keyboardn.

Brit.

/ˈkiːbɔːd/, U.S.

/ˈkiˌbɔrd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: key n.¹, board n.

Etymology: < key n.¹ + board n.

a. A row or set of keys for producing the notes in an organ, piano, or similar instrument. Also: a set of bars on a xylophone or similar instrument. Also figurative.The modern standard keyboard layout, in which each octave consists of seven long keys interspersed with five shorter keys, has been in existence since at least the mid 15th cent. On a standard piano or organ the long keys are white and correspond to naturals, and the shorter keys are black and correspond to sharps or flats, although other arrangements are found on other, esp. older, instruments. Cf. also pedal keyboard n. at pedal n.¹ Compounds 2.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > keyboard of

clavier1708

keyboard1776

fingerboard1799

piano keyboard1863

claviature1883

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. iv. ix. 465 The citole, or cistole..might probably be an instrument resembling a box with strings on the top or belly, which by the application of the tastatura or key-board, borrowed from the organ, and jacks, became a spinnet.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organ Worked by..a treadle which comes out in the front of the instrument under the key board.

1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 126 A large organ generally possesses five key-boards one above the other.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 79 Uproar, that runs..up and down the long key-board of the beach.

1934 K. O'Brien Ante-room i. ix. 119 She rippled a fierce arpeggio up and down the keyboard, then swung round on the stool and faced her sister.

1952 Pop. Mech. Dec. 158/2 The keyboard [of the xylophone] includes two complete octaves.

1986 C. Gebler August in July (1987) 38 The pianist raising his hands and then crashing them down on the keyboard.

2004 N.Y. Times 11 Apr. ii. 34/3 From the opening outburst of vehement double octaves coursing down the keyboard, his playing is the more ferocious for its commanding control.

b. A (usually portable) electronic musical instrument played by means of a piano-style keyboard and (now typically) able to produce a variety of sounds; = electronic keyboard n. (b) at electronic adj. Compounds. Also (frequently in plural and without article): such instruments as a class; the music or sounds produced by these.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun]

clavier1845

keyboard instrument1850

keyboard1969

key1973

1969 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. 82/3 It [sc. the band Chicago] consists of Robert Lamm, keyboard and vocals, Peter Cetera, bass and vocals, [etc.].

1971 Ink 12 June 19/2 Toni Brown wrote most of the songs..and plays keyboards.

1985 Mail on Sunday 3 Mar. 22/4 (advt.) Here's your chance to win a Yamaha MK100 keyboard in our..competition.

1995 Orange Coast May 62/2 I played keyboards in the local rock band.

2007 Wired Aug. 76/3 The psych-pop tripsters' promising..first album splays reverb-drenched vocals over dense percussion, shuffling guitars, and soaring keyboards.

2. Originally: the set of keys on a typewriter, typesetting machine, switchboard, etc.; (later also) the panel of keys used to enter text or other data on a computer or similar electronic device.The standard layout on English-language typewriter or computer keyboards is known as the QWERTY keyboard: see QWERTY adj.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > other specific parts

armOE

button?1561

running gear1663

relax1676

collar1678

drumhead1698

long arm1717

drum1744

press cloth1745

head1785

absorber1789

bearing plate1794

crown1796

rhodings1805

press box1825

alternator1829

cushion1832

saw tooth1835

shoe1837

keyboard1839

returner1839

cross-head1844

channel shoe1845

baster1846

water port1864

shifter1869

magazine1873

entry port1874

upsetter1875

mechanism1876

tapper1876

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buttonholer1882

take-up1884

auger1886

instrument panel1897

balancer1904

torsion bar1937

powerhead1960

society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard

keyboard1958

concept keyboard1983

1839 Repertory Patent Inventions 12 9 Such number may be increased..by applying a third battery,..and two extra keys, f, g, to the key-board.

1846 H. Highton Brit. Patent 11,070 Each terminus of telegraphic communication..is provided with..one of the key boards in use in single magnetic needle electric telegraphs.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1187 A printing keyboard, by which the blind are enabled to write.

1882 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts V. 1608 The ‘Remington’ machine has in front a key-board holding the letters and numerals.

1919 H. Etheridge Dict. Typewriting 208 It is usual to provide duplicate keys on each side of the keyboard, so that the shift may be operated with either hand.

1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing iii. 57 A keyboard transcriber for preparing magnetic tapes offers the advantage of eliminating records intermediate to the source document and the tape.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 321 The programmer sits at an electric typewriter connected to the computer, and keys in his program with the keyboard.

1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 17/1 (advt.) The detachable keyboard comes complete with numeric keypad.

