to depress a typewriter key

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• depress — transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French depresser, from Latin depressus, past participle of deprimere to press down, from de + premere to press more at press Date: 14th century 1. obsolete repress, subjugate 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• shift key — noun the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower case letters to upper case letters • Syn: ↑shift • Hypernyms: ↑key • Part Holonyms: ↑typewriter keyboard * * * noun : a typewriter key used for shifting * * * …   Useful english dictionary

• shift key — 1. a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols. 2. Computers. a key that performs the same functions as on a typewriter keyboard and also controls other… …   Universalium

• IBM Selectric typewriter — The IBM Selectric typewriter (occasionally known as the IBM Golfball typewriter) is an influential electric typewriter design. It was introduced in 1961.Instead of a basket of pivoting typebars the Selectric had a pivoting type element… …   Wikipedia

• shift — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sciftan to divide, arrange; akin to Old Norse skipa to arrange, assign Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to exchange for or replace by another ; change 2. a. to change the place, position,… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Chorded keyboard — A Microwriter MW4 (circa 1980) A keyset or chorded keyboard (also called a chorded keyset, chord keyboard or chording keyboard) is a computer input device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys… …   Wikipedia

• Fountain pen — A fountain pen is a nib pen that, unlike its predecessor the dip pen, contains an internal reservoir of water based liquid ink. From the reservoir, the ink is drawn through a feed to the nib and then to the paper via a combination of gravity and… …   Wikipedia

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium