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词汇 typewriter
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Definition of typewriter in English:

typewriter

noun ˈtʌɪprʌɪtəˈtaɪpˌraɪdər
  • A machine with keys for producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on paper inserted round a roller.

    打字机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She taps on the manual typewriter, lives in the country house and walks the marshy fields.
    • Wiltshire collector Nick Fisher had brought along 35 manual typewriters from a collection of 200 he started in 1975.
    • The Malhotra parents ran a successful trading business in textiles, typewriters and sewing machines, but Malhotra senior had an eye to the future.
    • There were a couple of electric typewriters, but we had to learn on the manual ones.
    • Your article on new technology prompts me to take time off from phoning our purveyor of electric typewriters with yet another complaint about his technological masterpiece.
    • Others have taken the counter-revolutionary step of actually returning to simpler machines such as typewriters.
    • I loved the reference to manual typewriters - I'd learned to type on one.
    • That hadn't been done yet; paper, pencil and typewriters still ruled.
    • We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
    • IBM has been located in Guadalajara since the 1950s, when it began to make those ‘golf ball’ electric typewriters.
    • Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation.
    • In France there was an important trade with the United States, which imported typewriters, industrial machines, etc.
    • We did have several electric typewriters, and we used the better of the two computers to keyboard accepted manuscripts.
    • Punched cards were used to enter data and the output from the machine was either on punched cards or by an electric typewriter.
    • Typewriting institutes are becoming an oddity, as manual typewriters are swept away by word processing software and computer keyboards.
    • A number of sewing machines and manual typewriters from Kerry have also been donated to the Zambian Mission.
    • The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums.
    • The stories are already largely written for them before the journalists take fingers to typewriters or pen to paper.
    • Today, these notions all sound like a naive echo from the era of idealism, manual typewriters, and rotary phones.
    • Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red.

Derivatives

  • typewriting

  • nounˈtʌɪprʌɪtɪŋˈtaɪpˌraɪdɪŋ
    • In an effort to make the increasingly mechanized work of the office more attractive to women - and more compatible with Victorian ideals of femininity - typewriting was compared with playing the piano.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With the joint effort of Kovai Women's Polytechnic and Samudhaya Polytechnic the prisoners are also coached in tailoring, typewriting, computer and electrical wiring.
      • At the time, typewriting was a new concept and the machine cost $125.
      • Non-design folk have grown accustomed to the default 12’ text of word processing; typewriting as opposed to typesetting.
      • The lengthy intermediate steps from handwriting or even typewriting to the most readable text have now disappeared inside microsecond - long electronic processes.
  • typewritten

  • adjectiveˈtʌɪprɪt(ə)nˈtaɪpˌrɪtn
    • Produced by means of a typewriter or computer, as opposed to being written by hand.

      a typewritten letter
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Old-school journalists believe that newspaper accuracy went to hell when computer technology replaced the typesetter/compositor system in which copy typewritten by reporters was turned into printable type by craftsmen.
      • Inside small ceramic bowls, Cha placed short, typewritten lines on tiny strips of paper joined by thread.
      • Submit eight copies of a one-page typewritten proposal (double-spaced and approximately 200-250 words).

Definition of typewriter in US English:

typewriter

nounˈtīpˌrīdərˈtaɪpˌraɪdər
  • A machine with keys for producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on paper inserted around a roller.

    打字机

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums.
    • That hadn't been done yet; paper, pencil and typewriters still ruled.
    • We did have several electric typewriters, and we used the better of the two computers to keyboard accepted manuscripts.
    • Typewriting institutes are becoming an oddity, as manual typewriters are swept away by word processing software and computer keyboards.
    • Others have taken the counter-revolutionary step of actually returning to simpler machines such as typewriters.
    • There were a couple of electric typewriters, but we had to learn on the manual ones.
    • Your article on new technology prompts me to take time off from phoning our purveyor of electric typewriters with yet another complaint about his technological masterpiece.
    • We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.
    • Today, these notions all sound like a naive echo from the era of idealism, manual typewriters, and rotary phones.
    • Punched cards were used to enter data and the output from the machine was either on punched cards or by an electric typewriter.
    • She taps on the manual typewriter, lives in the country house and walks the marshy fields.
    • A number of sewing machines and manual typewriters from Kerry have also been donated to the Zambian Mission.
    • Wiltshire collector Nick Fisher had brought along 35 manual typewriters from a collection of 200 he started in 1975.
    • The stories are already largely written for them before the journalists take fingers to typewriters or pen to paper.
    • The Malhotra parents ran a successful trading business in textiles, typewriters and sewing machines, but Malhotra senior had an eye to the future.
    • Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation.
    • Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red.
    • In France there was an important trade with the United States, which imported typewriters, industrial machines, etc.
    • IBM has been located in Guadalajara since the 1950s, when it began to make those ‘golf ball’ electric typewriters.
    • I loved the reference to manual typewriters - I'd learned to type on one.
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