Noun: word-processor
| Singular | word-processor |
| Plural | word-processors |
Sample Sentences
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It’s the faster, neater, cheaper features of these automatic word-processors along with “ability to change what is stored without redoing the whole job, that make these machines so valuable,” says [Allen F.] Rubin. [1973 January 16, Robert Wilson, “A machine instead of a secretary”, in The Montreal Star, 105th year, number 13, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page C-2, columns 4–5:]
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There are two activities at which I am quite proficient, and they are playing the piano, where both hands are used, and keyboarding what were initially typewriters but later word-processors and finally computers. [2021 April 1, Michael O’Neill, “Left-handed”, in Barry & District News, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Your letters…” section, page 16, column 5:]
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This idea is a new wrapper around a pack of more-or-less familiar products: the company’s longtime namesake and flagship design program CorelDraw (whose name isn’t changing), word-processor WordPerfect, emulator Parallels, visualizing tool MindManager, file compressor WinZip and an assortment of others. [2022 October 5, David Reevely, “New name, new boss, new pitch: Corel redux targets remote-work ease”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page FP3, column 1:]
Nouns inflected like word-processor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology