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Keyboarding vs Typewriter - What's the difference?

keyboarding | typewriter |

As nouns the difference between keyboarding and typewriter

is that keyboarding is the act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device while typewriter is 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.

keyboarding

English

Noun

(s)
  • The act of typing at a keyboard (with or without a mouse or other pointing device)
  • * 1977 , Computerworld (volume 11, number 24, 13 June 1977, page 91)
  • The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction;

    typewriter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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?"'' -- ''The Southpaw , Mike Harris, 1953.

    Synonyms

    * (one who uses a typewriter) typist

    Derived terms

    * typewritery

    See also

    * touch-typist