keyboard

Pronunciation

• (UK) (AU) IPA ^(key): /ˈkiːbɔːd/, SAMPA: /"kibO:d/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /kiˈbɔrd/, SAMPA: /ki"bOrd/

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Noun

Singular keyboard

Plural keyboards

1. (countable) (music) A keyboard is a range of black and white keys (buttons) on a musical instrument.

   Pianos, organs, harpsicords and some accordions have keyboards.

2. (typing) ; (countable) A keyboard is also a set of square or rectangular buttons on a typewriter or a computer.

   Almost everybody has to use a keyboard in everyday life nowadays.

• 

  A musical keyboard

• 

  A computer keyboard

Verb

Plain form keyboard

Third-person singular keyboards

Past tense keyboarded

Past participle keyboarded

Present participle keyboarding

1. To keyboard is to type on a computer keyboard.

   Everyday life in an office usually consists in keyboarding.

Related words

• key
• board