type
verb/taɪp/
/taɪp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they type | /taɪp/ /taɪp/ |
| he / she / it types | /taɪps/ /taɪps/ |
| past simple typed | /taɪpt/ /taɪpt/ |
| past participle typed | /taɪpt/ /taɪpt/ |
| -ing form typing | /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/ /ˈtaɪpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to write something using a computer keyboard or typewriter
- How fast can you type?
- typing errors
- type something I typed my name and password.
- type something in Type (in) the filename, then press ‘Return’.
- type something out This letter will need to be typed (out) again.
- type something up Have you typed up that report yet?
Extra ExamplesTopics Computersb1- He was sitting at his desk typing furiously.
- Sam typed away for a few minutes.
- She quickly typed back a response.
- She typed her password in.
- She typed the details into the computer.
- 300 proposals and amendments covering 78 closely typed pages
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- correctly
- neatly
- quickly
- …
- into
- on
- [transitive] type somebody/something (specialist) to find out the group or class that a person or thing belongs to
- Blood samples were taken from patients for typing.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘symbol, emblem’): from French, or from Latin typus, from Greek tupos ‘impression, figure, type’, from tuptein ‘to strike’. The use in printing dates from the early 18th cent.; the general sense ‘category with common characteristics’ arose in the mid 19th cent.
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