English
Etymology
type writer
An electric typewriter from the 1960s
Pronunciation
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Noun
typewriter (plural typewriters
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 ) typist .
1953 The Southpaw :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?"
( US , dated , slang ) machine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
Fredric Brown
"Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter , with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed —"
Synonyms
( one who uses a typewriter ) : typist
Derived terms
Translations
machine used to print text by pressing keys
Albanian: makinë shkrimi f
Arabic: آلَة كَاتِبَة f ( ʾāla kātiba ) , مِكْتَاب m ( miktāb )
Armenian: գրամեքենա (hy) ( gramekʻena )
Asturian: máquina d'escribir f
Azerbaijani: maşınka yazı makinası
Basque: idazmakina (eu)
Belarusian: пі́шучая машы́нка f ( píšučaja mašýnka )
Bengali: টাইপরাইটার ( ṭaiporaiṭar )
Bulgarian: пи́шеща маши́на f ( píšešta mašína )
Burmese: လက်နှိပ်စက် (my) ( lakhnipcak )
Catalan: màquina d'escriure f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打字機 ／ 打字机 (zh) ( dǎzìjī ) , 打字机 (zh) ( dǎzìjī )
Czech: psací stroj (cs) m
Danish: skrivemaskine (da) c
Dutch: schrijfmachine (nl) f
Esperanto: tajpilo skribmaŝino
Estonian: kirjutusmasin
Finnish: kirjoituskone (fi)
French: machine à écrire (fr) f
Galician: máquina de escribir f
Georgian: საწერი მანქანა ( sac̣eri mankana )
German: Schreibmaschine (de) f
Greek: γραφομηχανή (el) f ( grafomichaní )
Hebrew: מְכוֹנַת כְּתִיבָה (he) f ( mekhonát ktivá )
Hindi: टाइपराइटर (hi) ( ṭāiprāiṭar )
Hungarian: írógép (hu)
Hunsrik: Schreibmaschin f
Icelandic: ritvél (is) f
Indonesian: mesin tulis (id) , mesin tik (id)
Interlingua: dactylographo machina de scriber
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Irish: clóscríobhán m
Italian: macchina da scrivere f
Japanese: タイプライター (ja) ( taipuraitā ) , 印字機 ( いんじき, injiki )
Javanese: mesin tik
Kazakh: жазатын машина ( jazatyn maşina )
Khmer: អង្គុលីលេខ ( ʼɑngkuliileek )
Korean: 타자기 (ko) ( tajagi ) (打字機 (ko) ), 타이프라이터 ( taipeuraiteo )
Kyrgyz: жазуучу машинка ( jazuucu maşinka )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Lao: ເຄື່ອງພິມດີດ ( khư̄ang phim dīt )
Latvian: rakstāmmašīna f
Lithuanian: rašomoji mašinėlė f
Luxembourgish: Schreifmaschinn f
Macedonian: машина за пишување f ( mašina za pišuvanje )
Malagasy: milina fanoratana
Malay: mesin taip
Mongolian: бичгийн машин ( bičgiin mašin )
Navajo: béésh bee akʼeʼelchíhí
Norman: machinne à êcrithe f ( Jersey )
Norwegian: skrivemaskin (no) m
Persian: ماشین تحریر ( mâšin-e tahrir )
Polish: maszyna do pisania (pl) f
Portuguese: máquina de escrever (pt) f
Romanian: mașină de scris (ro) f
Russian: пи́шущая маши́нка (ru) f ( píšuščaja mašínka ) , печа́тная маши́нка f ( pečátnaja mašínka )
Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhadair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: писаћа машина f писаћи строј m
Roman: pisaća mašina f pisaći stroj m
Sinhalese: යතුරු ලියනය ( yaturu liyanaya )
Slovak: písací stroj m
Slovene: pisalni stroj (sl) m
Spanish: máquina de escribir (es) f
Sundanese: mesin tik
Swedish: skrivmaskin (sv) c
Tagalog: makinilya limbitan
Tajik: мошинкаи чоп ( mošinka-yi čop )
Thai: เครื่องพิมพ์ดีด ( krʉ̂ʉang-pim-dìit )
Turkish: daktilo (tr) , daktilo makinesi (tr) , yazı makinesi (tr)
Turkmen: ýazuw maşynkasy
Ukrainian: друка́рська маши́нка f ( drukársʹka mašýnka )
Urdu: ٹائپ رائٹر ( ṭā'ip rā'iṭar )
Uzbek: yozuv mashinkasi
Vietnamese: máy chữ (vi)
Volapük: penamacin (vo)
Welsh: teipiadur (cy) m
White Hmong: lub tshuab ntaus ntawv
Yiddish: שרײַבמאַשין f ( shraybmashin )
one who uses a typewriter
See also
