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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
typing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grammatical/spelling/typing error
▪ You lose marks if your paper contains spelling errors.
typing pool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
error
▪ Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors.
▪ She looked through some copy which her assistant had left on her desk and crossed out a typing error.
▪ Pedantic people are prone to do this with minor typing errors or spelling mistakes.
▪ Circle any typing errors you made on the printout.
pool
▪ They shared a cramped open-plan area in which they were disposed rather in the manner of a traditional typing pool.
▪ Obviously there is pleasure in watching Hollywood recognise intelligent life in the typing pool.
▪ You send a ripple through the typing pool and see how these girls stick together.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've got a lot of typing to do today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Corky's taking an age typing them all in - even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing!
▪ In theory, she studied domestic science - dressmaking and cooking - and took a pitman's correspondence and typing course.
▪ Its feel is absolutely perfect for my typing style, being positive and clicky, with plenty of travel.
▪ Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors.
▪ Should other two-letter codes appear, you will find it possible to continue typing.
▪ They shared a cramped open-plan area in which they were disposed rather in the manner of a traditional typing pool.
▪ When they introduced computers they also taught her typing and keyboard skills.
▪ Worse, the courses which training agencies are likely to offer will be narrow: typing for secretaries, plumbing for plumbers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typing

Type \Type\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typed; p. pr. & vb. n. Typing.]

  1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.]
    --White (Johnson).

  2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]

    Let us type them now in our own lives.
    --Tennyson.

Wiktionary
typing

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
typing

n. writing done with a typewriter [syn: typewriting]

Wikipedia
Typing

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.