TYPEWRITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typewriting mean? 

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

1. writing done with a typewriter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPEWRITING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing done with a typewriter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

typewriting; typing

Hypernyms ("typewriting" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typewriting"):

double-spacing (typing that leaves alternate lines blank)

single-spacing (typing that does not leave lines blank)

triple-spacing (typing that leaves two lines blank between lines of typing)

touch system; touch typing (typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys; typist can read and type at the same time)

Derivation:

typewrite (write by means of a keyboard with types)

 Context examples 

For a moment I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Do you not find,” he said, “that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?”

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

Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number—very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir.

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

I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting.

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

Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I earn at typewriting.

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

As she came in, she handed a number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I then glanced at her face, and, observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed to surprise her.

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

We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even the smallest sample of it.

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