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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
typewriter
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.
▪ Lying waiting on a desk was a portable electric typewriter and a stack of copy paper.
▪ Electronic text-processors are called word-processors, and are joint products of the computer and the electric typewriter.
▪ So: you type it out on an electric typewriter on A4 or A5 size paper.
▪ Thus you can run thirty electric typewriters off one 13 amp socket but only three 800 watt lamps.
electronic
▪ A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines, electronic typewriters, and flexible electronic workstations.
▪ The character generator operates like an electronic typewriter, printing titles on the screen.
▪ He told the assistant that he was considering buying an electronic typewriter.
▪ At his farewell, the Company presented with an electronic typewriter, fitted with all the latest software.
▪ Word processors electronic typewriters and printers tend to favour certain layouts over others.
manual
▪ A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard.
▪ After all, the idea that quantity means quality is as outdated as a manual typewriter.
▪ He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.
▪ The workers there were still using manual typewriters.
▪ The author works on a real actual finger-driven, manual typewriter.
▪ Somewhere in the whitewashed recesses of the building a secretary tapped in indecisive spurts on a manual typewriter.
▪ The one-dimensional man, whose life collapsed upon retirement, was as anachronistic as the manual typewriter.
old
▪ An old Adler typewriter crashed against the wall only inches from Cally's head.
▪ There was an old typewriter in the rumpus room.
▪ No doubt she had felt safe: probably she still had his old typewriter, not greatly used since the separation.
▪ He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window.
▪ He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter.
▪ So we apologise for the standard of typing ... Penny's grandpa's old typewriter is a real character!!!
▪ See, with bits of paper, pictures from magazines, glue, an old typewriter, this brain, and colours.
▪ The word processor proved to be, and still is, a joy after my own old typewriter at home.
portable
▪ He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
▪ Joe sat down at his portable typewriter and pecked out the words as Wallace and Vincent collaborated in dictating the message.
▪ You may find you are expected to use a portable typewriter.
▪ My baby-blue Smith-Corona portable typewriter.
▪ I also carried a small portable typewriter, only slightly younger than I was.
▪ My baby-blue portable Smith-Corona typewriter has been a gift from my parents a year before, in anticipation of my attending college.
▪ Lying waiting on a desk was a portable electric typewriter and a stack of copy paper.
■ NOUN
key
▪ He defaced the typewriter keys with a file and made a special trip to Hertfordshire to drop it in a reservoir.
▪ He brought his hands up to the typewriter keys and forced himself to begin.
■ VERB
sit
▪ He sat in front of the white typewriter, listening to the ticking of the clock in the corner by the window.
use
▪ Still, doing these rather than the outstanding equipment performance reports means that he doesn't have to use of the typewriter.
▪ By her third semester Tammy had begun using a typewriter, or one of the City College computers.
▪ You may find you are expected to use a portable typewriter.
▪ The workers there were still using manual typewriters.
▪ When computers first appeared in offices in the late 1970s, they were used as glorified typewriters by secretaries.
▪ Belated adopters kept using their typewriters.
▪ Word-processors, because of their general similarity with the typewriter, are exceptionally easy to use - as a typewriter!
▪ It also provides you the same opportunity if revisions are necessary. Use a new typewriter ribbon for your final draft.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After he drifted off I got up from my typewriter, knelt beside the couch and stared at his face.
▪ Any room into which Harvey put his typewriter he called his office.
▪ Both his hands disappear in the back of my typewriter.
▪ I took my bicycle on the train, with two packs slung on the back and a typewriter.
▪ It should, however, be enough to say that the Enigma machine looked like a large, clumsy, old-fashioned typewriter.
▪ It was all hands to the pumps, or the typewriters or the files or the photocopier, as appropriate.
▪ Pencils, pens, a typewriter.
▪ They can also buy equipment such as a typewriter or calculator.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typewriter

Typewriter \Type"writ`er\, n.

  1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

  2. One who uses such an instrument.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
typewriter

in the mechanical sense, 1868, from type (n.) + writer. Related: Type-write (v.) "print by means of a typewriter;" type-written (1882).

Wiktionary
typewriter

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
typewriter

n. hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time

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Wikipedia
Typewriter

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 character is printed on each keypress. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing.

At the end of the nineteenth century the term typewriter was also applied to a person who used such a machine.

After their invention in the 1860s, typewriters quickly became indispensable tools for practically all writing other than personal correspondence. They were widely used by professional writers, in offices, and for business correspondence in private homes. By the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers had largely displaced typewriters in most of these uses in the Western world, but as of the 2010s the typewriter is still prominent in many parts of the world, including India.

Notable typewriter manufacturers included E. Remington and Sons, IBM, Imperial Typewriters, Oliver Typewriter Company, Olivetti, Royal Typewriter Company, Smith Corona, Underwood Typewriter Company, Adler Typewriter Company and Olympia Werke.

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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.