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typewriter
The definition of a typewriter is a machine that prints letters one character at a time on paper that you insert on a roller.
(noun)A machine used before computers were invented that allowed you to type with your hands and print letters on a page was an example of a typewriter.
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See typewriter in Webster's New World College Dictionary
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noun
- a writing machine with a keyboard, for reproducing letters or figures that resemble printed ones
- a style of printer's type that looks like a typewriter print
- typist
Origin: type + writer: so named (1867), prob. by C. L. Sholes (1819-90), U.S. journalist, who patented the first practical machine (1868)
See typewriter in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A writing machine that produces characters similar to typeset print by means of a manually operated keyboard that actuates a set of raised types, which strike the paper through an inked ribbon.
- Printing A typestyle like that of typewritten copy.
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