TYPEWRITE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected forms: typewritten , typewrote

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write by means of a keyboard with types

Example:

type the acceptance letter, please

Synonyms:

type; typewrite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "typewrite" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "typewrite"):

shift (use a shift key on a keyboard)

backspace (hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard)

double-space (type with a full space between lines)

triple-space (type with two empty spaces between lines)

touch-type (type without looking at the keyboard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

typewriter (hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time)

typewriting (writing done with a typewriter)

Credits

Context examples:

When the wire was despatched he had a cup of tea; over it he told me of a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a typewritten copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker's diary at Whitby.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“They are typewritten,” I remarked.

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

So I told them, as well as I could, that I had read all the papers and diaries, and that my husband and I, having typewritten them, had just finished putting them in order.