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English

{|style="float:right;margin: .5em 0 .5em 1em;" |Image:Swedish keyboard 20050614.jpg|thumb|A computer keyboard |Image:Player piano keyboard.jpg|thumb|100px|A piano keyboard |} Image:YamahaKeyboard.jpg|thumb|An electronic keyboard instrument

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kiˈbɔrd/,
  • IPA: /ˈkiːbɔːd/,


Etymology

key + board

Noun

  1. A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
  2. 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. 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.


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Translations

  • Italian: {{t-|it|tastiera|f}}
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|キーボード|tr=kībōdo|sc=Jpan}}
  • Latvian: tastatūra
  • Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|klaviatūra|f|xs=Lithuanian}}
  • Norwegian: {{t-|no|Tastatur|n}}
  • Persian: (safhe-kelid)
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|klawiatura|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|teclado|m}}
  • Romanian: tastatură , claviatură
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|клавиатура|f|tr=klaviatúra|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: тастатура#Serbian|тастатура
  • : Roman: tastatura#Serbian|tastatura
  • Slovak: klávesnica
  • Slovene: {{t-|sl|tipkovnica|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|teclado|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|tangentbord|n}}
  • Icelandic: hljómborð
  • Italian:
  • Japanese: {{t-|ja|キーボード|tr=kībōdo|sc=Jpan}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|клавиатура|f|tr=klaviatúra|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Slovene: klaviatura
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|teclado|m}}
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|keyboard|n}}

Verb

  1. To type on a computer keyboard.
  2. : Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet keyboard
n 1: 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
Moby Dictionary
autotype , choir , claviature , console , echo , eighty-eight ,
electrotype , fingerboard , great , ivories , keys , linotype , manual ,
monotype , organ manual , palaeotype , pedals , piano keys , solo ,
stereotype , swell


FOLDOC keyboard

A hardware device consisting of a number of
mechanical buttons (keys) which the user presses to input
characters to a computer.

Keyboards were originally part of terminals which were
separate peripheral devices that performed both input and
output and communicated with the computer via a serial line.
Today a keyboard is more likely to be connected more directly
to the processor, allowing the processor to scan it and detect
which key or keys are currently pressed. Pressing a key sends
a low-level key code to the keyboard input driver routine
which translates this to one or more characters or special
actions.

Keyboards vary in the keys they have, most have keys to
generate the ASCII character set as well as various
function keys and special purpose keys, e.g. reset or volume
control.

(2003-07-04)


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