Literal vs. Typo — What's the Difference?

Conforming or limited to the simplest, nonfigurative, or most obvious meaning of a word or words.

A typographical error.

Word for word; verbatim

A typographical error.

Avoiding exaggeration, metaphor, or embellishment; factual; prosaic

A compositor; a typographer.

Consisting of, using, or expressed by letters

To make a typographical error.

A letter or symbol that stands for itself as opposed to a feature, function, or entity associated with it in a programming language

A compositor.

Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical, and etymonic rather than idiomatic.

A typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc.

Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties

A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

(theology) (broadly) That which generally assumes that the plainest reading of a given scripture is correct but which allows for metaphor where context indicates it; (specifically) following the historical-grammatical method of biblical interpretation

(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters (of an alphabet)

(of a person) Unimaginative; matter-of-fact

(proscribed) Used non-literally as an intensifier; see literally for usage notes.

A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.

(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable. ^Wp

According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase.

Following the letter or exact words; not free.

Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.

Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact; - applied to persons.

Literal meaning.

A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind

Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something;

Without interpretation or embellishment;

Limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text;

Lacking stylistic embellishment;

Of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis;

(of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original;