typewriter
noun[C]
uk/ˈtaɪpˌraɪ.tər/us/ˈtaɪpˌraɪ.t̬ɚ/amachinewithkeysthat youpresstoproducelettersandnumbersonpaper:
打字机He still uses anoldtypewriter.他还在用一部旧打字机。
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typewriter| American Dictionary
typewriter
noun[C]
us/ˈtɑɪpˌrɑɪ·t̬ər/amachinefor puttingprinton apage,operatedwithkeys
typewritten
adjective[not gradable]us/ˈtɑɪpˌrɪt·ən/
Wefoundseveraloldtypewrittenmanuscriptsin theattic.
typewriter| Business English
typewriter
noun[C]
uk/ˈtaɪpˌraɪtər/usamachinewithkeysthat youpresstoprintlettersandnumbersonpaper:
Typewriters werecommonlyused totypelettersbeforecomputerswere around.
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Sadly, however, he died in 1975, just before the electronic dawn broke for typewriters.
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Clearly there were very few frequent users of dictation or thetypewriter.
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The tape intervenes in the technological gap betweentypewriterand gramophone, presenting a contested space for reader improvisation between writing and sounding.
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Its text base supersedes the old card file just as the word processor has dethroned thetypewriter.
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To improve readability of code, we use an italictypewriterfont for object language programs.
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It would save all users a great deal of time and trouble (only think of thetypewriter!).
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And he'd sit at histypewriterand write a paper.
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Ironically, the final emptying out of local meaning coincided with the introduction of thetypewriter.
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Only 4 were frequent users of thetypewriter: 2 of these combined this with frequent use of the pen or pencil.
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Terminal symbols are written intypewriterstyle; this leaves us, of course, with some ambiguity concerning the blank character.
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I had had some ideas of writing and had bought myself a secondhandtypewriter.
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A contact microphone placed inside thetypewriterwas used for the live processing of the acoustic sound it produced.
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Although a large number of speech error corpora have been amassed, there are not many collections of slips of the pen and thetypewriterkey.
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She rushes to the desk andtypewriterin front of the sofa.
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However, the computer is not merely an audio processor, a calculator, a sequencer or atypewriter.
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