Keyboard
['kiːbɔːd] or ['ki'bɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung.
(noun.) device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like.
Checked by Dick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
Checked by Curtis
Examples
- The shifting of the type-wheels is brought about as follows: On the keyboard of the transmitter there are two characters known as dots--namely, the letter dot and the figure dot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A keyboard (not shown) is arranged above the cylinder, having keys lettered and numbered corresponding to the letters and figures on the type-wheels. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Her white teeth shining like a keyboard, she pushed back the sliding doors and ushered him into old Catherine's presence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A small electrical motor 1, run by a storage battery or electric light wires, turns a belt 3, and rotates pulley 4 and a long horizontal cylinder 5 running beneath the keyboard. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An ingenious musical instrument of the class having keyboards like the piano or organ has been recently invented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Adrian