Typewriter vs Typewrites - What's the difference?
typewriter | typewrites |
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.
(typewrite)
(transitive, or, intransitive) To type using a typewriter.
*1925, William Frederick Book, Learning to Typewrite: With a Discussion of the Psychology and Pedagogy of Skill , The Gregg pub. co.,
*:These facts are set forth for learning to typewrite in Part II of this book.
*1935, New Jersey Secondary School Teachers' Association, Lord Dufferin School. Old Boys Association, Yearbook , page 215,
*:IF THE businessman discovers that his new office worker cannot spell, typewrite , compute percentage or punctuate properly, he is immediately confronted with a series of in-training problems.
*1944, Robert Luther Duffus, The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorsein Veblen and Some Others , The Macmillan company, page 71,
*:I began to typewrite copy letters for him, and I have never been long free from the typewriter since.
*1994, Kas Mazurek and Margret A. Winzer, Comparative Studies in Special Education , Gallaudet University Press, page 193,
*:Third, a major barrier for blind and physically handicapped children is removed by permitting them to typewrite their answers during public examinations.
As a noun 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.As a verb typewrites is
(typewrite).typewriter
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.