Typewriter
noun
A machine for writing with keys that work by pressing a button.
In the old days, people used to type letters by hand on a typewriter.
Often appears as...
- manual typewriter
- electric typewriter
noun
A person who types for a living, especially before computers were common.
She worked as a typewriter for a law firm before she got promoted.
Often appears as...
- professional typewriter
- skilled typewriter
noun
A machine for writing with keys that work by pressing a button.
In the old days, people used to type letters by hand on a typewriter.
Often appears as...
- manual typewriter
- electric typewriter
noun
A person who types for a living, especially before computers were common.
She worked as a typewriter for a law firm before she got promoted.
Often appears as...
- professional typewriter
- skilled typewriter
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historic Device
Understand that 'typewriter' refers to an outdated technology, once essential for writing documents.
Museums sometimes have a typewriter on display.
Pro Tip 2/3No Backspace Key
'Typewriter' implies that mistakes were harder to correct than in digital text, emphasizing careful typing.
Using a typewriter taught me to type without errors.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
The word 'typewriter' may evoke the specific, rhythmic noise made when typing, a sound that's nostalgic to some.
The clacking of the typewriter keys was soothing to him.
Pro Tip 1/3Historic Device
Understand that 'typewriter' refers to an outdated technology, once essential for writing documents.
Museums sometimes have a typewriter on display.
Pro Tip 2/3No Backspace Key
'Typewriter' implies that mistakes were harder to correct than in digital text, emphasizing careful typing.
Using a typewriter taught me to type without errors.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
The word 'typewriter' may evoke the specific, rhythmic noise made when typing, a sound that's nostalgic to some.
The clacking of the typewriter keys was soothing to him.
Pro Tip 1/3Historic Device
Understand that 'typewriter' refers to an outdated technology, once essential for writing documents.
Museums sometimes have a typewriter on display.
Pro Tip 2/3No Backspace Key
'Typewriter' implies that mistakes were harder to correct than in digital text, emphasizing careful typing.
Using a typewriter taught me to type without errors.
Pro Tip 3/3Distinctive Sound
The word 'typewriter' may evoke the specific, rhythmic noise made when typing, a sound that's nostalgic to some.
The clacking of the typewriter keys was soothing to him.
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Safari Live - Day 15 PIPE...
there for too long they'll probably move off but I love watching that it sort of reminds me of I don't know why you know old-fashioned the typewriter and as you type and I don't I see I don't even know what the correct words are but you know the thing with the ink may be you said you can help me how it's sort of
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Aparna Rao: High-tech...
It's exactly the way my uncle uses a phone that's designed for one person. But the problem is that, when I left home and went to college, I started missing his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email.
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Finding life we can't...
where they are perfectly happy replicating and growing in complexity. So this is the distribution that you get if, in fact, there is no life. They have about 28 of these instructions. And if you have a system where they're being replaced one by the other, it's like the monkeys writing on a typewriter.
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Finding life we can't...
there is no life they have about twenty eight of these instructions and if you have a system where they're being replaced one by the other it's like the monkeys riding on a typewriter each of these instructions appears was roughly the equal frequency but if you now take us take a set of
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A 40-year plan for...
last year BMW announced this carbon-fiber electric car they said that its carbon fiber is paid for by needing fewer batteries and they said we do not intend to be a typewriter maker out he claimed it's going to beat them both by year seven years ago and even faster and
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These Men Love...
we have over a hundred categories of items now that there are museums for like soap coat hangers typewriters staplers shopping trolley like all collecting you go to the dealers you've got the people who collect from monetary advancement but there are quite a few of
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Punishing a Child-Killer...
reopen the case when the other asks for the prosecutors promise in writing he says no his secretary has gone home I said you know I have a right to your promise they had a typewriter in his office and I said please tell me what I have to
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The evolution of the...
granite does not care either the implements of writing have never cared about meaning pens and typewriters are not sentient think Thomas Jefferson's geese had no idea what their plumage was was writing technology influences form
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Neil on the Power of the...
push a button and the letter comes and then here it is take words so it's not the typewriters hadn't ever been around but there was some point in your life where you would write a letter to someone by hand and that just doesn't
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Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
And they said, "We do not intend to be a typewriter maker." Audi claimed it's going to beat them both by a year. Seven years ago, an even faster and cheaper American manufacturing technology
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 15 PIPE...
there for too long they'll probably move off but I love watching that it sort of reminds me of I don't know why you know old-fashioned the typewriter and as you type and I don't I see I don't even know what the correct words are but you know the thing with the ink may be you said you can help me how it's sort of
Video examples
Aparna Rao: High-tech...
It's exactly the way my uncle uses a phone that's designed for one person. But the problem is that, when I left home and went to college, I started missing his commands. And so I made him a golden typewriter through which he could dispense his commands to nephews and nieces around the world as an email.
Video examples
Finding life we can't...
where they are perfectly happy replicating and growing in complexity. So this is the distribution that you get if, in fact, there is no life. They have about 28 of these instructions. And if you have a system where they're being replaced one by the other, it's like the monkeys writing on a typewriter.
Video examples
Finding life we can't...
there is no life they have about twenty eight of these instructions and if you have a system where they're being replaced one by the other it's like the monkeys riding on a typewriter each of these instructions appears was roughly the equal frequency but if you now take us take a set of
Video examples
A 40-year plan for...
last year BMW announced this carbon-fiber electric car they said that its carbon fiber is paid for by needing fewer batteries and they said we do not intend to be a typewriter maker out he claimed it's going to beat them both by year seven years ago and even faster and
Video examples
These Men Love...
we have over a hundred categories of items now that there are museums for like soap coat hangers typewriters staplers shopping trolley like all collecting you go to the dealers you've got the people who collect from monetary advancement but there are quite a few of
Video examples
Punishing a Child-Killer...
reopen the case when the other asks for the prosecutors promise in writing he says no his secretary has gone home I said you know I have a right to your promise they had a typewriter in his office and I said please tell me what I have to
Video examples
The evolution of the...
granite does not care either the implements of writing have never cared about meaning pens and typewriters are not sentient think Thomas Jefferson's geese had no idea what their plumage was was writing technology influences form
Video examples
Neil on the Power of the...
push a button and the letter comes and then here it is take words so it's not the typewriters hadn't ever been around but there was some point in your life where you would write a letter to someone by hand and that just doesn't
Video examples
Amory Lovins: A 40-year...
And they said, "We do not intend to be a typewriter maker." Audi claimed it's going to beat them both by a year. Seven years ago, an even faster and cheaper American manufacturing technology
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Eve Babitz
American Artist
I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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W. S. Merwin
American Poet
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
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Anne Rivers Siddons
American Novelist
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
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John Sayles
American Director
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.
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Jo Nesbo
Norwegian Author
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
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Ray Bradbury
American Writer
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
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Joan Didion
American Author
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
Quote examples
Eve Babitz
American Artist
I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.
Quote examples
J. K. Rowling
English Author
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Quote examples
W. S. Merwin
American Poet
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
Quote examples
Anne Rivers Siddons
American Novelist
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.
Quote examples
John Sayles
American Director
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.
Quote examples
Jo Nesbo
Norwegian Author
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Quote examples
Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
Quote examples
Ray Bradbury
American Writer
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Quote examples
Joan Didion
American Author
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
Quote examples
Howard Rheingold
American Critic
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
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