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 atypewriter .
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
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Examples
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When she said, ‘I typewrite,’ it meant that everything is her ear.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Surprisingly, somebody can make a passable document with an old typewrite, cutting board, and laminator.
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He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventeenth cylinder.
Dracula 2003
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You see, she had been in the Navy and she knew how to typewrite.
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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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