keyboard

From key +‎ board.

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

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keyboard (plural keyboards)

1. (computing, etc.) A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
2. (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.
3. (music) A device with keys of a musical keyboard, used to control electronic sound-producing devices which may be built into or separate from the keyboard device.

• (electronic musical device): electronic keyboard, synthesizer

• 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/

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• 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/

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• Rhymes: -ibɔrt
• Syllabification: key‧board

keyboard m inan

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

   Synonym: klawiatura

• 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)