(n.) An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.
(n.) One who uses such an instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
(2) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
(3) Apart from the novels, plays, film scripts, sitcoms and magazine articles that flowed unceasingly from his vintage Adler typewriter (he hated new technology), he also wrote a twice-weekly newspaper column, beginning in the Daily Mirror in 1970, and from 1988 for the Daily Mail, until the paper announced his retirement last May.
(4) He is not allowed a typewriter or computer, and spends most of his day reading memoirs of those who wrote while incarcerated.
(5) The church panels that inspired the petitions’ design can be seen in a dimmed room at nearby Yirrkala art centre, where it’s rumoured you can also see the typewriter that clacked out the petition in English and Yolngu – another seminal achievement.
(6) Christian Flisek, the SPD's representative on the committee, told Spiegel Online: "This call for mechanical typewriters is making our work sound ridiculous.
(7) The system depends on the preparation of reports on an electric typewriter producing punched paper tape as a byproduct.
(8) By means of this simple system there is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medical staff has been reduced.
(9) A few weeks went by before the unthinkable happened: I received a fax from New York with a letter from Salinger himself – densely typed on a manual typewriter with, at the top, the date and the word "Cornish", the town in New Hampshire where he lived his reclusive life.
(10) But judging by the reaction to Sensburg's comments, manual typewriters are unlikely to be widely adopted in German political circles.
(11) This investigation explored the interaction of progressive-part versus whole methods of practice with hemispheric preference for processing information and the impact of each upon high school students' speed and accuracy in beginning typewriting.
(12) He was said to have written his first story, entitled Jim's Adventure, aged eight, the framed first page of which, picked out with two fingers on his father's typewriter, had pride of place in his study.
(13) For example, full pronation may be required for feeding, but only half the range is necessary to operate the keyboard of a computer or typewriter.
(14) We describe four cases of sudden death in adolescents associated with recreational sniffing of typewriter correction fluid occurring during the period 1979 through mid-1984.
(15) I didn't like to write about my own writing, but I was interested in how my children - I have many children, eight children - how they saw their father with his typewriter, an old-fashioned typewriter.
(16) Asked "Are you considering typewriters" by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either".
(17) Blind people may use reading machines with speech output to become relatively independent in text reading and text preparation using typewriters.
(18) She joined Chatto & Windus when publishers used carbon paper and typewriters and stopped for tea daily.
(19) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
(20) take into consideration the utilisation of the Olivetti calculator system including the following hardware: P 652 basic unit microcomputer; paper tape reader LN 20; Editor 4 ST typewriter, for RIA evaluation.
Underwood
Definition:
(n.) Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(2) In another, Underwood and his aide are monitoring police communications from his office – and laid out on their desk are no fewer than nine iPhones and iPads.
(3) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(4) Cowell's contract will expire after the ninth run of the top-rating American Idol, which has made household names of contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, with an American version of X Factor due to air in time for the 2011 season.
(5) Email from Jack Underwood: It seems like Luck audibles on every single down.
(6) In spite of considerable reasearch over many years in the field of automatic speech recognition (Underwood, 1977), practical devices capable of recognising unrestricted speech remain as science fiction rather than fact.
(7) "Aso's refusal to acknowledge his family's use of slave labour proves just how out of step Japan is with the global trend towards recognising historical wrongs and making reparations," William Underwood, an expert on forced labour in wartime Japan, told the Guardian.
(8) Through what Underwood refers to as the "outsourcing of death", and through this lack of exposure to it, we have become ill-equipped to deal with it – and in denial of the one thing that affects us all.
(9) After centrifugation the clear supernatant was used directly in the IGF-I RIA (Van Wyk and Underwood antibody) and in a human placental membrane RRA for IGF-II.
(10) In the UK, the fictional Underwood gave his views on the EU referendum in the Times in a piece that appeared to be written by Dobbs, who is campaigning for Brexit.
(11) ;) February 14, 2014 ( This is probably what Underwood is referring to in the tweet above.
(12) Miller is accused of killing Dr William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were at the community centre in Leawood for a singing contest audition.
(13) His approval ratings are even lower than his morals, and the satirist Stephen Colbert (playing himself) is ridiculing Underwood’s “America Works” plan to increase jobs but reduce welfare benefits.
(14) Frank Underwood, he’s a sort of latter-day Iago isn’t he?
(15) We understand you’re a fan of both Danish noir and House of Cards – so who’s the most effective national leader: Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen or Frank Underwood?
(16) With nine Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe – for Robin Wright 's portrayal of Underwood's equally devious wife, Claire – the show has already been commissioned for a third series.
(17) Pregnant Franny, whose child can assert the human race's survival; the forgiving and ailing Glen; deaf-mute Nick; mentally challenged Tom Cullen, who will save Stu Redman; Larry Underwood, who starts the novel dreaming of Flagg, and is filled with darkness, but somehow finds the light.
(18) It really caught fire.” The marketing also includes a fake campaign website – where Underwood’s un-nerving gaze is turned towards the viewer when a keyboard cursor runs over his eyes – plus a spoof presidential pardon from the politician on Twitter for those planning to take the day off work to watch the show.
(19) The BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs’s book only ran for one series but Davies – who came up with many of the devices used in the TV show, such as Underwood’s glances and speeches to camera – said he had expected that Netflix’s Golden Globe-winning version would last longer if it became a hit.
(20) "If this had happened in any country except Japan there would be a domestic consciousness of the problem," Underwood said.