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pretyping

pretyping is the present participle and gerund of pretype.

Meaning of pretype

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

Questions about pretyping

What is pretyping the present participle and gerund of?
Pretyping is the present participle and gerund of pretype.

Words near pretyping in the dictionary

  1. pretyphoid
  2. pretypified
  3. pretypifies
  4. pretypify
  5. pretypifying
  6. pretyping
  7. pretypographical
  8. pretyrannical
  9. pretyrosine
  10. pretzel
  11. pretzel knot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pretyping (page history and authors); pretype (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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