typing

/taɪpɪŋ/

/ˈtaɪpɪŋ/

Typing is the act of writing using a keyboard. If you're sick of writing out your English papers by hand, you might want to take a typing class.

Back in the 1880s, typing meant writing with a typewriter. Today, typing is more likely to refer to entering text on a computer or smartphone. When you're typing, you can use the "hunt and peck" method, in which you push keys one at a time while looking at the keyboard. A typing teacher can help you master touch typing, in which you memorize where each key is, use every finger, and don't need to look at the keyboard.

Definitions of typing

1. noun

   writing done with a typewriter
   synonyms: typewriting

   types:

   double-spacing

   typing that leaves alternate lines blank

   single-spacing

   typing that does not leave lines blank

   triple-spacing

   typing that leaves two lines blank between lines of typing

   touch system, touch typing

   typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys; typist can read and type at the same time

   type of:

   writing

   letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language