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TYPEWRITER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("typewriter" is a kind of...):
character-at-a-time printer; character printer; serial printer (a printer that prints a single character at a time)
Meronyms (parts of "typewriter"):
carriage (a machine part that carries something else)
keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)
ribbon; typewriter ribbon (a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter)
typewriter carriage (a carriage for carrying a sheet of paper)
typewriter keyboard (a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typewriter"):
electric typewriter (a typewriter powered by an electric motor)
portable (a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried)
stenograph (a machine for typewriting shorthand characters)
Derivation:
typewrite (write by means of a keyboard with types)
Context examples:
I took the cover off my typewriter, and said to Dr. Seward:—Let me write this all out now.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room, and as I passed a while ago I heard the click of the typewriter.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
By this time my mind was made up that the diary of a doctor who attended Lucy might have something to add to the sum of our knowledge of that terrible Being, and I said boldly:—"Then, Dr. Seward, you had better let me copy it out for you on my typewriter."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"Forgive me," I said: I could not help it; but I had been thinking that it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask, and so that you might not have time to wait—not on my account, but because I know your time must be precious—I have written it out on the typewriter for you.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I got her luggage, which included a typewriter, and we took the Underground to Fenchurch Street, after I had sent a wire to my housekeeper to have a sitting-room and bedroom prepared at once for Mrs. Harker.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also I am practising very hard.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
