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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈtaɪpˌɹaɪtə(ɹ)]
typewriter (plural typewriters)
- A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
- (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
1953, Mike Harris, The Southpaw:
The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?"
- (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321:
The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.
1996, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Virtuous vampires, page 250:
It was like sinking to sleep in a soft, dry bed with a big drink of brandy in you after you're dog-tired from a tour of duty on the firing-step, or slipping into a warm bath when you're lousy-dirty and chilled to the bone from crawling through mud and filth and dodging flares and 'typewriter' bullets half the night.
2001, Fredric Brown, Ben Yalow, From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown, page 234:
Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter, with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed —
2005, R. Derby Holmes, A Yankee in the Trenches, page 60:
Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."
- A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.
- typographer
- (one who uses a typewriter): typist
machine used to print text by pressing keys
- Albanian: makinë shkrimi f
- Arabic: آلَة كَاتِبَة f (ʔāla kātiba), مِكْتَاب m (miktāb), آلَة طَابِعَة f (ʔāla ṭābiʕa)
- Armenian: գրամեքենա (hy) (gramekʻena)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܬܘܿܒ݂ܬܵܐ f (kātōḇtā), ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܟܵܬܘܿܒ݂ܘܼܬܵܐ m (sqēwā d-kātoḇutā)
- Asturian: máquina d'escribir (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: maşınka, yazı makinası
- Bashkir: яҙыу машинкаһы (yaźıw maşinkahı)
- Basque: idazmakina (eu)
- Belarusian: пі́шучая машы́нка f (píšučaja mašýnka)
- Bengali: টাইপরাইটার (bn) (ṭaiporaiṭar)
- Bulgarian: пи́шеща маши́на f (píšešta mašína)
- Burmese: လက်နှိပ်စက် (my) (lakhnipcak)
- Catalan: màquina d'escriure f
- Chinese:
- Czech: psací stroj (cs) m
- Danish: skrivemaskine (da) c
- Dutch: schrijfmachine (nl) f, typmachine (nl) f, typemachine (nl) f
- Esperanto: tajpilo (eo), skribmaŝino (eo)
- Estonian: kirjutusmasin (et)
- Finnish: kirjoituskone (fi)
- French: machine à écrire (fr) f
- Galician: máquina de escribir (gl) f
- Georgian: საწერი მანქანა (sac̣eri mankana)
- German: Schreibmaschine (de) f
- Greek: γραφομηχανή (el) f (grafomichaní)
- Hebrew: מְכוֹנַת כְּתִיבָה (he) f (mekhonát ktivá)
- Hindi: टाइपराइटर (hi) m (ṭāiprāiṭar)
- Hungarian: írógép (hu)
- Hunsrik: Schreibmaschin f
- Icelandic: ritvél (is) f
- Indonesian: mesin tulis (id), mesin tik (id)
- Interlingua: dactylographo, machina de scriber
- Irish: clóscríobhán m
- Italian: macchina da scrivere f
- Japanese: タイプライター (ja) (taipuraitā), 印字機 (いんじき, injiki)
- Javanese: mesin tik
- Kazakh: жазатын машина (jazatyn maşina)
- Khmer: អង្គុលីលេខ (ʼɑngkuliileek)
- Korean: 타자기(打字機) (ko) (tajagi), 타이프라이터 (taipeuraiteo), 인자기(印字機) (injagi)
- Kyrgyz: жазуучу машинка (jazuucu maşinka)
- Lao: ເຄື່ອງພິມດີດ (khư̄ang phim dīt)
- Latvian: rakstāmmašīna f
- Lithuanian: rašomoji mašinėlė f
- Luxembourgish: Schreifmaschinn f
- Macedonian: машина за пишување f (mašina za pišuvanje)
- Malagasy: milina fanoratana
- Malay: mesin taip
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бичгийн машин (bičgiin mašin)
- Navajo: béésh bee akʼeʼelchíhí
- Norman: machinne à êcrithe f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: skrivemaskin (no) m
- Nynorsk: skrivemaskin m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: ماشینِ تَحْریر (mâšin-e tahrir)
- Plautdietsch: Schriewmaschien f
- Polish: maszyna do pisania (pl) f
- Portuguese: máquina de escrever (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਟਾਈਪਰਾਈਟਰ (ṭāīparāīṭar)
- Romanian: mașină de scris (ro) f
- Russian: пи́шущая маши́нка (ru) f (píšuščaja mašínka), печа́тная маши́нка f (pečátnaja mašínka)
- Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhadair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: писаћа машина f, писаћи строј m
- Roman: pisaća mašina f, pisaći stroj m
- Sinhalese: යතුරු ලියනය (yaturu liyanaya)
- Slovak: písací stroj m
- Slovene: pisalni stroj (sl) m
- Spanish: máquina de escribir (es) f
- Sundanese: mesin tik
- Swahili: taipureta (sw)
- Swedish: skrivmaskin (sv) c
- Tagalog: makinilya, limbitan
- Tajik: мошинкаи чоп (mošinka-yi čop)
- Tamil: தட்டச்சுக் கருவி (taṭṭaccuk karuvi)
- Tatar: язу машинкасы (yazu maşinkası)
- Thai: เครื่องพิมพ์ดีด (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-pim-dìit)
- Turkish: daktilo (tr), daktilo makinesi (tr), yazı makinesi (tr)
- Turkmen: ýazuw maşynkasy
- Ukrainian: друка́рська маши́нка f (drukársʹka mašýnka)
- Urdu: ٹائِپ رائِٹَر m (ṭāip rāiṭar)
- Uyghur: خەت بېسىش ماشىنىسى (xet bësish mashinisi), ماشىنكا (mashinka)
- Uzbek: yozuv mashinkasi, mashinka (uz)
- Vietnamese: máy chữ (vi) (𣛠𡦂), máy đánh chữ (𣛠打𡦂)
- Volapük: penamacin (vo)
- Welsh: teipiadur (cy) m
- White Hmong: lub tshuab ntaus ntawv
- Yiddish: שרײַבמאַשין f (shraybmashin)
one who uses a typewriter
- Chinese:
- Danish: maskinskriver c
- Finnish: konekirjoittaja (fi)
- French: dactylo (fr) m or f
- Greek: δακτυλογράφος (el) m or f (daktylográfos)
- Hungarian: gépíró (hu), gépírónő (hu)
- Icelandic: ritari m, vélritari m
- Japanese: タイピスト (ja) (taipisuto)
- Polish: maszynistka (pl) f
- Romanian: dactilograf (ro) m, dactilografă (ro) f
- Russian: машини́стка (ru) f (mašinístka)
- Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhadair m, clò-sgrìobhaiche m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: skrivmaskinist, maskinskrivare
- Volapük: (♂♀) klavan, (♂) hiklavan, (♀) jiklavan