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typewriter

[ tahyp-rahy-ter ]

noun

  1. a machine for writing mechanically in letters and characters like those produced by printers' types.
  2. Printing. a type style that gives the appearance of typewritten copy.
  3. Older Use. a typist.


typewriter

/ ˈtaɪpˌraɪtə /

noun

  1. a keyboard machine for writing mechanically in characters resembling print. It may be operated entirely by hand ( manual typewriter ) or be powered by electricity ( electric typewriter )
  2. printing a style of type resembling typescript
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of typewriter1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; type + writer
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Example Sentences

The lilting melody is interrupted by the clacking of a typewriter, as Dylan hammers out lyrics, smokes a cigarette and chats with manager Albert Grossman.

My father had this typewriter when he’s 90, and he always had a ribbon.

From Ozy

Arthur Scherbius, Enigma’s inventor, built what looked like a close relative of a typewriter.

He used a Braille typewriter early in his career but spent decades working with amanuenses, dictating to them pages that he wrote in his head and revised out loud — millions of words in all, spanning 27 books.

Even before he graduated, he took a job at the commissioners’ office, hired in 1889 as a “stenographer and typewriter.”

Back when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.

The most popular gift in Hollywood this Christmas is a typewriter.

The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.

Arbor House is paying Leonard $3 million for Freaky Deaky, the one in the typewriter now, and the one after it.

Slightly deeper, a man sits alone at a table with a typewriter—The Lost Correspondent.

I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.

As it was vacation week, she let Jess go right ahead to settle things while she stuck to the typewriter.

The lieutenants and sergeants flushed; the girl privates jumped their fingers onto typewriter keys.

She'd had the clatter of my typewriter dinned into her pretty ears all day, and she knew who I was, even if it was dark.

Isal-ub (sal-úba) ang hapin sa makinilya, Put the cover on the typewriter.

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