different between typewriter vs underwood

English

Etymology

From type +? writer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?ta?p??a?t?(?)]

Noun

typewriter (plural typewriters)

1. A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
2. (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
3. (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
4. A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.

Synonyms

• typographer
• (one who uses a typewriter): typist

Derived terms

Related terms

• type
• typewrite
• typist
• write

Translations

See also

• touch-typist

English

Etymology

From under- +? wood.

Noun

underwood (countable and uncountable, plural underwoods)

1. Underbrush, undergrowth.
   • 1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17,^[1]

     What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is to the Trees I have already hinted; and yet in Copses where they stand warm, and so thickn’d with the under wood, as this culture cannot be practis’d, they prove in time to be goodly Trees.

   • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 30,^[2]

     […] the Country near the Sea-side, and some few Miles further is full of short Under-wood, and thorny Shrubs, which tore our Cloaths to Rags […]

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     ‘Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.’