2011 G. Gruman et al. Exploring iPad 2 for Dummies 137/2 Select QWERTY, AZERTY, or QWERTZ to choose the keyboard layout for the iPad's onscreen keyboard.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and other compounds.

a. In sense 1, as keyboard music, keyboard playing, keyboard synthesizer, keyboard solo, etc.

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1868 Musical Standard 4 Jan. 1/2 Those who have rescued some of the long-buried gems from that part of the old music-mine in which is hidden so much keyboard music.

1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 4 July 3/2 Keyboard exercise unduly developed the flexor muscles.

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 159/2 The most important study in keyboard playing.

1897 W. S. B. Matthews Music xxvii. 182 I have felt obliged to direct my attention to two main points,—keyboard mastery, and the development of taste.

1938 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 10 Aug. 14/2 Keyboard Concert, demonstration of electronic keyboard organ.

1940 Listener 1 Feb. 43/2 It..seemed probable that Bach intended..an orchestral link after a slow movement of some sort, perhaps a keyboard solo.

1969 B. H. Bronson Ballad as Song xviii. 297 In the new keyboard music the folk-tunes were mainly a thematic springboard for elaborate technical virtuosity.

1986 Down Beat Sept. 17/1 He's got a Yamaha sequencer MIDI-ed up to a Casio CZ-101 keyboard synthesizer.

1990 J. F. Eiche Yamaha Guide to Sound Syst. for Worship ii. 10/2 You..do your level best to keep from tripping over keyboard stands and..hitting your shins on guitar amps.

2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Mar. c3 Keyboard riffs guaranteed to, if not quicken the dead, at least enliven the lugubrious.

b. In sense 2, as keyboard command, keyboard input, keyboard layout, keyboard letter, keyboard skills, etc.

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1892 Western Electrician 18 June 372/3 Key-Board Circuit for Multiple Switch-Boards.

1901 Phonogr. Mag. Sept. 173/2 It [sc. a typewriter] is operated by electricity.., and all that the person writing has to do is to touch ever so lightly the keyboard letters.

1905 Railroad Telegrapher Mar. (end matter) (advt.) Of course you use a Typewriter. Why not use The Transmitting Typewriter, And, in Sending as well as Receiving, Employ your Present Keyboard Skill?

1906 Inland Printer Dec. 457/1 The number of changes made every day, some of them involving change of keyboard layout.

1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 214 He hopes to build..a baby machine... This machine will contain..rudimentary computing circuits, and probably a manual (keyboard) input.

1974 New Scientist 7 Feb. (advt.) 330 The Sharp PC 1001 has a really straightforward keyboard operation.

1989 InfoWorld 9 Oct. (advt.) 47 The trackball does everything a mouse does... It allows you to control the computer without complex keyboard commands.

1999 T. Ivergard in W. Karwowski & W. S. Marras Occup. Ergonomics Handbk. viii. 135 The most common keyboard layout is the QWERTY layout.

2005 S. Brennan NHS IT Project xiii. 154 Touch screens in a clinical setting will be welcomed..if they reduce the need for keyboard input.

2012 Milton Keynes Citizen (Nexis) 25 May The scheme..provides free training sessions in computer and keyboard skills.

C2.

keyboard instrument n. a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun]

clavier1845

keyboard instrument1850

keyboard1969

key1973

1850 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) May 279 The universal agreement as to the imperfection of the scale as executed on key-board instruments and other instruments of a variety of fixed scales.

1911 Etude Nov. 778/2 I advise you to take an interest in music other than that of the keyboard instruments.

2002 T. Pinch & F. Trocco Analog Days iii. 60 As the Moog synthesizer evolved, it increasingly became seen as a keyboard instrument.

keyboard player n. (a) a person who plays a keyboard instrument, a keyboardist; (b) a device by means of which a keyboard instrument may be played automatically or remotely; cf. piano-player n. 2 (now historical).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun]

clavierist1845

keyboardist1872

keyboard player1881

keyboarder1929

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > player-piano > parts of

keyboard player1881

piano-player1898

metrostyle1903

1881 Musical Standard 12 Feb. 104/2 The keyboard player, who..has mastered his scales,..can very readily transpose into keys within reasonable reach of the original notation.

1886 Boston Daily Globe 31 July 6/5 List of patents... Roswell T. Smith, Nashun, N. H., keyboard player for musical instruments.

1913 Electr. World 1 Feb. 276/2 Organ tuner's keyboard player... For operating keys from a distance.

1940 A. E. Wier Piano ii. i.101 The exercises in contrapuntal playing which are provided..are..of great value to the mental development of any keyboard player.

