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pretype

pretype verb: to type in advance.

Verb

pretype (third-person singular simple present pretypes, present participle pretyping, simple past and past participle pretyped)

  1. (transitive) To type in advance.
    • However, some web servers have timeouts on how long they'll wait for a request, so it can be useful to pretype the request and then just paste it into Telnet.2014, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, PHP Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for PHP Programmers
    • Each depression of the key backs up the display one character, and one can insert a correction before transmission. One can also use all of the "pages" available to pretype text for later transmission […]1982, CQ, volume 38, number 4, page 30

Forms of pretype

third-person singular presentpretypes
present participlepretyping
past participlepretyped
pastpretyped

Origin of pretype

From pre- + type.

Questions about pretype

What does pretype mean?
Pretype means to type in advance.
What part of speech is pretype?
Pretype is a verb.
What is the past tense of pretype?
The past tense of pretype is pretyped.

Words near pretype in the dictionary

  1. preturn
  2. preturns
  3. pretween
  4. pretweens
  5. pretwist
  6. pretype
  7. pretyped
  8. pretypes
  9. pretyphoid
  10. pretypified
  11. pretypifies

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