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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Shelby Foote

Meaning of "typewriter" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TYPEWRITER

typewriter  [ˈtaɪpˌraɪtə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TYPEWRITER

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conjunction
determiner
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Typewriter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TYPEWRITER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Typewriter

A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper. Typically one character is printed per keypress. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. A video on the history of typewriters and how they operate. 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. 1920s Underwood typewriter with Swedish layout. This video shows the operation of a typewriter. Disassembled parts of an Adler Favorit mechanical typewriter.

Definition of typewriter in the English dictionary

The definition of typewriter in the dictionary is a keyboard machine for writing mechanically in characters resembling print. It may be operated entirely by hand or be powered by electricity. Other definition of typewriter is a style of type resembling typescript.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TYPEWRITER


baryta
bəˈraɪtə
braillewriter
ˈbreɪlˌraɪtə
copyrighter
ˈkɒpɪˌraɪtə
copywriter
ˈkɒpɪˌraɪtə
cowriter
ˈkəʊˌraɪtə
letter-writer
ˈlɛtəˌraɪtə
microwriter
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌraɪtə
reiter
ˈraɪtə
righter
ˈraɪtə
Ruyter
ˈraɪtə
screenwriter
ˈskriːnˌraɪtə
scriptwriter
ˈskrɪptˌraɪtə
skywriter
ˈskaɪˌraɪtə
songwriter
ˈsɒŋˌraɪtə
speechwriter
ˈspiːtʃraɪtə
subwriter
ˈsʌbˌraɪtə
teletypewriter
ˌtɛlɪˈtaɪpˌraɪtə
telewriter
ˈtɛlɪˌraɪtə
underwriter
ˈʌndəˌraɪtə
writer
ˈraɪtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TYPEWRITER

type foundry
type I error
type II error
type metal
type specimen
type-high
typebar
typecase
typecast
typecaster
typecasting
typeface
typescript
typeset
typesetter
typesetting
typewrite
typewriting
typewritten
typewrote

WORDS THAT END LIKE TYPEWRITER

CD writer
crime writer
DVD writer
electric typewriter
electronic typewriter
feature writer
ghost writer
hack writer
horror writer
insurance underwriter
liter
lyric writer
manual typewriter
prose writer
serial writer
short story writer
sign writer
singer-songwriter
sports writer
sportswriter
story writer

Synonyms and antonyms of typewriter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «typewriter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TYPEWRITER

Find out the translation of typewriter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of typewriter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «typewriter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

打字机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

máquina de escribir
570 millions of speakers

English

typewriter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टाइपराइटर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

آلَةٌ كَاتِبَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

печатная машинка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

máquina de escrever
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মুদ্রলিখ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

machine à écrire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mesin taip
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schreibmaschine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

タイプライター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

타자기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mesin tik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

máy chữ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தட்டச்சு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टाइपराइटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

daktilo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

macchina da scrivere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maszyna do pisania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

друкарська машина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mașină de scris
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γραφομηχανή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tikmasjien
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrivmaskin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skrivemaskin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of typewriter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TYPEWRITER»

The term «typewriter» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.602 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TYPEWRITER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «typewriter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «typewriter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about typewriter

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10 QUOTES WITH «TYPEWRITER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word typewriter.
1
Lynn Abbey
No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
2
Paul Auster
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
3
Gioconda Belli
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it.
4
Robert Benchley
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
5
Matt Blunt
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
6
Gerald Brenan
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
7
Octavia E. Butler
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
8
Guy Davenport
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.
9
Buchi Emecheta
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
10
Shelby Foote
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TYPEWRITER»

