typed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of type.

   The clerk typed the report before lunch and left it on my desk.

   Every contract was typed and filed before the office closed for the week.

   Note

   One spelling does the work of two forms: the simple past (she typed the letter) and the participle after have or be (it has been typed). The participle also carries the verb's less obvious meanings. A blood sample is typed in a lab, and specimens can be typed, meaning sorted into kinds. Before a noun, a typed page shades into the "typewritten" adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Produced on a typewriter rather than handwritten.

   He preferred a typed manuscript to a pile of scribbled notes.

   Each page of the application was typed and signed in ink at the bottom.

   Similartypewritten

   Oppositehandwritten

3. 3
   adjective

   Assigned a specific data type.

   Each constant in the file is typed as a floating-point number.

   A typed value carries information about the operations allowed on it.

   Oppositeuntyped

   Note

   A programmer's word for a value that knows what kind of thing it is. A typed variable holds one kind of data, only integers or only strings, and that type decides which operations make sense on it. The word describes the thing itself: a variable, an expression or a value. The sense applied to languages describes instead the rules of the whole system that does the typing.

4. 4
   adjective

   Of a programming language or system, having variables that are assigned data types.

   A statically typed language checks variable types before the program ever runs.

   The team debated whether the new scripting tool should be strongly typed.

   Oppositeuntyped

   Note

   Applied to a language, the word usually arrives with an adverb in front: statically typed, dynamically typed, strongly typed. A statically typed language checks types before a program runs, and a dynamically typed one checks them as it runs. The phrase stays unhyphenated even before a noun (a statically typed language), because adverbs ending in -ly do not take the hyphen. Bare typed, as in Scheme is a typed language, is the broader claim.

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