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to touch-type

to touch-type

4.2
To type on a keyboard without looking at the keys using memory to find the letters
  • verb
  • /tʌtʃ taɪp/
translation icon : escribir a ciegas
  • After practicing for months, she can now touch-type quickly without looking at the keyboard.

Examples

  • And then I would know how to touch type, which I don't, and it's too late now to.

  • And then I turn the screen off and just touch type what I can remember while my eyes are closed.

  • And then I would know how to touch type, which I don't, and it's too late now to.

  • He lugged it into the Seagram room where he ostentatiously offered to touch-type a page of the sales report.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Learning to touch-type helped him write reports faster and more accurately.

  • If you want to save time while working, it is essential to touch-type instead of looking at the keys.

How Fast

to touch-type
4.2
to type
367 1.0

Surface Forms

touch-type infinitive
touch-typed past
touch-typed past participle
touch-typing present participle
touch-types third person singular

Morphology

touch-type = touch + type (transparent) = touch + type

Meaning is directly built from 'touch' + 'type' (type using touch rather than looking), which learners can infer from the components.

Etymology

Touch-type combines touch ('feel') and type ('write letters on a keyboard'). So to touch-type is to 'type' by 'feeling' the keys without looking at them, usually after training your fingers to find the keys automatically.