TYPEWRITE (typewritten, typewrote)

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Irregular inflected forms: typewritten    , typewrote   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does typewrite mean? 

• TYPEWRITE (verb)
  The verb TYPEWRITE has 1 sense:

1. write by means of a keyboard with types

  Familiarity information: TYPEWRITE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPEWRITE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Write by means of a keyboard with types

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

type; typewrite

Context example:

type the acceptance letter, please

Hypernyms (to "typewrite" is one way to...):

write (communicate or express by writing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "typewrite"):

shift (use a shift key on a keyboard)

backspace (hit the backspace key on a computer or typewriter keyboard)

double-space (type with a full space between lines)

triple-space (type with two empty spaces between lines)

touch-type (type without looking at the keyboard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

typewriter (hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time)

typewriting (writing done with a typewriter)

 Context examples 

“I think that this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an appointment with me for six o’clock?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had three copies typewritten, one of which I enclose.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is long, but I have typewritten it out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He read them over and over, and liked them so much that he could not puzzle out the cause of their rejection, until, one day, he read in a newspaper that manuscripts should always be typewritten.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Not only that, but the signature is typewritten.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By this time my little joke was over, and I was almost ashamed; so I took the typewritten copy from my workbasket and handed it to him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two days later he received a bulky envelope, which contained a short note from the detective, and a typewritten document, which covered several pages of foolscap.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I expected, his reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but characteristic defects.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They are all typewritten.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)