typecasting

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English

Etymology

By surface analysis, typecast +‎ -ing.

Verb

typecasting

  1. 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.
    • 2011, Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990, page 142:
      Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.
  2. (typosphere) The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.
    • 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 original on 2024-01-18:
      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 typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom.
    • 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 March 2023:
      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.
    • 2015 November 30, Rebecca Rego Barry, “Typists of the world, unite! A new book looks inside the 'typosphere'”, in The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:
      Having collected typewriters for more than 20 years, Polt decided to join the "typosphere" and start "typecasting". Simply put, he uses a typewriter to capture his thoughts, then scans the page and uploads it to his blog.

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