2008 Your Local Guardian (Nexis) 22 Dec. I started as keyboard player so I like a lot of 80s synth nonsense, prog rock and psychedelic.

keyboard shortcut n. Computing a key or combination of keys that can be pressed as an alternative to a more time-consuming action, such as selecting options with a mouse in a graphical user interface.

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1984 InfoWorld 3 Sept. 72/2 Many of the most frequently used menu options—such as cut, copy, paste—can be activated by a keyboard shortcut that does not require a mouse.

1993 Macworld Dec. 143/2 In QuarkXPress you can assign keyboard shortcuts to styles (using numeric keypad and function keys only).

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Feb. c8/6 Once you learn them, keyboard shortcuts can save time and mouse work.

keyboard warrior n. (a) a person who is a particularly skilful pianist; (b) a person who uses a computer keyboard habitually, now esp. one who posts abusive or aggressive messages on the Internet, typically with a username that conceals his or her identity.

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1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Nov. 7/3 If she seemed to have been born with her techniques she solved..problems with which the most seasoned keyboard warriors continue to battle.

1986 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. b 6/1 Although nothing much ever happens in pro football between weekends, we keyboard warriors [sc. sports writers] must spend our midweek labors trying to sift through the ‘test of character’ blather.

2011 Times 30 July (Mag.) 15/3 Rationality often eludes the keyboard warrior.

2020 @uk_old 22 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Oct. 2020) Probably just a keyboard warrior, too scared to speak to you directly incase mummy overhears.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	keyboard
释义	keyboardn. Brit. /ˈkiːbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈkiˌbɔrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: key n.¹, board n. Etymology: < key n.¹ + board n. 1. a. A row or set of keys for producing the notes in an organ, piano, or similar instrument. Also: a set of bars on a xylophone or similar instrument. Also figurative.The modern standard keyboard layout, in which each octave consists of seven long keys interspersed with five shorter keys, has been in existence since at least the mid 15th cent. On a standard piano or organ the long keys are white and correspond to naturals, and the shorter keys are black and correspond to sharps or flats, although other arrangements are found on other, esp. older, instruments. Cf. also pedal keyboard n. at pedal n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > keyboard of clavier1708 keyboard1776 fingerboard1799 piano keyboard1863 claviature1883 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. iv. ix. 465 The citole, or cistole..might probably be an instrument resembling a box with strings on the top or belly, which by the application of the tastatura or key-board, borrowed from the organ, and jacks, became a spinnet. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organ Worked by..a treadle which comes out in the front of the instrument under the key board. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 126 A large organ generally possesses five key-boards one above the other. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 79 Uproar, that runs..up and down the long key-board of the beach. 1934 K. O'Brien Ante-room i. ix. 119 She rippled a fierce arpeggio up and down the keyboard, then swung round on the stool and faced her sister. 1952 Pop. Mech. Dec. 158/2 The keyboard [of the xylophone] includes two complete octaves. 1986 C. Gebler August in July (1987) 38 The pianist raising his hands and then crashing them down on the keyboard. 2004 N.Y. Times 11 Apr. ii. 34/3 From the opening outburst of vehement double octaves coursing down the keyboard, his playing is the more ferocious for its commanding control. b. A (usually portable) electronic musical instrument played by means of a piano-style keyboard and (now typically) able to produce a variety of sounds; = electronic keyboard n. (b) at electronic adj. Compounds. Also (frequently in plural and without article): such instruments as a class; the music or sounds produced by these. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] clavier1845 keyboard instrument1850 keyboard1969 key1973 1969 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. 82/3 It [sc. the band Chicago] consists of Robert Lamm, keyboard and vocals, Peter Cetera, bass and vocals, [etc.]. 1971 Ink 12 June 19/2 Toni Brown wrote most of the songs..and plays keyboards. 1985 Mail on Sunday 3 Mar. 22/4 (advt.) Here's your chance to win a Yamaha MK100 keyboard in our..competition. 1995 Orange Coast May 62/2 I played keyboards in the local rock band. 2007 Wired Aug. 76/3 The psych-pop tripsters' promising..first album splays reverb-drenched vocals over dense percussion, shuffling guitars, and soaring keyboards. 