Word Finder - typewriter

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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.

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One who uses a typewriter; a typist.

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A machine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).

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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.

Her typewriter has no special attachments.

You see, I use a typewriter--it is my right hand man, so to speak.

Long corrections she wrote out on her typewriter, with catch-words to indicate where they belonged.

Although she has used the typewriter since she was eleven years old, she is rather careful than rapid.

It was thought advisable for me to have my examinations in a room by myself, because the noise of the typewriter might disturb the other girls.

She took a plain sheet of white paper from her desk and proceeded with flying fingers to type the 14 names and addresses using an old manual typewriter.

I use the Hammond typewriter.

If you choose this option, use your neatest handwriting, or try to find a typewriter.

This received perforated tape is then used to control what is known as the printer or automatic typewriter, a machine that translates the tape perforations into letters and prints the messages in Roman type in page form.

But Im going to buy a typewriter soon as I can.

Constant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly--about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter.

He spent many hours pretending to be a World War I flying ace, typing away at his typewriter, spending time with his bird friend Woodstock and sleeping on top of his dog house.

As he started to leave, he turned to the frail woman who was rolling a piece of paper into her typewriter.

Braille typewriter or laptop computer to take notes.

Yet without it the Center would have remained stuck in the era of pencil-and-paper, the card-index, and the typewriter.

He had been given a typewriter by Louisa Wallis, wife of the Hollywood producer Hal Wallis, who believed he had talent.

I could not make notes in class or write exercises; but I wrote all my compositions and translations at home on my typewriter.

The papers were difficult, and I felt very anxious as I wrote out my answers on the typewriter.

With this machine movable type shuttles can be used, and one can have several shuttles, each with a different set of characters--Greek, French, or mathematical, according to the kind of writing one wishes to do on the typewriter.

I shall be delighted to have a typewriter.

The only thing she does which requires skill with the hands is her work on the typewriter.

A word-processor is not a typewriter, so do n't use the space bar to align text.

He 's sitting there, unkempt, in front of an ancient typewriter into which two fingers punch a staccato rhythm.

Typewriters The Library has a portable electronic typewriter which may be borrowed for 48 hours.

Of course, simple typewriter ribbon imprints are nothing compared to the hidden information littered in application data files.

The generated LaTeX code formats Lisp programs in typewriter font obeying the spacing in the source file.

Windows 95 provides support for a standard Russian typewriter keyboard.

The keyboard has 62 small keys that are similar to a calculator rather than typewriter style.

It was designed to stop frequently used typewriter keys banging into each other.

They are old-fashioned, look like shouting and belong to the typewriter age when they were the only way to highlight text.

Rowling, born in 1965, began writing the series longhand in a coffee shop and typing it on a manual typewriter.

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Then, you fill it in using an ink pen or typewriter.

All those brightly colored envelopes and commemorative stamps may be going the way of the touch typewriter, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Cc or CC stands for Carbon Copy, a reference to the old-fashioned practice from the days of typewriters of inserting a piece of carbon paper among the blank sheets in the typewriter to create an instant copy.

Since vintage-inspired necklaces and bracelets are one of today's hottest fashion trends, style-savvy crafters will love Josie's designs for microscope slide necklaces, typewriter key bracelets, and domino pendants.

The look was anarchronistic - the hulking computer monitors being driven by a keyboard right from an old Remington manual typewriter, and offices being cooled by oscillating fans that were right out of the 1930s.

The operator actuates a typewriter form of perforator which punches varying groups of holes, representing the different characters, in a paper strip about one inch wide.

Per forating machines equipped with typewriter keyboards are used for the preparation of the messages, two or three keyboard perforators being employed at each end of the telegraph lines on which the Murray system is used.

This machine reproduces a copy of the original transmitting slip, which can be passed on to any other Wheatstone circuit or can be run through a " Creed printer," which is a pneumatic machine actuating a typewriter by means of valves.

We gazed at the sturdy typewriter whose simple mechanisms had produced plots of such intricacy and language of such clarity and humor.

Why do computers have typewriter keyboards and look like televisions?

Typewriters The Library has a portable electronic typewriters The Library has a portable electronic typewriter which may be borrowed for 48 hours.

Subjects range from a Sutton Hoo Helmet, to recollections of childhood, from a talking typewriter to Eugene Shoemaker.

I used an electric typewriter - at the time a fairly advanced means of production for an amateur working from home.

The first mechanical typewriter had been patented in 1714.

An electronic typewriter may be appropriate interim provision for a period.

Much of this material is typed using an old manual typewriter.

He explained each time what I did not understand in the previous lesson, assigned new work, and took home with him the Greek exercises which I had written during the week on my typewriter, corrected them fully, and returned them to me.

Besides, I could not see what I wrote on my typewriter.