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touch-type

touch-type verb: to type with a keyboard or typewriter without having to look at it, knowing where the keys are.

Verb

touch-type (third-person singular simple present touch-types, present participle touch-typing, simple past and past participle touch-typed)

  1. To type with a keyboard or typewriter without having to look at it, knowing where the keys are.

Forms of touch-type

third-person singular presenttouch-types
present participletouch-typing
past participletouch-typed
pasttouch-typed

Questions about touch-type

What does touch-type mean?
Touch-type means to type with a keyboard or typewriter without having to look at it, knowing where the keys are.
What part of speech is touch-type?
Touch-type is a verb.
What is the past tense of touch-type?
The past tense of touch-type is touch-typed.

Words near touch-type in the dictionary

  1. touch-screens
  2. touch-tone
  3. touch-tone dialing
  4. touch-tone dialling
  5. touch-tones
  6. touch-type
  7. touch-typed
  8. touch-types
  9. touch-typing
  10. touch-typist
  11. touch-typists

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