(n.) The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(2) A 32 key keyboard offers many advantages for use with the HP PDMS.
(3) Before physically disabled individuals can operate augmentative communication devices, computer keyboards or other assistive or rehabilitative devices, they should be provided with the optimum seated posture from which to operate.
(4) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(5) I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.
(6) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(7) Units are selected by the computer to meet requirements specified by the operator of a keyboard terminal.
(8) In total 99 patients, visiting the outpatient clinic of Internal Medicine for the first time, took part in this in-depth study, in which they could express themselves via an interactive and modified terminal and keyboard.
(9) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(10) You have CEOs of major companies who whip out their BlackBerrys because of the keyboard.
(11) Perhaps his keyboard should have been shaped like a Snapchat of a stranger's todger instead.
(12) Pins (dots) being used to represent written information on a braille keyboard, the device in this application is not used as an input but for output purposes.
(13) Critics have focused on the price, which ranges from £429 to £699, and point out that "netbook" computers with full keyboards are available for about £350.
(14) Keyboard work consists mostly of dynamic contractions of the small muscles of the forearms and hands.
(15) There was sweat in every stroke and that was just on this keyboard.
(16) The interrelationships of these ocular and orthopedic phenomena have been synthesized into a comprehensive hypothesis, in an effort to create a computer configuration which permits a greater integration of the keyboard (tool-usage) with the screen-visualization (product-of-tool-usage), and improves visual feedback.
(17) On the day that Sony Pictures decided to cancel the release of The Interview – a comedy about the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un – the firm’s employees were advised to cover their keyboard with a cloth when logging into email “so that hackers can’t see what you are typing”.
(18) But we stuck with them because we all use them heavily for email and the qwerty keyboard is much faster than a touchscreen, especially for one who has touchtyped at the speed of light since I was 13.
(19) The new keyboard is the jewel in the crown and RIM has mastered the experience.
(20) Keyboard operators had an odds ratio of 3.0 for tension neck syndrome (five studies).
Piano
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
(a.) Alt. of Pianoforte
Example Sentences:
(1) However, because my film was dominated by a piano, I didn't want the driving-strings sound he'd used for Greenaway.
(2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
(3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(4) What is there now is more like the designs that Piano produced almost 12 years ago than seemed likely.
(5) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(6) The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated piano sound was investigated.
(7) Starting small, with oddly tweaked vocal samples and ominous-sounding piano, the first half is brilliantly brooding, to the point where the first chorus of “I love these streets but they weren’t meant for me to walk” arrives at the 45-second mark just as all the music drops away completely.
(8) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(9) In Piano's case, the answer is clear, and he has wasted no time in setting it in motion.
(10) I used to teach piano to two girls across the road,” says Boyle.
(11) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(12) Collectively known as "the Huntsman girls" the three young women – piano teacher Mary Anne, public relations expert Abby and fashion industry hopeful Liddy – have campaigned actively for their father, especially using social media.
(13) When Piano was designing his first major building in the US - the Menil Collection in Houston, completed in 1987 - I remember discussing the notion of "soft machine" buildings with him.
(14) Instead of learning to read sheet music Olsen, in childhood piano lessons, preferred to memorise, only getting caught out when she neglected to turn any pages.
(15) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
(16) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
(17) I step in front of her, turn around, and tell the adult seated at the piano, “Keep playing that music.” He obeys; I turn back to the audience and do my notion of a dance for a few minutes.
(18) Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer-monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis.
(19) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(20) Ed Balls has just passed grade four piano , aged 47.