What's the difference between keyboard and typewriter?

Keyboard


Definition:

  • (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).

Typewriter


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.
  • (n.) One who uses such an instrument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
  • (2) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
  • (3) Apart from the novels, plays, film scripts, sitcoms and magazine articles that flowed unceasingly from his vintage Adler typewriter (he hated new technology), he also wrote a twice-weekly newspaper column, beginning in the Daily Mirror in 1970, and from 1988 for the Daily Mail, until the paper announced his retirement last May.
  • (4) He is not allowed a typewriter or computer, and spends most of his day reading memoirs of those who wrote while incarcerated.
  • (5) The church panels that inspired the petitions’ design can be seen in a dimmed room at nearby Yirrkala art centre, where it’s rumoured you can also see the typewriter that clacked out the petition in English and Yolngu – another seminal achievement.
  • (6) Christian Flisek, the SPD's representative on the committee, told Spiegel Online: "This call for mechanical typewriters is making our work sound ridiculous.
  • (7) The system depends on the preparation of reports on an electric typewriter producing punched paper tape as a byproduct.
  • (8) By means of this simple system there is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medical staff has been reduced.
  • (9) A few weeks went by before the unthinkable happened: I received a fax from New York with a letter from Salinger himself – densely typed on a manual typewriter with, at the top, the date and the word "Cornish", the town in New Hampshire where he lived his reclusive life.
  • (10) But judging by the reaction to Sensburg's comments, manual typewriters are unlikely to be widely adopted in German political circles.
  • (11) This investigation explored the interaction of progressive-part versus whole methods of practice with hemispheric preference for processing information and the impact of each upon high school students' speed and accuracy in beginning typewriting.
  • (12) He was said to have written his first story, entitled Jim's Adventure, aged eight, the framed first page of which, picked out with two fingers on his father's typewriter, had pride of place in his study.
  • (13) For example, full pronation may be required for feeding, but only half the range is necessary to operate the keyboard of a computer or typewriter.
  • (14) We describe four cases of sudden death in adolescents associated with recreational sniffing of typewriter correction fluid occurring during the period 1979 through mid-1984.
  • (15) I didn't like to write about my own writing, but I was interested in how my children - I have many children, eight children - how they saw their father with his typewriter, an old-fashioned typewriter.
  • (16) Asked "Are you considering typewriters" by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either".
  • (17) Blind people may use reading machines with speech output to become relatively independent in text reading and text preparation using typewriters.
  • (18) She joined Chatto & Windus when publishers used carbon paper and typewriters and stopped for tea daily.
  • (19) In a few minutes, he's done and we find ourselves gazing at a TV screen that fills with streams of code, ASCII typewriter-style stuff like I used to see in my short year of computer science lessons (1982-83).
  • (20) take into consideration the utilisation of the Olivetti calculator system including the following hardware: P 652 basic unit microcomputer; paper tape reader LN 20; Editor 4 ST typewriter, for RIA evaluation.