusquely rejected in the matter of the fibroids is now welcome: the pains are indeed caused by too much typing and secretarial work.
Customarily three Mek specialists connected into the apparatus by wires clipped to their quills sat typing messages as they arrived.
When the charge was made, Amos had taken the trouble to verify the police report: Raff had been released uncharged because tissue typing had shown he could not have been the rapist.
As I finished typing this I realized the idiot machine might lock itself into perpetual motion, grinding out rhymeless, meterless verse forever unless I worked out a way to cancel that command.
Angel is sitting at the computer, typing, doing research on Professor Seidel as Gunn paces behind him.
And finally I must make special mention of Jean Walter, without whoe meticulous typing this book might never have been finished!
I have to share the computer with the autopilot, and typing with an upside-down hand is rather difficult.
A quarter of an hour later the scriptor rang and began typing an incoming message.
But even though Sunny was typing, stapling, and stamping as quickly as she could, her mind was not on secretarial supplies but on the appointment she and her siblings had with Coach Genghis that evening, and what they could do about it.
He tried to hear the rhythms of Alleghenian speech in the sound of the typing, and after a time he decided that there was indeed a certain Allegheny lilt mixed into the rattle of the keys.
When painting proved too difficult, I turned to tracing comic-book characters onto onionskin typing paper, telling myself that I would have come up with Mr.
It was a simple enough job, requiring typing and dictation skills, no more than rudimentary intelligence, and yet it prompted her to explore all the museums and art galleries of the city and to spend most of her vacations, and almost all her money, rummaging through the abbeys and chateaus of Europe, all those tourist bins patrolled by guards who look as though they have just deflowered their own daughters.