Discover the use of typewriter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to typewriter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Typewriter: An Illustrated History : Typewriter Topics
Very rare volume features every known model up until 1923. Over 280 varieties include the Yu Ess, Dactygam, Dollar, Ford, Hammond, Oliver, Remington, L. C. Smith, and Underwood. 165 halftones, 95 line illustrations.
Victor M. Linoff, 2000
2
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late 19th century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these media—including texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, ...
Friedrich A. Kittler, 1999
3
Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the ...
That afternoon, Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father’s protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is her story.
Carmen Bugan, 2012
4
Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of ...
Sharon Hartman Strom details office working conditions and practices, drawing upon archival and anecdotal data.
Sharon H. Strom, 1994
5
The Typewriter Sketchbook
The book provides many hours of happy browsing and a wealth of information relating to the earliest days of the typewriter and the rise of women in the office.
Paul Robert, 2007
6
Typewriter in the Sky
Modern man Mike de Wolf gets stranded in a pirate adventure being written by his friend Horace Hackett and finds himself fighting for his life as the villainous Miguel de Lobo, while trying to figure out how to extricate himself from Horace ...
L. Ron Hubbard, 1995
7
The Type-Writer Girl
The typewriter (in the nineteenth century, "typewriter" referred to both the machines and their mainly female operators) occupies an uneasy space in late Victorian fiction. The increasing numbers of women entering the work force in the late ...
Grant Allen, Clarissa Suranyi, 2003
8
Fundamental Keyboarding Skills: From the Typewriter to the ...
This book is a reference guide in understanding the evolution of keyboarding from the typewriter to the computer. This 13 page book is a must read and apply. Develop and sharpen your keyboarding skills in this easy read book today!
Denise Chambers, 2008
9
Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture
Funny, engaging, and provocative, this collection continues Stavans’s project of opening new vistas in our cross-cultural understanding of language, literature, and life.
Ilan Stavans, 2012
10
The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of ...
Chronicles the lives of key contributors and offers insight into their lasting influence, featuring coverage of the stories surrounding such publications as Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Bill Morgan, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TYPEWRITER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term typewriter is used in the context of the following news items.
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Giant typewriter sculpture coming to the Greenway
The larger-than-life project is a 24-to-1-scale model of a 1927 Underwood Standard Portable typewriter — one that's big enough to climb on — that will be ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
2
Obsolete jobs: Meet the guy who fixes Tom Hanks' typewriter
gramercy typewriter Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter is still repairing typewriters after 55 years in the business. These refurbished models are for sale. «CNNMoney, Mar 15»
3
Hemingwrite digital typewriter looks to let you write in peace
For more than a century typewriters were the weapon of choice for professional writers, office workers and those of us with messy handwriting. Then came the ... «Gizmag, Dec 14»
4
Angelina Jolie Plunks Down Thousands for Brad Pitt Wedding …
1107_ernest_hemingway_typewriter_launch Angelina Jolie put down thousands of dollars on the last typewriter Ernest Hemingway used before killing himself ... «TMZ.com, Nov 14»
5
The Case Against Typewriters
Next, Hanks revealed that he is working on a collection of these gems, a book inspired by his perverse fetish for typewriters. Finally, the conductor of the Polar ... «Flavorwire, Nov 14»
6
Book News: Tom Hanks Turns To The Typewriter For His Debut …
His obsession with typewriters, however, is nothing new. In introducing his Hanx Writer, an iPad app that clacks out the sound of the typewriter as you tap on the ... «NPR, Nov 14»
7
The Comic Sans Typewriter Is Finally Here
We've all had this thought: Why can't my typewriter use the Comic Sans typeface? Well, if you like Comic Sans, you may have had that thought, anyway. And if ... «TIME, Oct 14»
8
In Tom Hanks' iPad App, Typewriters Make Triumphant Return (Ding!)
Tom Hanks' love affair with typewriters began in the 1970s, with his first proper typewriter — a Hermes 2000. Typewriters are "beautiful works of art," he tells ... «NPR, Sep 14»
9
Tale of the dueling typewriter apps
Hanx Writer "re-creates the experience of a manual typewriter, but with the ease and speed of an iPad." Which means yes, you get to continues using your ... «Los Angeles Times, Aug 14»
10
The London Times Is Blasting Reporters With Typewriter Sound Effects
Rupert Murdoch must be feeling nostalgic: Reporters in The Times UK's newsroom are working under a constant soundtrack of (artificial) typewriter clatter. «Gizmodo, Aug 14»

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