Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive & transitive verb To engage in writing or to write (matter) with a typewriter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To print or reproduce by means of a type-writer; practise type-writing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb Recent To write with a typewriter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive or intransitive To type using a typewriter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb write by means of a keyboard with types

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from typewriter.]

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Examples

  • When she said, ‘I typewrite,’ it meant that everything is her ear.

    STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

  • He said that if they were sent to the office he would be chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the machine had come between us.

    Sole Music 2010

  • So those fictional royalty statements would come in, the money would be typed in on the green card, the check written out by hand and put into a ledger book by hand, it would come to one of the agents to typewrite out an itemization letter that would go off to the client.

    My Life in Technology, Pt. 1 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • So those fictional royalty statements would come in, the money would be typed in on the green card, the check written out by hand and put into a ledger book by hand, it would come to one of the agents to typewrite out an itemization letter that would go off to the client.

    Archive 2009-03-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • His characters are enmeshed in up-to-date technologies “I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder,” writes Mina Harker; “I used manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done with all the rest” which they use as talismans for warding off against ancient fears.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • His characters are enmeshed in up-to-date technologies “I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder,” writes Mina Harker; “I used manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done with all the rest” which they use as talismans for warding off against ancient fears.

    The Smell of Old Books Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Surprisingly, somebody can make a passable document with an old typewrite, cutting board, and laminator.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003 2003

  • He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventeenth cylinder.

    Dracula 2003

  • You see, she had been in the Navy and she knew how to typewrite.

    Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1975

  • The wife's position stood on four legs: one, she had not written the letter; r two, she had not known that her husband had taken a bribe; three, if she had known he had taken a bribe she certainly wouldn't have told on him; and four, she didn't know how to typewrite.

    Murder By The Book Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1951

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