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typecasting

typecasting is the present participle and gerund of typecast.

Noun

typecasting (countable and uncountable, plural typecastings)

  1. The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
    • Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.2011, Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990, page 142
  2. The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.
    • Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out...2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
    • Owning vintage typewriters, attending 'type-ins'—congregations of enthusiasts who have typing competitions with one another—and 'typecasting' (typing posts, scanning them and uploading them on to websites) are some of the activities of a new geeky species.2011 May 1, Pronoti Datta, “Keys to the past”, in The Times of India, Mumbai: The Times Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023

Meaning of typecast

Verb

typecast (third-person singular simple present typecasts, present participle typecasting, simple past and past participle typecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) typecasted)

  1. To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly.
  2. To identify one as being of a specific type because of one's appearance, colour, religion etc.
    • The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World
  3. To cast (change of data type of a variable or object).
    • Does anyone know how to typecast a String in Java into an int?
  4. (historical) To found type in a mold.
    • Duensing has elected to resuscitate and typecast faces that in the main might be termed scholarly in nature […]1967, “Inland Printer, American Lithographer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 159, part 2, page 116

See all 5 meanings of typecast

Forms of typecasting

pluraltypecastings

Origin of typecasting

By surface analysis, typecast + -ing.

Questions about typecasting

What does typecasting mean?
Typecasting means the process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
What is typecasting the present participle and gerund of?
Typecasting is the present participle and gerund of typecast.
What part of speech is typecasting?
Typecasting is a noun.
What is the plural of typecasting?
The plural of typecasting is typecastings.

Words near typecasting in the dictionary

  1. typebars
  2. typecase
  3. typecases
  4. typecast
  5. typecasted
  6. typecasting
  7. typecastings
  8. typecasts
  9. typecheck
  10. typechecked
  11. typechecker

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