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keyboard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun keyboard has 2 senses
- keyboard(n = noun.artifact) - device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like; has parts: action, action mechanism
- keyboard(n = noun.artifact) - holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung; is a kind of holder
is a part of computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system, organ, pipe organ, forte-piano, piano, pianoforte, terminal, typesetting machine, typewriter
has particulars: computer keyboard, keypad, clavier, fingerboard, piano keyboard, typewriter keyboard
is a kind of device
CIDE DICTIONARY
keyboard, 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
keyboard, n. & v.
--n. a set of keys on a typewriter, computer, piano, etc.
--v.tr. enter (data) by means of a keyboard.
--n. a set of keys on a typewriter, computer, piano, etc.
--v.tr. enter (data) by means of a keyboard.
Derivative
keyboarder n.
THESAURUS
keyboard
autotype, choir, claviature, console, echo, eighty-eight, electrotype, fingerboard, great, ivories, keys, linotype, manual, monotype, organ manual, palaeotype, pedals, piano keys, solo, stereotype, swell
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