Meaning of typewriter in English
(Definition of typewriter from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
typewriter | Intermediate English
typewritten
We found several old typewritten manuscripts in the attic.
(Definition of typewriter from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of typewriter
typewriter
Some people just liked making pictures with typewriters.
From The Atlantic
That way we can keep up with the typewriter.
From CBS News
And then, off in the distance, you see a typewriter sitting on a desk.
From Wired
She can't drive a computer mouse now, so she's an old-school writer with an electric typewriter.
From OregonLive.com
Concrete poetry took advantage of the physical machine of the typewriter.
From The Atlantic
Someone in 1980 could have easily come up with a future where people used super-efficient electric typewriters and cordless phones.
From Huffington Post
Typewriters, after all, are much more than mere machines.
From The Atlantic
Among the congenitally blind, however, the imagined typewriter -- a composite of experiences of touch and sound alone -- is the same size at all distances.
From The New Yorker
It shows a young man hard at work on his typewriter.
From Voice of America
Instead, he used a beige terminal the size of a large typewriter, without a mouse or trackpad, for inputting instructions.
From The Atlantic
And it's not as if the over-50s are all reading newspapers and writing each other letters on typewriters, either.
From Business Insider
When a person writes uses a typewriter or a computer, he changes this pattern to a great extent.
From Huffington Post
Somewhere along the line, the phone turned typewriter, and then a computer.
From Fast Company
There he could often be found in one of the facility's large halls, with a typewriter balanced on a tiny desk.
From The New Yorker
He went through several design iterations, attempting to bring the typewriter to market.
From CNET
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タイプライター…
daktilo…
machine [feminine] à écrire, machine à écrire…
màquina d’escriure…
schrijfmachine…
psací stroj…
skrivemaskine…
mesin tik…
เครื่องพิมพ์ดีด…
máy chữ…
maszyna do pisania…
skrivmaskin…
mesin taip…
die Schreibmaschine…
skrivemaskin [masculine], skrivemaskin…
타자기…
друкарська машинка…
macchina da scrivere…