TYPEWRITER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typewriter mean? 

• TYPEWRITER (noun)
  The noun TYPEWRITER has 1 sense:

1. hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time

  Familiarity information: TYPEWRITER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPEWRITER (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 

And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker has written with her typewriter all since she brought the MS. to us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I think of writing another little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its relation to crime.

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

Martin rented a typewriter and spent a day mastering the machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“There is a spirituality about the face, however”—she gently turned it towards the light—“which the typewriter does not generate.”

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

“And, oh! also a typewriter.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had already noticed the peculiarities of the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business address asking him if he would come here.

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

He was a month's rent behind on the typewriter, which he could not pay, having barely enough for the week's board which was due and for the employment office fees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I feel so grateful to the man who invented the "Traveller's" typewriter, and to Mr. Morris for getting this one for me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is a curious thing, remarked Holmes, that a typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man’s handwriting.

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