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TYPEWRITE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: typewritten    , typewrote   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write by means of a keyboard with types

Example:

type the acceptance letter, please

Synonyms:

type; typewrite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "typewrite" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "typewrite"):

shift (use a shift key on a keyboard)

backspace (hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard)

double-space (type with a full space between lines)

triple-space (type with two empty spaces between lines)

touch-type (type without looking at the keyboard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

typewriter (hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time)

typewriting (writing done with a typewriter)

Credits

 Context examples: 

When the wire was despatched he had a cup of tea; over it he told me of a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a typewritten copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker's diary at Whitby.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“They are typewritten,” I remarked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So I told them, as well as I could, that I had read all the papers and diaries, and that my husband and I, having typewritten them, had just finished putting them in order.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)