2. Originally: the set of keys on a typewriter, typesetting machine, switchboard, etc.; (later also) the panel of keys used to enter text or other data on a computer or similar electronic device.The standard layout on English-language typewriter or computer keyboards is known as the QWERTY keyboard: see QWERTY adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > other specific parts armOE button?1561 running gear1663 relax1676 collar1678 drumhead1698 long arm1717 drum1744 press cloth1745 head1785 absorber1789 bearing plate1794 crown1796 rhodings1805 press box1825 alternator1829 cushion1832 saw tooth1835 shoe1837 keyboard1839 returner1839 cross-head1844 channel shoe1845 baster1846 water port1864 shifter1869 magazine1873 entry port1874 upsetter1875 mechanism1876 tapper1876 tension bar1879 buttonholer1882 take-up1884 auger1886 instrument panel1897 balancer1904 torsion bar1937 powerhead1960 society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > keyboard keyboard1958 concept keyboard1983 1839 Repertory Patent Inventions 12 9 Such number may be increased..by applying a third battery,..and two extra keys, f, g, to the key-board. 1846 H. Highton Brit. Patent 11,070 Each terminus of telegraphic communication..is provided with..one of the key boards in use in single magnetic needle electric telegraphs. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1187 A printing keyboard, by which the blind are enabled to write. 1882 Spons' Encycl. Industr. Arts V. 1608 The ‘Remington’ machine has in front a key-board holding the letters and numerals. 1919 H. Etheridge Dict. Typewriting 208 It is usual to provide duplicate keys on each side of the keyboard, so that the shift may be operated with either hand. 1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing iii. 57 A keyboard transcriber for preparing magnetic tapes offers the advantage of eliminating records intermediate to the source document and the tape. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 321 The programmer sits at an electric typewriter connected to the computer, and keys in his program with the keyboard. 1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 17/1 (advt.) The detachable keyboard comes complete with numeric keypad. 2011 G. Gruman et al. Exploring iPad 2 for Dummies 137/2 Select QWERTY, AZERTY, or QWERTZ to choose the keyboard layout for the iPad's onscreen keyboard. Compounds C1. General attributive and other compounds. a. In sense 1, as keyboard music, keyboard playing, keyboard synthesizer, keyboard solo, etc. ΚΠ 1868 Musical Standard 4 Jan. 1/2 Those who have rescued some of the long-buried gems from that part of the old music-mine in which is hidden so much keyboard music. 1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 4 July 3/2 Keyboard exercise unduly developed the flexor muscles. 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 159/2 The most important study in keyboard playing. 1897 W. S. B. Matthews Music xxvii. 182 I have felt obliged to direct my attention to two main points,—keyboard mastery, and the development of taste. 1938 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 10 Aug. 14/2 Keyboard Concert, demonstration of electronic keyboard organ. 1940 Listener 1 Feb. 43/2 It..seemed probable that Bach intended..an orchestral link after a slow movement of some sort, perhaps a keyboard solo. 1969 B. H. Bronson Ballad as Song xviii. 297 In the new keyboard music the folk-tunes were mainly a thematic springboard for elaborate technical virtuosity. 1986 Down Beat Sept. 17/1 He's got a Yamaha sequencer MIDI-ed up to a Casio CZ-101 keyboard synthesizer. 1990 J. F. Eiche Yamaha Guide to Sound Syst. for Worship ii. 10/2 You..do your level best to keep from tripping over keyboard stands and..hitting your shins on guitar amps. 2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Mar. c3 Keyboard riffs guaranteed to, if not quicken the dead, at least enliven the lugubrious. b. In sense 2, as keyboard command, keyboard input, keyboard layout, keyboard letter, keyboard skills, etc. ΚΠ 1892 Western Electrician 18 June 372/3 Key-Board Circuit for Multiple Switch-Boards. 1901 Phonogr. Mag. Sept. 173/2 It [sc. a typewriter] is operated by electricity.., and all that the person writing has to do is to touch ever so lightly the keyboard letters. 1905 Railroad Telegrapher Mar. (end matter) (advt.) Of course you use a Typewriter. Why not use The Transmitting Typewriter, And, in Sending as well as Receiving, Employ your Present Keyboard Skill? 1906 Inland Printer Dec. 457/1 The number of changes made every day, some of them involving change of keyboard layout. 1948 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 214 He hopes to build..a baby machine... This machine will contain..rudimentary computing circuits, and probably a manual (keyboard) input. 1974 New Scientist 7 Feb. (advt.) 330 The Sharp PC 1001 has a really straightforward keyboard operation. 1989 InfoWorld 9 Oct. (advt.) 47 The trackball does everything a mouse does... It allows you to control the computer without complex keyboard commands. 1999 T. Ivergard in W. Karwowski & W. S. Marras Occup. Ergonomics Handbk. viii. 135 The most common keyboard layout is the QWERTY layout. 2005 S. Brennan NHS IT Project xiii. 154 Touch screens in a clinical setting will be welcomed..if they reduce the need for keyboard input. 