Typing is the work or activity of typing something by means of a typewriter or word processor.
She didn't do any typing till the evening.
2. uncountable noun [oft poss NOUN]
Typing is the skill of using a typewriter or keyboard quickly and accurately.
My typing is quite dreadful.
Ginny tried to sharpen up some rusty typing skills.
typing in British English
(ˈtaɪpɪŋ)
noun
1.
the work or activity of using a computer keyboard or typewriter
2.
the skill of using a computer keyboard or typewriter quickly and accurately
Examples of 'typing' in a sentence
typing
If I were you I'd start practising your typing and shorthand again.
Gaskin, Catherine THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
From the corridor, the frantic typing was mercifully blurred.
Babson, Marian WEEKEND FOR MURDER
Nigel appeared with some selected files and said Miss Peabody was engaged in typing the appropriate notes to accompany them.
Howatch, Susan ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
In other languages
typing
British English: typing NOUN
Typing is the work or activity of typing something by means of a typewriter or computer keyboard.
I'm taking a typing class.
American English: typing
Brazilian Portuguese: datilografia
Chinese: 打字
European Spanish: mecanografía
French: dactylo
German: Tippen
Italian: dattilografia
Japanese: タイピングの
Korean: 타자
European Portuguese: datilografia
Latin American Spanish: mecanografía
All related terms of 'typing'
type
A type of something is a group of those things that have particular features in common .
typing pool
a group of typists who can work for different people
blood typing
the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
tissue typing
identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation
touch-typing
the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
typing error
an error made while using a keyboard to write something
typing paper
paper suitable for use in a typewriter
typing speed
the number of words someone can accurately type in one minute
shorthand typing
shorthand and typing
type in
If you type information into a computer or type it in , you press keys on the keyboard so that the computer stores or processes the information.
type out
If you type something out , you write it in full using a typewriter or word processor .
type up
If you type up a text that has been written by hand , you produce a typed copy of it.
touch-type
to type without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
sex-typed
characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other