Definition of Touch-typist

1. Noun. A skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard.

Generic synonyms: Typist
Derivative terms: Touch-type

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch-typist

touch-me-not
touch-move
touch-needle
touch-needles
touch-paper
touch-papers
touch-screen
touch-screens
touch-tone
touch-tone dialing
touch-tone dialling
touch-type
touch-typed
touch-types
touch-typing
touch-typist (current term)
touch-up
touch a chord
touch a nerve
touch a raw nerve
touch and go
touch base
touch bases
touch cell
touch cloth
touch corpuscle
touch down
touch football
touch hole
touch holes

Literary usage of Touch-typist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Getting a Living, a Vocational Civics Text by James Lynn Barnard (1921)
"Speed is also such a big factor that every operator in the large telegraph companies must be an expert touch typist, so that as he hears the sound and ..."

2. Oral English: Or, The Art of Speaking by Antoinette Knowles (1916)
"The "Touch" Typist versus the "Sight" Operator. Value of a Commercial Education. Advantages of Actual Practice in Bookkeeping. Attitude in Business. ..."

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