2012 Milton Keynes Citizen (Nexis) 25 May The scheme..provides free training sessions in computer and keyboard skills. C2. keyboard instrument n. a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] clavier1845 keyboard instrument1850 keyboard1969 key1973 1850 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) May 279 The universal agreement as to the imperfection of the scale as executed on key-board instruments and other instruments of a variety of fixed scales. 1911 Etude Nov. 778/2 I advise you to take an interest in music other than that of the keyboard instruments. 2002 T. Pinch & F. Trocco Analog Days iii. 60 As the Moog synthesizer evolved, it increasingly became seen as a keyboard instrument. keyboard player n. (a) a person who plays a keyboard instrument, a keyboardist; (b) a device by means of which a keyboard instrument may be played automatically or remotely; cf. piano-player n. 2 (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] clavierist1845 keyboardist1872 keyboard player1881 keyboarder1929 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > player-piano > parts of keyboard player1881 piano-player1898 metrostyle1903 1881 Musical Standard 12 Feb. 104/2 The keyboard player, who..has mastered his scales,..can very readily transpose into keys within reasonable reach of the original notation. 1886 Boston Daily Globe 31 July 6/5 List of patents... Roswell T. Smith, Nashun, N. H., keyboard player for musical instruments. 1913 Electr. World 1 Feb. 276/2 Organ tuner's keyboard player... For operating keys from a distance. 1940 A. E. Wier Piano ii. i.101 The exercises in contrapuntal playing which are provided..are..of great value to the mental development of any keyboard player. 2008 Your Local Guardian (Nexis) 22 Dec. I started as keyboard player so I like a lot of 80s synth nonsense, prog rock and psychedelic. keyboard shortcut n. Computing a key or combination of keys that can be pressed as an alternative to a more time-consuming action, such as selecting options with a mouse in a graphical user interface. ΚΠ 1984 InfoWorld 3 Sept. 72/2 Many of the most frequently used menu options—such as cut, copy, paste—can be activated by a keyboard shortcut that does not require a mouse. 1993 Macworld Dec. 143/2 In QuarkXPress you can assign keyboard shortcuts to styles (using numeric keypad and function keys only). 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Feb. c8/6 Once you learn them, keyboard shortcuts can save time and mouse work. keyboard warrior n. (a) a person who is a particularly skilful pianist; (b) a person who uses a computer keyboard habitually, now esp. one who posts abusive or aggressive messages on the Internet, typically with a username that conceals his or her identity. ΚΠ 1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Nov. 7/3 If she seemed to have been born with her techniques she solved..problems with which the most seasoned keyboard warriors continue to battle. 1986 N.Y. Times 19 Dec. b 6/1 Although nothing much ever happens in pro football between weekends, we keyboard warriors [sc. sports writers] must spend our midweek labors trying to sift through the ‘test of character’ blather. 2011 Times 30 July (Mag.) 15/3 Rationality often eludes the keyboard warrior. 2020 @uk_old 22 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Oct. 2020) Probably just a keyboard warrior, too scared to speak to you directly incase mummy overhears. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). keyboardv. Brit. /ˈkiːbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈkiˌbɔrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: keyboard n. Etymology: < keyboard n. †1. transitive. To play (a keyboard instrument). Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (transitive)] keyboard1889 tickle1926 1889 H. von Bülow in Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 26 May 14/1 The following inscription in the pianist's own handwriting: ‘To the fair sister in key-boarding Chickering [sc. a make of piano], from a rough brother in Knabe playing.’ 2. a. transitive. To enter or produce (text or other data) using a keyboard on a typesetting machine, computer, etc.; = key v. 10. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (transitive)] keyboard1906 key1964 1906 Printing Art Oct. 136 Set keyboarded with 12-set scale, words spaced with 9-unit spaces. 1948 Words into Type 81 Justification of monotype lines is provided for, also automatically, as it is being keyboarded. 1969 Sci. Amer. May 68 After the encyclopedia..has been keyboarded into the computer. 1987 Wilson Libr. Bull. Mar. 9/3 The data will be keyboarded from the 360-volume printed edition. 2011 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 2 Jan. b1 I got the old manuscripts out and keyboarded them into a computer. b. intransitive. To enter or produce text using a keyboard; to type. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > use keyboard [verb (intransitive)] keyboard1965 1965 Rep. Proc. Computer Typesetting Conf. London Univ. 1964 v. 153 She is now keyboarding at a rate of 120 to 150 words a minute. 1988 ABA Jrnl. 1 June 16/2 If all your coders..can keyboard, and know the software,..online coding may be preferable. 2006 M. Russell Technol. & Assessment v. 70 Their students prefer to draft with computers and can keyboard moderately well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776v.1889
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keyboardn.

Compounds

keyboardv.