TYPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typing mean? 

• TYPING (noun)
  The noun TYPING has 1 sense:

1. writing done with a typewriter

  Familiarity information: TYPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing done with a typewriter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

typewriting; typing

Hypernyms ("typing" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typing"):

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)

Derivation:

type (write by means of a keyboard with types)

 Context examples 

The typing, separation, and storage of leukocytes for subsequent transfusion to recipients.

(Leukocyte Banking, NCI Thesaurus)

Hundreds of DRB alleles have been described and typing for these polymorphisms is done for transplantation.

(HLA Class II Histocompatibility Antigen DRB, NCI Thesaurus)

The most frequently used typing systems are bacteriophage typing, serotyping, bacteriocin typing, and biotyping.

(Bacterial Typing Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

This parasite may have always infected people in this region but gone misdiagnosed as P. vivax, they write, because molecular typing techniques were not available.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

First, they found that the volunteers’ performance improved primarily during the short rests, and not during typing.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

The gene has several hundred alleles and polymorphism typing is routinely performed for bone marrow and kidney transplantation.

(HLA-DRB1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure to manufacture blood group antigens or cellular reagents for donor and recipient typing of blood or organs.

(Antigen Reagent Production, NCI Thesaurus)

The gene is polymorphic and typing is often performed to determine histocompatibility for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

(HLA-DPA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

You use your fingers and thumbs to do everything from grasping objects to playing musical instruments to typing.

(Finger Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

We are not suggesting that we should be blood typing all individuals with diarrhoea, but individuals with blood group A appear to be at highest risk for severe infection and stand to benefit the most in terms of preventing the most severe form of illness, Fleckenstein tells.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)