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keyboard

/kee-bawrd/US // ˈkiˌbɔrd //UK // (ˈkiːˌbɔːd) //

键盘,鼠标,键盘上的,滑鼠

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like: I was playing piano before my feet could reach the pedals or my fingers could cover a chord on the keyboard.
    • : a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, computer, cash register, or the like, or a digital representation of the same on a touchscreen used to type on a device such as a smartphone or tablet: I spilled coffee on my keyboard, and now the return key sticks so my documents are full of extra line breaks.
    • : any of various musical instruments played by means of a pianolike keyboard, as a piano, electric piano, or organ: You basically need four people to start a rock band—someone on lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, and keyboard.
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    • : Also key, key in . to enter into a computer by means of a keyboard: If you can get changes keyboarded by Monday, we should still be able to make the project deadline.
    • : to set in type, using a machine that is operated by a keyboard.

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Examples

  • Often it is easier and faster to type on a full size keyboard when responding to customer requests.

  • It is WAnon, because W is even farther to the right than Q on your sacred canvas, the computer keyboard.

  • Sure, there will still be hands-on keyboards, but it will be less so.

  • These days, the internet is a big help — you can learn a lot from the comfort of your keyboard.

  • If a hurricane is about to create havoc in your community, don’t just fill sandbags, hit your keyboard and use open-source technologies to not only help your community, but to scale solutions to help others.

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

  • The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.

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

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

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

  • The keyboard had eleven, twelve, even thirteen keys in diatonic succession without semitones.

  • Depression of these key-touches brought different combinations of stops into use on the keyboard above which they were placed.

  • Some fine effects could be produced by this, but of course the whole keyboard was affected and only chords could be played.

  • These pistons were placed below the keyboard whose stops they affected.

  • It is now becoming more and more common to arrange for the transference of stops from one keyboard to another.