keyboard
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.
Also key, 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.
Origin of keyboard
1Other words from keyboard
- key·board·er, key·board·ist, noun
- re·key·board, verb
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How to use keyboard in a sentence
Often it is easier and faster to type on a full size keyboard when responding to customer requests.
Google My Business adds messaging to desktop interface | Barry Schwartz | February 11, 2021 | Search Engine LandIt is WAnon, because W is even farther to the right than Q on your sacred canvas, the computer keyboard.
Gene Weingarten: I come bearing good news, QAnon. Meet WAnon, the new Mr. Right. | Gene Weingarten | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostSure, there will still be hands-on keyboards, but it will be less so.
‘Chronically understaffed’: Confessions of an agency exec on the cost of online advertising’s Covid growth | Seb Joseph | February 11, 2021 | DigidayThese days, the internet is a big help — you can learn a lot from the comfort of your keyboard.
Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question? (Ep. 451) | Stephen J. Dubner | February 11, 2021 | FreakonomicsIf a hurricane is about to create havoc in your community, don’t just fill sandbags, hit your keyboard and use open-source technologies to not only help your community, but to scale solutions to help others.
The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard.
The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike his three brothers, Art, the Nevilles' keyboard player, has his thing on the side—the Meters, the band he took to Europe.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou | John Ed Bradley | April 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTArt led the family starship on keyboard and did his own good share of singing.
The Cradle of Jazz, Blues and Gospel Endlessly Rocking | Jason Berry | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCarroll talks to me over the sound of an organ projecting from a Yamaha keyboard.
The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerDepression of these key-touches brought different combinations of stops into use on the keyboard above which they were placed.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerSome fine effects could be produced by this, but of course the whole keyboard was affected and only chords could be played.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerThese pistons were placed below the keyboard whose stops they affected.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerIt is now becoming more and more common to arrange for the transference of stops from one keyboard to another.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing Miller
British Dictionary definitions for keyboard
/ (ˈkiːˌbɔːd) /
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
to set (a text, etc) in type, onto magnetic tape, or into some other medium, by using a keyboard machine
Derived forms of keyboard
- keyboarder, noun
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