keyboard - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From key +‎ board.

• (US) enPR: kē'bôrd, IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔɹd/
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.bɔːd/

keyboard (plural keyboards)

2. (computing, etc.) A set of keys laid out in a grid-like pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer etc.
4. (music) 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.
6. (music) An electronic device containing a keyboard (preceding sense), especially one that is capable of producing musical sounds when the keys are played.

   Synonyms: electronic keyboard, synthesizer

(typing-related terms (sense 1)):

• key
• keypad
• keys

keyboard (third-person singular simple present keyboards, present participle keyboarding, simple past and past participle keyboarded)

1. (intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.

   Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.

   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 16:

     The earliest hardcore hackers would not stumble in to their predawn keyboarding for another two hours.

Borrowed from English keyboard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/
• Hyphenation: key‧board

keyboard n (plural keyboards or keyboarden, diminutive keyboardje n)

1. (music) keyboard (electrical keyboard instrument)
2. (computing) keyboard (input device for a computer)

• The plural keyboarden is rare, at least in writing.

• (computing): toetsenbord

• keyboardspeelster
• keyboardspeler

Unadapted borrowing from English keyboard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.bɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ibɔrt
• Syllabification: key‧board

keyboard m inan

1. keyboard (electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard)

   Synonym: klawiatura

(adjective):

(nouns):

• keyboard in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• keyboard in Polish dictionaries at PWN

keyboard c or n

1. (music) an electronic keyboard

   Hypernym: klaver (“keyboard instrument”)

• elorgel (“electric organ”)
• klaviatur (“keyboard (on a piano, organ, harpsichord, etc.)”)
• synthesizer (“synthesizer”)
• tangentbord (“keyboard (for typing)”)

• keyboard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• keyboard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)