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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
keyboard
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer keyboard
▪ The computer keyboard is shaped to put less strain on your wrists.
a keyboard instrument
▪ Keyboard instruments are relatively easy to learn.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
▪ If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments, an electric keyboard can lie appropriate.
▪ A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard.
▪ He wrote the books in 1985 to help people with physical disabilities enjoy electric keyboard music.
electronic
▪ The idea of structureless meanderings on electronic keyboards, of musical tasks being in any way simplified, appals him.
▪ He is surrounded by an electronic keyboard, a rack of music equipment, a recording microphone and a personal computer.
▪ The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.
▪ It was an electronic piano keyboard, a rip-off of the Yamaha instrument that was a big Christmas seller in the States.
▪ Glass himself will be one of a trio of musicians playing the electronic keyboards during the performance.
▪ Eo made an Etch-a-Sketch-like personal communicator that replaced the electronic keyboard with a pen.
qwerty
▪ Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard.
▪ The QWERTY keyboard was, and still is, the principal input device.
▪ Natural Communication with Computers Communication with computers and computer controlled machinery is normally achieved using a QWERTY keyboard.
▪ The QWERTY keyboard has its origins in the days of early mechanical typewriters.
▪ The major problem with the QWERTY keyboard is that it needs to be learnt.
standard
▪ System control is via a standard computer keyboard.
▪ Besides a standard keyboard, the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
▪ How many keys are provided on the standard keyboard?
■ NOUN
computer
▪ Secondly, the computer keyboard has many additional keys which are used to alter the function of the alpha-numeric keys.
▪ System control is via a standard computer keyboard.
▪ More than a dozen Web sites have information about Dvorak, and many offer software for converting computer keyboards.
▪ After the clatter of the Linotypes, the tick-tick-tick of computer keyboards sounds eerie and aseptic.
▪ This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis.
▪ On a two-deck trolley to his right a V.D.U. stood above a computer keyboard.
▪ She attacked the computer keyboard with renewed vigour.
player
▪ Dennis the keyboard player in Relief comes over and talks incoherent rubbish to no-one in particular.
▪ She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular, for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned.
▪ Guitarist Parks was replaced by keyboard player Steve Gurl, while yet another new drummer was recruited-Andy Ebsworth.
▪ The keyboard player obviously cares more about advancing his or her career than the future of the band.
▪ The keyboards player spilt beer on his synthesizer.
▪ Let's not end up like the keyboard players who have to call in programmers.
▪ Kyle MacLachlan as keyboard player Ray Manzarek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dorfman plays keyboards -- an injury preventing him from shouldering his usual accordion.
▪ More than a dozen Web sites have information about Dvorak, and many offer software for converting computer keyboards.
▪ She focuses the music on her keyboards and her front-and-center vocals, which can be breathy and intimate or jagged.
▪ The keyboard is the input device.
▪ The ideal position for the mouse is on the same plane as the keyboard and as close to the keyboard as possible.
▪ The program can be used to record music input directly from the computer keyboard.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Keyboard

Keyboard \Key"board`\, n. The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys[3] of an organ, piano, typewriter, etc.; that part of a device containing the keys[3] used to operate it.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
keyboard

1819, from key (n.1) in sense of "mechanism of a musical instrument" + board (n.1). Originally of pianos, organs, etc., extended to other machines 1846. The verb is first recorded 1926 (implied in keyboarding).

Wiktionary
keyboard

n. 1 (label en computing etc.) A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc. 2 (label en music) A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck. 3 (label en music) A device with keys of a musical keyboard, used to control electronic sound-producing devices which may be built into or separate from the keyboard device. vb. (context intransitive English) To type on a computer keyboard.

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WordNet
keyboard

  1. n. device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like

  2. holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung

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Wikipedia
Keyboard

Keyboard may refer to:

Keyboard (magazine)

Keyboard magazine is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard-related instruments. The magazine has its headquarters in San Bruno, California.

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Usage examples of "keyboard".

RAT, or Remote Access Trojan, gives the attacker full access to your computer, just as if he were sitting at your keyboard.

Then, in the middle of pardoning some rich guys during his all-night Agonistes on January 19, he finally decided to do some good for all those women who sit at keyboards all day and who, with their crippled hands, went to the polls TWICE to make him their President.

Dodds clacking keyboard sounded more natural than the muffled burbling of the funnel or the squeals and creaks of the coaster.

She considered Eppie, running a revolt from a keyboard in a shabby apartment.

He punched at the keyboard, programming a few short grav-drive feints to keep them occupied.

She glanced at her keyboard, screen, and band guiltily as she climbed out of bed.

Fuller replied as he took the Hewlett Packard Jornada 720 palmtop computer and opened it to reveal its small touch screen and keyboard interface.

It was Japanese portable with a keyboard the length of a cricket bat, a complex mess of ASCII, kanji, katakana, hiragana and arcane function keys.

The red-bearded technician had left the room, and Kelty had crossed to a kind of typewriter keyboard set out from the wall.

Technicians manipulated data not by plugging away at traditional keyboards, but via keyless entry systems, the likes of which Harvath had never seen before.

His fingers floated across the keyless keyboard, the letters flashing silently with each stroke of his age-gnarled fingers.

I stumble forward over a desk covered in piles of kipple, wondering how in hell the owner is going to fail to notice my great muddy boot-print between the obviously confidential documents scattered next to a keyboard and a stone-cold coffee mug.

They even make us feel at moments as though in them had been realized the definitive pianistic style, that the hour of transition to the new keyboard of quarter tones was nigh.

He set his keyboard on the big oak table and began to issue orders in his quacking voice.

She had a bit of trouble getting her oddly shaped fingers to hit just the keys she wanted until Rafik made up a keyboard with spacings appropriate to her manual dexterity.