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keyboard
/ˈki.bɔɹd/
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What does keyboard mean?
noun
- A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer, etc.
- 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.
- An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.
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verb
- To type on a computer keyboard.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈki.bɔɹd/
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An interval in music is the distance on the keyboard from one piano to the next.
It seemed as tho almost every note on the keyboard of human possibility had been struck by the one school of fifty-four.
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Theron saw with surprise that she had uncovered the keyboard of a piano.
Thea felt that she had blurted this out in the worst possible way, and she turned back to the keyboard to hide her chagrin.
The operator at the keyboard would depress the letter A, whereupon the cylinder would in its revolution bring the first-named pin against the key.