Dictionary

typewriter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)] (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From type + writer.

Meanings

1. A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
2. (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
   • 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:
   • Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters." 2005, R. Derby Holmes, A Yankee in the Trenches, page 60:
   • Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter, with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed — 2001, Fredric Brown, Ben Yalow, From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown, page 234:
   • 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:
4. A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.

Forms

Deriveds

TV typewriter · typewriter apostrophe · telephone typewriter · memory typewriter · Jewish typewriter · typewriterless · typewritery · Chicago typewriter · typewriter-paired · microtypewriter · typewriterlike · blind typewriter

Relateds

write · touch-typist · typewrite · typist · type

Synonyms

typist (one who uses a typewriter) · typographer

Translations (147)

uk друка́рська маши́нка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · jv mesin tik (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ar آلَة طَابِعَة (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ia machina de scriber (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sv skrivmaskin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ja 印字機 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · km អង្គុលីលេខ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · fi konekirjoittaja (one who uses a typewriter) · sh kucač (one who uses a typewriter) · es dactilógrafo (one who uses a typewriter) · sl pisalni stroj (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ja タイプライター (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · vo hiklavan (one who uses a typewriter) · sq makinë shkrimi (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · de Schreibmaschine (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sv maskinskrivare (one who uses a typewriter) · lo ເຄື່ອງພິມດີດ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · mg milina fanoratana (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · scn dattilòggrafu f scritturi a màchina (one who uses a typewriter) · ur ٹائِپ رائِٹَر (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tg мошинкаи чоп (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ko 타이피스트 (one who uses a typewriter) · sh писаћа машина (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sh pisaća mašina (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ko 타이프라이터 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · scn màchina di scrìviri (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · is ritvél (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · si යතුරු ලියනය (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tr daktilo (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nv béésh bee akʼeʼelchíhí (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sk písací stroj (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ky жазуучу машинка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · is vélritari (one who uses a typewriter) · aii ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܟܵܬܘܿܒ݂ܘܼܬܵܐ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · vi máy chữ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · lt rašomoji mašinėlė (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · es máquina de escribir (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · az maşınka (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ko 타자기 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hu gépírónő (one who uses a typewriter) · cmn 打字員 /打字员 (one who uses a typewriter) · sv skrivmaskinist (one who uses a typewriter) · fi kirjoituskone (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sh pisaći stroj (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · kk жазатын машина (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hrx Schreibmaschin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · lv rakstāmmašīna (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · pl maszynistka (one who uses a typewriter) · fa-ira ماشینِ تَحْریر (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hsb pisanska mašina (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ny cholembera (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nn skrivemaskin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ga clóscríobhán (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · es mecanógrafo (one who uses a typewriter) · ba яҙыу машинкаһы (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · fr dactylo (one who uses a typewriter) · bn টাইপরাইটার (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tl limbitan (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tr daktilo makinesi (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · es tipiadora (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · be пі́шучая машы́нка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · dsb pisańska mašina (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ru машини́стка (one who uses a typewriter) · ar مِكْتَاب (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hu gépíró (one who uses a typewriter) · ta தட்டச்சுக் கருவி (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · id mesin tulis (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · lb Schreifmaschinn (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · el γραφομηχανή (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sw taipureta (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tt язу машинкасы (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ug خەت بېسىش ماشىنىسى (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · da maskinskriver (one who uses a typewriter) · da skrivemaskine (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · mk машина за пишување (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · gd clò-sgrìobhadair (one who uses a typewriter) · pl maszyna do pisania (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ka საწერი მანქანა (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ko 타자수 (one who uses a typewriter) · yi שרײַבמאַשין (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nl schrijfmachine (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · et kirjutusmasin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · cy teipiadur (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nrf machinne à êcrithe (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · pdt Schriewmaschien (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ast máquina d'escribir (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · cs psací stroj (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ms mesin taip (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · af tikmasjien (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · az yazı makinası (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ja タイピスト (one who uses a typewriter) · vi máy đánh chữ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ro dactilografă (one who uses a typewriter) · nl typmachine (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hi टाइपराइटर (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ar آلَة كَاتِبَة (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · eu idazmakina (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tr yazı makinesi (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ca màquina d'escriure (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ru пи́шущая маши́нка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nl typemachine (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · fr machine à écrire (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · is ritari (one who uses a typewriter) · gd clò-sgrìobhadair (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · gd clò-sgrìobhaiche (one who uses a typewriter) · tk ýazuw maşynkasy (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hy գրամեքենա (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ro dactilograf (one who uses a typewriter) · aii ܟܵܬܘܿܒ݂ܬܵܐ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ru печа́тная маши́нка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · su mesin tik (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ro mașină de scris (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · el δακτυλογράφος (one who uses a typewriter) · th เครื่องพิมพ์ดีด (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · tl makinilya (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · pa ਟਾਈਪਰਾਈਟਰ (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · cmn 打字機 /打字机 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · id mesin tik (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · gl máquina de escribir (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sh писаћи строј (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · mww lub tshuab ntaus ntawv (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nb skrivemaskin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · eo tajpilo (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ko 인자기 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · it macchina da scrivere (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · pt máquina de escrever (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sip ལྕགས་པར (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · mn бичгийн машин (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · vo jiklavan (one who uses a typewriter) · uz yozuv mashinkasi (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · eo skribmaŝino (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ug ماشىنكا (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · he מְכוֹנַת כְּתִיבָה (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · nan-hbl 拍字機 /拍字机 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · vo klavan (one who uses a typewriter) · bg пи́шеща маши́на (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · rsk писаца машина (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · es maquinilla (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · uz mashinka (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · yue 打字機 /打字机 (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · my လက်နှိပ်စက် (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · sh kucar (one who uses a typewriter) · rsk писаца машинка (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · es tipiador (one who uses a typewriter) · vo penamacin (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · hu írógép (machine used to print text by pressing keys) · ia dactylographo (machine used to print text by pressing keys)

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