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reˈtype, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a, 5 c.]
1. trans. To typify anew.
1839–48Bailey Festus xix. 215 The father of the faithful and the first Of men was each in Him retyped.
2. To recopy with a typewriter.
Now the usual sense.
1898H. G. Wells Let. 1 Jan. in G. Gissing & H. G. Wells (1961) 70 Parts I have reshaped, rewritten and retyped time after time. 1898Mitton Bachelor Girl vi, Once or twice she had to re-type a page. 1952S. Kauffmann Tightrope iv. 58 Rose retyped Russell's memo for him in the usual five copies. 1961‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xiii. 105 The letter had to be retyped. 1976H. MacInnes Agent in Place xiii. 136 Typed, retyped, torn up. The discarded pages filled the waste-basket. 1979Amer. N. & Q. Apr. 126/1 Faulkner entrusted the job to Phil Stone, who in turn gave the typescript to his secretary, Grace Hudson, to retype.
3. absol. To acquire a stock of new type.
1896Westm. Gaz. 12 Oct. 1/1 In re-typing we have made certain alterations which we hope will..be..improvements.
Hence reˈtyped ppl. a., reˈtyping vbl. n. Also ˈretype n., a retyped copy.
1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xiv. 183 She..threw it into the waste-paper basket together with the re-type which she had begun. 1943J. Reith Diary 4 May (1975) vi. 303 The vice-controller had my retyped memo today. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes iv. 74 The IBM Selectric Composer..allows automatic justification of the right-hand margin with a retyping. 1979Amer. N. & Q. Apr. 126/1 William Faulkner sent the newly revised and retyped text to Liveright. |