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pretype en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + type.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To type in advance.
   • Each depression of the key backs up the display one character, and one can insert a correction before transmission. One can also use all of the "pages" available to pretype text for later transmission […] 1982, CQ, volume 38, number 4, page 30:
   • 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:

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