Typecasting

Quick meaning: Typecasting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of typecast.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of typecast.

More Meanings

1. The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
2. (typosphere) The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.

Example Sentences

Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• typecastings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include type, recasting, upcast, racebending, megacasting, recharacterization.

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