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Definition: Typing |
TypingNoun1. Writing done with a typewriter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "typing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | To coin an impression into a cold or hot die block by applying pressure to a male impression. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TypingSynonym: typewriting (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When you come in here and you hear me typing (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) That's when two people actually meet instead of typing to each other over a computer keyboard (The Pretender; writing credit: Katerina Marinaki) | |
Clever | The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This organism causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia and sinusitis, as well as bacteremia, otitis media, meningitis, peritonitis and arthritis. The Neufeld-Quellung test is used in pneumococcus typing. Streptococci. Credit: CDC. |  | [Tom LaPrince typing on a Friden Flexowriter]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Students in typing class in school. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Morgan High School, Clinton, Connecticut. Typing room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Corydon M. Johnson Co., Bethpage, Long Island. Typing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | R.D. Wyly Advertising. Secretary typing documents. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington School for Secretaries. Typing class at Washington School for Secretaries I. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Congratulations : you just spent twelve thousand dollars so she could join the typing pool. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Typing - home" by Bjarte Kvinge Tvedt Commentary: "Typing the way home." | "Keyboard" by John B Commentary: "Just a guy typing on a keyboard hope it helps out who ever uses it l2oot." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Typing on a manual typewriter. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Availability of improved molecular typing methods may assist in epidemiologic studies. (references) | |
Other activities that may aggravate the phenomenon are regular typing and piano playing. (references) | ||
CDC development of new genotyping system for GAS isolates (emm typing) allows better strain identification. (references) | ||
Business | The entrance qualification may be set a little lower than required at universities, but courses offered tend to be more varied and flexible such as typing, IT, marketing management, design in manufacturing or fashion, electronics, etc. At present the technikons are undergoing restructuring. (references) | |
Trade | Colombia | Shipments have been detained indefinitely by Colombian Customs because of improper tariff schedule classification, use of an improper address, or typing errors. (references) |
Argentina | This member of the firm is to be identified by the typing of the full name directly underneath the signature, followed by the typing of his title or position in the firm. (references) | |
Travel | Kuwait | One page of typing of English text costs approximately US$5.00. A business executive hotel guest may use these services on a walk-in basis. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Typing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Typing" is used about 345 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 53.33% | 184 | 22,714 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 46.67% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Total | 100.00% | 345 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "typing": automatic typing ♦ Bacterial Typing Techniques ♦ Bacteriophage Typing ♦ blood typing ♦ layout typing ♦ Mycological Typing Techniques ♦ repetitive typing ♦ shorthand typing ♦ sky typing ♦ strong typing ♦ tissue typing ♦ touch typing ♦ typing error ♦ typing mistake ♦ typing office ♦ typing paper ♦ typing pool ♦ typing speed ♦ weak typing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "typing": typing-pool. | |
Ending with "typing": tissue-typing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
typing test | 4,725 | free typing program | 168 |
typing | 2,254 | work from home typing | 149 |
free typing test | 1,480 | typing skill | 125 |
typing tutor | 1,362 | free typing software | 121 |
online typing test | 586 | typing at home | 116 |
typing game | 542 | typing of the dead | 114 |
free online typing test | 472 | free typing tutorial | 110 |
free typing tutor | 419 | free online typing | 108 |
typing speed test | 406 | typing game online | 96 |
typing lesson | 370 | free online typing lesson | 96 |
free typing lesson | 359 | online typing | 96 |
typing practice | 342 | touch typing | 92 |
speed typing | 306 | typing job | 92 |
typing program | 284 | learn typing | 90 |
free typing | 277 | typing at home job | 88 |
software typing | 266 | blood typing | 86 |
typing tutorial | 266 | timed typing test | 86 |
typing master | 234 | online typing tutor | 82 |
free typing game | 179 | mavis beacon teaches typing | 80 |
work at home typing | 173 | typing test.com | 79 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "typing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | daktilografim. (various references) | |
Arabic | طباعة على الآلة الكاتبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | преписване на пишеща машина. (various references) | |
Chinese | 敲入 (typed). (various references) | |
Czech | psaní na stroji. (various references) | |
Danish | undervisning i maskinskrivning (typewriting course), maskinskrivning (typewriting course), dybprægning (hobbing). (various references) | |
Dutch | typeles (typewriting course), hobben (hobbing). (various references) | |
Finnish | upotus (sinking), upottaminen (immersion), konekirjoitus. (various references) | |
French | dactylographie. (various references) | |
German | tippend, eingebend (Entering, giving, inputting, issuing), abtippend. (various references) | |
Greek | μαθήματα δακτυλογραφίας (typewriting course), τύπωση (printing), δακτυλογραφία (dactylography). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כתבנות (scribbling), הקלדה (entering of data), הדפסה (printing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gépelés. (various references) | |
Italian | impressione (feeling, hunch, impact, impress, impression, imprint, sensation), dattilografia (Typewriting), corso di dattilografia (typewriting course), copiatura (copying, tracing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | タイアップ番組 (error which directly allows a run to score, four-in-hand, good hitting in which a run is scored, RBI, RBI hit, run-batted-in, run-batted-in hit, style, tidal, tie game, tie-up program, tight, tights, tile, time, time clock, time is up, time machine, time-card, timely, timeout, timer, times, time-sheet, time-shift, time-stamp, timing, tire, title, title background, title-region, type, typewriter, typhoon, typist, typography, tyre, video titler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | タイピング , タイプ (style, type). (various references) | |
Korean | 타자를 친, 타자를 침. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ypingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imprensar (impact, sandwich). (various references) | |
Romanian | dactilografiere, dactilografiat. (various references) | |
Russian | переписка на машинке. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kucanje (knock, knocking, rap, throb), daktilografija (dactylography). (various references) | |
Spanish | mecanografía. (various references) | |
Swedish | skriver (sign, writes, writing), maskinskrivning (typewriting). (various references) | |
Turkish | daktilo etme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | передрук (cancel), друкування (impression, pressure, presswork, print, printing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đánh máy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "typing": daguerreotyping, electrotyping, karyotyping, mistyping, pretyping, prototyping, retyping, stenotyping, stereotyping. (additional references) | |
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"Typing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tiesinga, tipring, tpin, typeing, Typen, typi, typin, typng, typog, typsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "typing" (pronounced tī"ping) |
| 4 | -ī" p i ng | griping, hyping, piping, sniping, swiping, wiping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: tying. | |
-2 letters: ping, pint, piny, pity, pyin, ting, tiny, tyin. | |
-3 letters: gin, gip, git, gyp, nip, nit, pig, pin, pit, tin, tip, yin, yip. | |
-4 letters: in, it, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: pitying. | |
+2 letters: egyptian, emptying, partying, puttying, retyping. | |
+3 letters: egyptians, genotypic, mistyping, pityingly, plaything, pratingly, prettying, pretyping, pugnacity, taxpaying, tepefying, trophying, typifying. | |
+4 letters: atrophying, autopsying, decrypting, encrypting, outpitying, outplaying, outpraying, outyelping, panegyrist, petrifying, pigmentary, playacting, playthings, poignantly, portraying, putrefying, sportingly, stupefying, temptingly, trippingly. | |
+5 letters: acceptingly, angioplasty, copycatting, copyediting, cryptogenic, genotypical, hyphenating, hypnotizing, karyotyping, multiplying, panegyrists, pennyweight, phantasying, pharyngitis, photolyzing, placatingly, playactings, playwriting, polygenetic, postsyncing, potteringly, prattlingly, prettifying, proselyting, prototyping, stenotyping, syncopating, tapestrying, tippytoeing, trypsinogen, typecasting, typesetting, typewriting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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