keyboard
Americannoun
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.
noun
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a complete set of keys, usually hand-operated, as on a piano, organ, typewriter, or typesetting machine
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( as modifier )
a keyboard instrument
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(often plural) a musical instrument, esp an electronic one, played by means of a keyboard
verb
Other Word Forms
- keyboarder noun
- keyboardist noun
- rekeyboard verb
Etymology
Origin of keyboard
Example Sentences
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Leah: I actually just... for the first time since I learned to play the piano, I've just got a keyboard at home.
From BBC
When he formed the band Wings, she played keyboards, sang and co-wrote songs for several years.
“I’m not here because I’m the greatest keyboard player,” she explains in “Man on the Run.”
From Salon
In these streaming, serial times, a critic may have to watch as many as 10 hours of a show before putting fingers to keyboard, pen to paper, pointed stick to clay tablet.
From Los Angeles Times
Clifton Broumand, owner of a Maryland-based business that assembles waterproof keyboards and computer mouses for the healthcare industry, is looking to shift his purchases of silicone parts from China to Mexico to avoid tariffs.
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