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typewriter
[ tahyp-rahy-ter ]
noun
- a machine for writing mechanically in letters and characters like those produced by printers' types.
- Printing. a type style that gives the appearance of typewritten copy.
- Older Use. a typist.
typewriter
/ ˈtaɪpˌraɪtə /
noun
- 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 )
- printing a style of type resembling typescript
Word History and Origins
Origin of typewriter1
Example Sentences
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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