typewriterlike love

Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a typewriter or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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typewriter +‎ -like

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Examples

  • U-boat captains used sophisticated little Enigma machines, each with a complex system of three rotors and a typewriterlike keyboard, to encode and decode messages.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • U-boat captains used sophisticated little Enigma machines, each with a complex system of three rotors and a typewriterlike keyboard, to encode and decode messages.

    The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945

  • Because the keyboards and other paraphernalia now available for keyboarding text into machine-readable form were not yet available, we used typewriterlike machines that produced a continuous punched paper tape, each key depression producing a discrete code.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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