typewriter
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈtaɪpˌraɪtər/
- Archaic
:
máquina de escribir
- Nothing drew his notice, not even the Boston fern she put beside her typewriter to mellow it.
- a manual typewriter
- an electric typewriter
- use a typewriter
But to do it on a single typewriter, that would be quite difficult.
- But to do it on a single typewriter, that would be quite difficult.
- He's, he has a typewriter now, OK.
- When I started writing, I had a typewriter.
- We all now type on tablets or computers, but this you might want to type on a typewriter.
- So for instance, the QWERTY keyboard on laptops is a path dependency from the QWERTY keyboard on typewriters.
- We think differently because of this word processor working in a certain way than we used to think when we had typewriters.
- He said that's come from a variable width typewriter font, something like Excelsior.
- They would write a sentence in that typewriter and then throughout the week, different.
- I said I was just a typewriter salesman and now I'm dead and it snows.
- They saw the first form of a telephone, a typewriter.
- I had AI think it's called a Selectric typewriter.
Examples
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We actually had typewriters in that class.
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Bill Beagle stopped at her desk just as she was covering her typewriter for the night.
Fiction book (1991) -
And I went up to my office, my little office, sat down at my typewriter and started to write.
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I need a new typewriter.
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I went from a typewriter to a laptop.
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There was only one manual typewriter in the whole prison.
Academic text (2011) -
The distant sound of a typewriter came to him over the line.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is from Edward Nardella who actually used a typewriter to send me snail mail.
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Meanwhile, Webb claimed there were not enough funds for typewriters in the Ministry of Finance.
Academic text (1994) -
In high school, I learned how to type on a typewriter before we had computers.
Synonyms
2
4.3
A machine that types letters using electricity so you press keys more easily
A machine that makes letters on paper used before computers
Compounds
- Archaic
2
4.3
A machine that types letters using electricity so you press keys more easily
- Archaic
1
5.1
A long narrow strip of fabric covered with ink used in a typewriter to print letters on paper
- Archaic
The part of a typewriter that holds and moves the paper while you type
How Automatic
4
1.3
- Archaic
2
4.3
- Archaic
98
3.2
141
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Typewriter comes from two simple parts: type (the small printed letters) and writer ('one who writes'). So a typewriter is literally a 'letter-writer', a machine that makes letters on paper and was used for writing documents before computers.