Definitions for keyboard

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keyboard key·board

Spelling: [kee-bawrd, -bohrd]

IPA: /ˈkiˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Keyboard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in keyboard (abdekory).

Definitions for keyboard

noun

1. the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
2. a set of keys usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
3. any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Also, key, key in. Computers. to enter (information) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
2. to set (text) in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.

Origin of keyboard

First recorded in 1810-20; key¹ + board

Examples for keyboard

As one of these images shows, every key punch was in the script and linked to a graphic of the keyboard.

Carroll talks to me over the sound of an organ projecting from a Yamaha keyboard.

Then he went to the piano, lifted the lid and ran his fingers over the keyboard.

Their future neighbours are hoping that they will get one without a keyboard.

Like his three brothers, Art, the Nevilles' keyboard player, has his thing on the side—the Meters, the band he took to Europe.

The general public has never paid much attention to his music, but other pianists know what this man can do at the keyboard.

But hit out on the keyboard a smashing chord and, pray, where is the variety in color?

Art led the family starship on keyboard and did his own good share of singing.

Perhaps there would be no longer our pianoforte, our keyboard.

But he played, played furiously, and he smote the keyboard as if he hated it.