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▪ I. keyboard, n.|ˈkiːbɔəd|
[key n.1 11.]
1. a. The set or row of keys in such musical instruments as the organ and piano.
1819Pantologia s.v. Organ, Worked by..a treadle, which comes out in the front of the instrument, under the key board. 1856Mrs. C. Clarke tr. Berlioz' Instrument. 126 A large organ generally possesses five key-boards one above the other. 1896Hipkins Pianoforte 5 The keyboard with its ivory and ebony notes [is seen] when the front of the instrument is opened.
fig.1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 491 In this case the soul would stand..before the open key-board of the central nerve-terminations. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains 79 Uproar that runs..up and down the long key-board of the beach.
attrib.1896Hipkins Pianoforte 46 The various keyboard instruments. Ibid. 65 A keyboard psaltery of a harp-shaped disposition.
b. pl. Musical instruments that have keyboards. colloq.
1971Ink 12 June 19/2 Toni Brown wrote most of the songs..and plays keyboards. 1971Melody Maker 13 Nov. 40/6 Rod's been playing keyboards since he was six. 1974Ibid. 30 Nov. 46 The other four are the originals: Darryl Way on violin, Francis Monkman on keyboards and guitar, [etc.].
2. The set of keys in a type-writing machine. Also, a similar set in other kinds of machine.
1846H. Highton Brit. Pat. 11,070 3 Feb., Each terminus of telegraphic communication..is provided with..one of the key boards in use in single magnetic needle electric telegraphs. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1187 A printing keyboard, by which the blind are enabled to write. 1859Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing (Patent Office) 594 By depressing any one of the several keys on a key-board a lever is acted on,..thus giving motion to certain guide pulleys and cords which work the pistons by which the type is thrust out on to the guide plate. 1881Spon's Dict. Indust. Arts 1608 The ‘Remington’ machine has in front a key-board holding the letters and numerals. 1892A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) xxxii. 310 Hattersley's Composing Machine. The type..is contained in the upper part of an iron framework about 3 feet square and 5 feet high. In the lower part of this framework is the key board. 1893Times 25 Sept. 2/6 A machine..possessing remarkable capabilities for printing and adding up figures has recently reached this country from the United States... The keyboard has a number of buttons or keys, each representing a figure, and these are actuated for pounds, shillings, and pence just in the same way as a typewriter. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 545/1 Composing machines in which the compositor put together types in the required order..by operating a keyboard which liberated them from magazines and assembled them in the order in which the keys had been struck. 1958Gotlieb & Hume High-Speed Data Processing iii. 57 A keyboard transcriber for preparing magnetic tapes offers the advantage of eliminating records intermediate to the source document and the tape. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xix. 321 The programmer sits at an electric typewriter connected to the computer, and keys in his program with the keyboard.
▸ A (usually portable) musical instrument consisting of a piano-style keyboard and integrated microelectronics; = electronic keyboard n. (b) at electronic adj. Special uses
1969N.Y. Times 16 Nov. 82/3 It [sc. the band Chicago] consists of Robert Lamm, keyboard and vocals, Peter Cetera, bass and vocals, [etc.]. 1985Mail on Sunday 3 Mar. 22/4 (advt.) Here's your chance to win a Yamaha MK100 keyboard in our..competition. 1989Forte Mag. (Roland Home Mus.) Spring 24/3, I walk into a venue,..a keyboard under my arm..and then for the first number I'll do some big band number. 2000S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. ii. 604/1 A more pop-oriented urban form relying on keyboards and synthesizer in place of the accordion.
▪ II. keyboard, v.|ˈkiːbɔəd|
[f. the n.]
trans. = key v. 8. Also absol. or intr.
1961H. W. Larken Compositor's Work in Printing xii. 166 Concentration on the task of keyboarding the copy to the exclusion of any concern over the performance of the operations of matrix assembly, casting and distribution, gives a remarkably clean proof with a high setting speed. 1965Rep. Proc. Computer Typesetting Conf. London Univ. 1964 v. 153 She is now keyboarding at a rate of 120 to 150 words a minute. 1967Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 43 Let me now digress..to illustrate some keyboards and photocomposing machines, for the more conventional way of generating character codes is to keyboard them. 1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes ii. 40 The RCA-301 computer accepts punched paper tape and produces a new tape, adding justification (otherwise keyboarded by the Teletypesetter operator). 1969Sci. Amer. May 68 After the encyclopedia..has been keyboarded into the computer. 1973Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. CCXI. 284 It is now possible..to keyboard matter on an ordinary IBM Selectric typewriter..and feed it into an OCR machine where the characters are read automatically..and then transcribed onto magnetic tape.
Hence ˈkeyboarded ppl. a.; ˈkeyboarding vbl. n., the action or process of keyboarding something; manipulation of the keys of a keyboard.
1926Sans Tache in E. Mayer Clin. Applications of Sunlight 470 There are two processes, the ‘keyboarding’ of the MS and the casting of the type. 1965Rep. Proc. Computer Typesetting Conf. London Univ. 1964 iv. 143 Due to the rather inferior setting in the first hand keyboarded material counted, we probably opened up the computer parameters a little too widely. 1965Practical Printing & Binding (ed. 3) iii. 41/1 An attachment to speed up the keyboarding of lines which require to be letter-spaced. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry ii. 96/2 The product of keyboarding is a punched tape which is used to assemble lines of justified type images on composing machines equipped for tape operation. 1970Brit. Printer Mar. 67/3 No operator with less than five years' keyboarding experience scored higher than 87 per cent in the test. |