typing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, type +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: typ‧ing
• Rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ

Noun

typing (countable and uncountable, plural typings)

1. Assigning or classification by type.

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

2. The act of typing on a keyboard.
   • 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:

     "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."

Hyponyms

(computing): Hyponyms of typing

• audio typing
• blood typing
• dependent typing
• DNA typingtissue typing
• duck typing
• dynamic typing
• gradual typing
• latent typing
• manifest typing
• static typing
• strong typing
• substructural typing
• touch-typing
• touch typing
• two-fingered typing
• uniqueness typing
• weak typing

Derived terms

• (computing): subtyping
• typing paper
• typing pool
• mis-typing

Related terms

• typification

Translations

assigning by type

• French: typage (fr) m
• Italian: classificazione (it) f
• Spanish: tipificación f

the act of typing

• Assamese: টাইপ কৰা (taip kora), লিখা (likha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打字 (zh) (dǎzì)

• Finnish: konekirjoitus (fi)
• French: dactylographie (fr) f
• Georgian: აკრეფა (aḳrepa)
• German: Maschinenschreiben n, Tippen n
• Greek: δακτυλογράφηση (el) f (daktylográfisi), πληκτρολόγηση (el) f (pliktrológisi)
• Hungarian: gépelés (hu)
• Irish: clóscríbhneoireacht f, clóscríobh m
• Italian: digitazione (it) f
• Japanese: タイピング (ja) (taipingu), タイプ (ja) (taipu)
• Macedonian: дактилографија f (daktilografija)
• Maori: patopatohanga
• Portuguese: digitação (pt) f
• Russian: печа́тание на маши́нке n (pečátanije na mašínke), печа́тание (ru) n (pečátanije), маши́нопись (ru) f (mašínopisʹ), дактилогра́фия (ru) f (daktilográfija)
• Spanish: tecleado (es) m, tecleo (es) m, tipeo (es) m, taipeo m (Americanism), taipeada f (Americanism)
• Turkish: daktilo ile yazma (tr)

Verb

typing

1. present participle and gerund of type

References

• typing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia