Typewriter Meaning
[ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
nounOne who uses a typewriter; a typist.
Sentence Examples
"I can't think with that noise," she said, as she stared at the typewriter.
If you can use this typewriter perfectly in a month, you may keep it.
Is there any chance of my borrowing your typewriter?
CEFR Practice Quiz
The old office had a manual ____ with keys that pressed ink onto paper.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the past, writers used a mechanical ____ to produce their manuscripts before computers existed.
Word Origin & History
From type + writer.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"So many mongrel words, like typist and typewritist, have been introduced, we propose a fixed designation of—typewriter, to mean the person who writes, and writing machine, the device."
— 1894, Bates Torrey, “Lesson XIII”, in Practical Typewriting: by the All‐Finger Method, Which Leads to Operation by Touch, 3rd edition, New York: Fowler & Wells Co., (59.) Letter Writing, page 26:
"He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day."
— 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
"The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?""
— 1953, Mike Harris, The Southpaw:
"The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads."
— 1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321:
"It was like sinking to sleep in a soft, dry bed with a big drink of brandy in you after you're dog-tired from a tour of duty on the firing-step, or slipping into a warm bath when you're lousy-dirty and chilled to the bone from crawling through mud and filth and dodging flares and 'typewriter' bullets half the night."
— 1996, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Virtuous vampires, page 250:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The old office had a manual ____ with keys that pressed ink onto paper.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the past, writers used a mechanical ____ to produce their manuscripts before computers existed.