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typewriter
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE electric ▪ The electric typewriter was covered by its hood and would remain covered while he was still there. ▪ Downstairs, Yoyo found her father setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto paper. Typically one ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper. 2 (context archaic English) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in the mechanical sense, 1868, from type (n.) + writer . Related: Type-write (v.) "print by means of a typewriter;" type-written (1882).
Usage examples of typewriter.
He was sitting at a desk, there, Bowie, when we went in, just pecking away at an old Oliver typewriter and I had to almost kick the chair out from under him.
There was just the background clacketing of the typewriter at the other end.
I could hear the muffled sound of a busy office, typewriters clacketing, phones ringing, voices shouting from one desk to another.
I walked between a lot of cigarette-scarred desks holding ancient typewriters, saw Phil Dobe look up from the city desk and spot me.
Modyifying the electromatic typewriters to deal with this is, of course, trivial.
As the sheets had emerged from the electromatic typewriters, the monks had carefully cut them up and pasted them into enormous books.
Modifying the electromatic typewriters to deal with this is, of course, trivial.
I set my typewriter on it and opened the sliding door onto a rare fogless day.
Dorsey Hough had a radio turned on full blast so he could hear it over the chatter of typewriters as sailors with headsets kept the message traffic of the Pacific Fleet flowing to Okinawa, San Francisco, Midway Island, and the ships at sea.
The red-bearded technician had left the room, and Kelty had crossed to a kind of typewriter keyboard set out from the wall.
He gazed about the interior of the noser, conscious of the ungainly piles of clothing, books, records, kitchen appliances, typewriter, medical supplies, pictures, wear-forever couch covers, chess set, reference tapes, communications gear and junk, junk, junk.
It was bright yet not too orchidaceous, though it had been decorated at a period when America had been roused to a mania for wildly coloured bathrooms, stoves, stew-pans, typewriters, even toilet paper.
But before the subinspector could slip back into his office and the safe din of the typewriters, he was barked at by Detective Patel, too.
Mayor Ricketts, with guns that we hide in his house, and the note that we fake on his typewriter.
The device resembled an old-fashioned typewriter with brass interlocking rotos that revolved in intricate ways and shuffled cleartext into confounding arrays of seemingly senseless character groupings.