单词 | keyboard |
释义 | keyboard (once / 2339 pages) 1n 2n What do pianos and computers have in common? They both have keyboards! A computer keyboard has numbers and letters, but a piano keyboard has musical notes. The keyboard is the part that you press with your fingers. Besides the rockin’ keyboard of a synthesizer, piano, or organ, there is also the computer keyboard. This keyboard is used for typing, with the earliest examples being the keyboards on typewriters. Occasionally, the word keyboard is used as a verb, meaning "to type on keyboard." It’s also, literally, a board with little hooks to hang the other kind of keys on. The musical instrument meaning came first, around 1819. WORD FAMILYkeyboard: keyboardist, keyboards+/keyboardist: keyboardists USAGE EXAMPLESWe see Prince’s microphone and keyboards in the control room. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Gerstein’s recording is an admirable achievement, but it does not quite transcend Liszt’s keyboard acrobatics to reach a higher plane of musical expression. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) This news caused an Internet meltdown as people around the world raced to their keyboards to type: “Who is Meghan Markle?” Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like 2Hypo|Hyper computer keyboard, keypad a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard clavier, fingerboard, piano keyboarda bank of keys on a musical instrument typewriter keyboarda keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed QWERTY keyboardthe standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose n holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung Hyper holder a holding device |
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