English
A computer keyboard
A piano keyboard
An electronic keyboard instrument
Noun
keyboard (plural keyboards)
- (computing, etc.) A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (electronic musical device): electronic keyboard
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
- Afrikaans: sleutelbord
- Albanian: tastierë (sq) f
- Arabic: لَوْحَة مَفَاتِيح f (lawḥat mafātīḥ)
- Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (stełnašar)
- Asturian: tecláu m
- Azeri: klaviatura
- Basque: teklatu (eu)
- Belarusian: клавіяту́ра f (klavijatúra)
- Bengali: কীবোর্ড (kiborḑ)
- Breton: klavier m
- Bulgarian: клавиату́ра (bg) f (klaviatúra)
- Burmese: ခလုတ်ခုံ (my) (hka.luthkum)
- Catalan: teclat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鍵盤, 键盘 (gin6 pun4, gin6 pun4⁻2)
- Hakka: 鍵盤, 键盘 (khien-phàn)
- Mandarin: 鍵盤 (zh), 键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)
- Min Nan: 鍵盤, 键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)
- Czech: klávesnice (cs) f
- Danish: tastatur (da)
- Dutch: toetsenbord (nl) n, klavier (nl) n
- Esperanto: klavaro (eo)
- Estonian: klaviatuur
- Faroese: knappaborð n
- Finnish: näppäimistö (fi)
- French: clavier (fr) m
- Galician: teclado (gl) m
- Georgian: კლავიატურა (ḳlaviaṭura)
- German: Tastatur (de) f
- Greek: πληκτρολόγιο (el) n (pliktrológio)
- Haitian Creole: klavye
- Hebrew: מִקְלֶדֶת (he) f (mikledet)
- Hindi: कीबोर्ड (kīborḍ)
- Hungarian: billentyűzet (hu), klaviatúra (hu)
- Icelandic: lyklaborð n, hnappaborð n (dated), leturborð n (dated)
- Ido: klavaro (io)
- Indonesian: papan ketik, papan tombol (id)
- Irish: méarchlár (ga) f, eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m
- Italian: tastiera (it) f
- Japanese: キーボード (ja) (kībōdo), 鍵盤 (ja) (kenban)
- Javanese: kibor
- Kalmyk: товчлур (tovçlur)
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component of many instruments
- Armenian: ստեղնաշար (hy) (stełnašar)
- Asturian: tecláu m
- Breton: klavier m
- Catalan: teclat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鍵盤, 键盘 (gin6 pun4, gin6 pun4⁻2)
- Hakka: 鍵盤, 键盘 (khien-phàn)
- Mandarin: 鍵盤 (zh), 键盘 (zh) (jiànpán)
- Min Nan: 鍵盤, 键盘 (kiān-pôaⁿ)
- Czech: klávesnice (cs) f, klaviatura f
- Dutch: klavier (nl) n, keyboard (nl) n
- Faroese: knappaborð n
- Finnish: koskettimisto (fi), koskettimet, sormio (fi)
- French: clavier (fr) m
- Galician: teclado (gl) m
- German: Tastatur (de) f, Klaviatur (de) f, Manual (de) n
- Greek: κλαβιέ (el) n (klavié)
- Irish: eochairchlár m, luibheanchlár m, méarchlár (ga) m
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electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard
Verb
keyboard (third-person singular simple present keyboards, present participle keyboarding, simple past and past participle keyboarded)
- (intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.
- Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.
Translations
to type in
- Bulgarian: набирам (bg) (nabíram)
- Catalan: teclejar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 打字 (daa2 zi6)
- Hakka: 打字 (tá-sṳ)
- Mandarin: 打字 (zh) (dǎzì)
- Min Nan: 拍字 (phah-jī, phah-lī), 打字 (táⁿ-jī, táⁿ-lī)
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