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keyboard
[kee-bawrd]
noun
the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
I was playing piano before my feet could reach the pedals or my fingers could cover a chord on the keyboard.
a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, computer, cash register, or the like, or a digital representation of the same on a touchscreen used to type on a device such as a smartphone or tablet.
I spilled coffee on my keyboard, and now the return key sticks so my documents are full of extra line breaks.
any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.
You basically need four people to start a rock band—someone on lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and keyboard.
verb (used with or without object)
Also key in to enter (data) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
If you can get changes keyboarded by Monday, we should still be able to make the project deadline.
to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.
keyboard
/ ˈ쾱ːˌɔː /
noun
a complete set of keys, usually hand-operated, as on a piano, organ, typewriter, or typesetting machine
( as modifier )
a keyboard instrument
(often plural) a musical instrument, esp an electronic one, played by means of a keyboard
verb
to set (a text, etc) in type, onto magnetic tape, or into some other medium, by using a keyboard machine
Other 51Թ Forms
- keyboarder noun
- keyboardist noun
- rekeyboard verb
- ˈˌDz noun
Example Sentences
This has all led to concerns, in some quarters, that cars could be hacked and used to harbour spyware, monitor individuals or even be immobilised at the touch of a keyboard.
Stone played keyboards, guitar, bass and drums and wrote, arranged and produced all of the group’s music.
Research, for example, has found that students’ brains were more active when they handwrote information rather than typing it on a keyboard and when using a pen and paper versus a stylus and a tablet.
He studied music composition and briefly played keyboard — three days in 1976 — with the Pointer Sisters.
"The keyboard is now a weapon of war and we are responding to that," he said.
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