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typewriter Definition

type·writer (tīprīt′ər)

noun

  1. a writing machine with a keyboard, for reproducing letters or figures that resemble printed ones
  2. a style of printer's type that looks like a typewriter print
  3. typist

Etymology: type + writer: so named (1867), prob. by C. L. Sholes (1819-90), U.S. journalist, who patented the first practical machine (1868)

typewriter Synonyms

typewriter

n.

typing machine, office typewriter, portable, electric typewriter, electronic typewriter, word processor, computer, personal computer, PC, ticker, teletypewriter, mill*, office piano*, typer*.

typewriter Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • replace: For example, replacing typewriters on every desk with computer terminals may only result in faster typing.
  • buy: But Im going to buy a typewriter soon as I can.
  • use: Use a braille typewriter or laptop computer to take notes.
  • give: He had been given a typewriter by Louisa Wallis, wife of the Hollywood producer Hal Wallis, who believed he had talent.
  • have: Typewriters The Library has a portable electronic typewriter which may be borrowed for 48 hours.
  • talk: Subjects range from a Sutton Hoo Helmet, to recollections of childhood, from a talking typewriter to Eugene Shoemaker.

Adjective modifier

  • manual: There is also a manual Greek typewriter for loan.
  • portable: Twenty-five years ago, I did for a period take a portable typewriter to bed to bash out reports from late night council meetings.
  • electric: I used an electric typewriter - at the time a fairly advanced means of production for an amateur working from home.
  • mechanical: The first mechanical typewriter had been patented in 1714.
  • electronic: An electronic typewriter may be appropriate interim provision for a period.
  • old: Much of this material is typed using an old manual typewriter.

Modifies a noun

  • ribbon: Of course, simple typewriter ribbon imprints are nothing compared to the hidden information littered in application data files.
  • font: The generated LaTeX code formats Lisp programs in typewriter font obeying the spacing in the source file.
  • keyboard: Windows 95 provides support for a standard Russian typewriter keyboard.
  • style: The keyboard has 62 small keys that are similar to a calculator rather than typewriter style.
  • key: It was designed to stop frequently used typewriter keys banging into each other.
  • age: They are old-fashioned, look like shouting and belong to the typewriter age when they were the only way to highlight text.

Noun used with modifier

  • braille: Use a braille typewriter or laptop computer to take notes.
  • window: Neither is equipment like window typewriters, cash registers or calculators.
typewriter Quotes

   When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter.When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

—Amis, Martin Louis

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.

—Winner, Langdon

A chair should be judged by one's pants, a jewel by the light in a lady's eyes, a typewriter by the hovering fingers.

—Anonymous

A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact aboutthefilmmakeras opposed toanyother artist: he can never afford his own tools.

—Welles, (George) Orson

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