Meanings
plural typings
- countableuncountableAssignment or classification by type.
Near-synonyms: classifying, categorizing; classification, categorization; sorting
Synonyms: classifying, categorizing, classification, categorization, sorting
- countableuncountablecomputerThe assignment of data types for variables.
Synonyms: classifying, categorizing, classification, categorization, sorting
- countableuncountableThe act of one who types on a keyboard.
"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."
2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of type
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAssignment or classification by type.
nounThe assignment of data types for variables.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
By surface analysis, type + -ing.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 打字
- 打字 (dǎzì)the act of typing
Finnish tyypitys, konekirjoitus
- tyypityscomputer science
- konekirjoitusthe act of typing
French typage, dactylographie
- typageassigning by type
- dactylographiethe act of typing
German Maschinenschreiben, Tippen
- Maschinenschreibenthe act of typing
- Tippenthe act of typing
Greek δακτυλογράφηση, πληκτρολόγηση
- δακτυλογράφηση (daktylográfisi)the act of typing
- πληκτρολόγηση (pliktrológisi)the act of typing
Hungarian gépelés
- gépelésthe act of typing
Irish clóscríbhneoireacht, clóscríobh
- clóscríbhneoireachtthe act of typing
- clóscríobhthe act of typing
Italian classificazione, digitazione
- classificazioneassigning by type
- digitazionethe act of typing
Japanese タイピング, タイプ
- タイピング (taipingu)the act of typing
- タイプ (taipu)the act of typing
Korean 타자
- 타자 (taja)the act of typing
Māori patopatohanga
- patopatohangathe act of typing
Polish klasyfikacja, pisanie na klawiaturze
- klasyfikacjaassigning by type
- pisanie na klawiaturzethe act of typing
Portuguese digitação
- digitaçãothe act of typing
Russian печа́тание на маши́нке, печа́тание
- печа́тание на маши́нке (pečátanije na mašínke)the act of typing
- печа́тание (pečátanije)the act of typing
- маши́нопись (mašínopisʹ)the act of typing
- дактилогра́фия (daktilográfija)the act of typing
Spanish tipificación, tecleado
- tipificaciónassigning by type
- tecleadothe act of typing
- tecleothe act of typing
- tipeothe act of typing
- taipeothe act of typing
- taipeadathe act of typing
Turkish daktilo ile yazma
- daktilo ile yazmathe act of typing
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with typing
All rhymes →Cite this entry
typing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typing
“typing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “typing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typing.
Source: typing on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.