Meanings
present singular third person typewrites · participle present typewriting · past typewrote · participle past typewritten
- intransitivetransitiveTo 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.
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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.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Back-formation from typewriter.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic طَبَعَ
- طَبَعَ (ṭabaʕa)verb
Bulgarian пиша на машина
- пиша на машина (piša na mašina)verb
Catalan mecanografiar
- mecanografiarverb
Chinese Cantonese 打字
- 打字 (daa² zi⁶)verb
Chinese Mandarin 打字
- 打字 (dǎzì)verb
Czech psát na stroji
- psát na strojiverb
Dutch typen, tikken
- typenverb
- tikkenverb
Esperanto tajpi
- tajpiverb
Finnish kirjoittaa koneella
- kirjoittaa koneellaverb
French taper à la machine, dactylographier
- taper à la machineverb
- dactylographierverb
- taperverb
German tippen, Maschine schreiben
- tippenverb
- Maschine schreibenverb
- mit der Schreibmaschine schreibenverb
Greek δακτυλογραφώ
- δακτυλογραφώ (daktylografó)verb
Hebrew הִקְלִיד
- הִקְלִיד (hiklid)verb
Hungarian gépel, legépel
- gépelverb
- legépelverb
Icelandic pikka
- pikkaverb
Irish clóscríobh
- clóscríobhverb
Italian dattilografare
- dattilografareverb
Japanese 打つ, 打鍵する
- 打つ (utsu)verb
- 打鍵する (daken suru)verb
- タイプする (taipu suru)verb
- タイプライターで打つ (taipuraitā de utsu)verb
Korean 타자하다, 타이프하다
- 타자하다 (tajahada)verb
- 타이프하다 (taipeuhada)verb
Malay tekan, taip
- tekanverb
- taipverb
- menaip (in Malaysia)verb
- ketikverb
- mengetikverb
Māori pato, patopato
- patoverb
- patopatoverb
Portuguese datilografar
- datilografarverb
Russian писа́ть на маши́нке, печа́тать
- писа́ть на маши́нке (pisátʹ na mašínke)verb
- печа́тать (pečátatʹ)verb
- напеча́тать (napečátatʹ)verb
Scottish Gaelic taidhp, clò-sgrìobh
- taidhpverb
- clò-sgrìobhverb
Spanish escribir a máquina, mecanografiar
- escribir a máquinaverb
- mecanografiarverb
- tipearverb
- dactilografiarverb
Swedish maskinskriva
- maskinskrivaverb
Turkish tuşlamak
- tuşlamakverb
Vietnamese đánh máy, đánh chữ
- đánh máyverb
- đánh chữverb
Welsh teipio
- teipioverb
Cite this entry
typewrite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typewrite
“typewrite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typewrite. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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