noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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The electric typewriter was covered by its hood and would remain covered while he was still there.
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Downstairs, Yoyo found her father setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table.
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Lying waiting on a desk was a portable electric typewriter and a stack of copy paper.
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Electronic text-processors are called word-processors, and are joint products of the computer and the electric typewriter .
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So: you type it out on an electric typewriter on A4 or A5 size paper.
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Thus you can run thirty electric typewriters off one 13 amp socket but only three 800 watt lamps.
electronic
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A single strand of technological evolution connects electronic sewing machines, electronic typewriters , and flexible electronic workstations.
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The character generator operates like an electronic typewriter , printing titles on the screen.
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He told the assistant that he was considering buying an electronic typewriter .
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At his farewell, the Company presented with an electronic typewriter , fitted with all the latest software.
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Word processors electronic typewriters and printers tend to favour certain layouts over others.
manual
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A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard.
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After all, the idea that quantity means quality is as outdated as a manual typewriter .
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He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter .
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The workers there were still using manual typewriters .
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The author works on a real actual finger-driven, manual typewriter .
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Somewhere in the whitewashed recesses of the building a secretary tapped in indecisive spurts on a manual typewriter .
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The one-dimensional man, whose life collapsed upon retirement, was as anachronistic as the manual typewriter .
old
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An old Adler typewriter crashed against the wall only inches from Cally's head.
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There was an old typewriter in the rumpus room.
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No doubt she had felt safe: probably she still had his old typewriter , not greatly used since the separation.
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He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window.
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He was in his office, battering the keyboard of his computer as if it were an old manual typewriter .
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So we apologise for the standard of typing ... Penny's grandpa's old typewriter is a real character!!!
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See, with bits of paper, pictures from magazines, glue, an old typewriter , this brain, and colours.
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The word processor proved to be, and still is, a joy after my own old typewriter at home.
portable
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He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
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Joe sat down at his portable typewriter and pecked out the words as Wallace and Vincent collaborated in dictating the message.
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You may find you are expected to use a portable typewriter .
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My baby-blue Smith-Corona portable typewriter .
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I also carried a small portable typewriter , only slightly younger than I was.
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My baby-blue portable Smith-Corona typewriter has been a gift from my parents a year before, in anticipation of my attending college.
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Lying waiting on a desk was a portable electric typewriter and a stack of copy paper.
■ NOUN
key
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He defaced the typewriter keys with a file and made a special trip to Hertfordshire to drop it in a reservoir.
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He brought his hands up to the typewriter keys and forced himself to begin.
■ VERB
sit
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He sat in front of the white typewriter , listening to the ticking of the clock in the corner by the window.
use
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Still, doing these rather than the outstanding equipment performance reports means that he doesn't have to use of the typewriter .
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By her third semester Tammy had begun using a typewriter , or one of the City College computers.
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You may find you are expected to use a portable typewriter .
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The workers there were still using manual typewriters .
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When computers first appeared in offices in the late 1970s, they were used as glorified typewriters by secretaries.
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Belated adopters kept using their typewriters .
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Word-processors, because of their general similarity with the typewriter , are exceptionally easy to use - as a typewriter!
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It also provides you the same opportunity if revisions are necessary. Use a new typewriter ribbon for your final draft.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After he drifted off I got up from my typewriter , knelt beside the couch and stared at his face.
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Any room into which Harvey put his typewriter he called his office.
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Both his hands disappear in the back of my typewriter .
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I took my bicycle on the train, with two packs slung on the back and a typewriter .
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It should, however, be enough to say that the Enigma machine looked like a large, clumsy, old-fashioned typewriter .
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It was all hands to the pumps, or the typewriters or the files or the photocopier, as appropriate.
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Pencils, pens, a typewriter .
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They can also buy equipment such as a typewriter or calculator.