noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer keyboard
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The computer keyboard is shaped to put less strain on your wrists.
a keyboard instrument
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Keyboard instruments are relatively easy to learn.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electric
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If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments, an electric keyboard can lie appropriate.
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A manual typewriter is physically harder to use than an electric keyboard .
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He wrote the books in 1985 to help people with physical disabilities enjoy electric keyboard music.
electronic
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The idea of structureless meanderings on electronic keyboards , of musical tasks being in any way simplified, appals him.
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He is surrounded by an electronic keyboard , a rack of music equipment, a recording microphone and a personal computer.
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The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards , and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.
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It was an electronic piano keyboard , a rip-off of the Yamaha instrument that was a big Christmas seller in the States.
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Glass himself will be one of a trio of musicians playing the electronic keyboards during the performance.
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Eo made an Etch-a-Sketch-like personal communicator that replaced the electronic keyboard with a pen.
qwerty
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Apart from its legs it resembled an old fashioned typewriter with a carriage and Qwerty keyboard .
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The QWERTY keyboard was, and still is, the principal input device.
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Natural Communication with Computers Communication with computers and computer controlled machinery is normally achieved using a QWERTY keyboard .
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The QWERTY keyboard has its origins in the days of early mechanical typewriters.
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The major problem with the QWERTY keyboard is that it needs to be learnt.
standard
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System control is via a standard computer keyboard .
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Besides a standard keyboard , the memex would have rows of buttons and levers.
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How many keys are provided on the standard keyboard ?
■ NOUN
computer
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Secondly, the computer keyboard has many additional keys which are used to alter the function of the alpha-numeric keys.
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System control is via a standard computer keyboard .
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More than a dozen Web sites have information about Dvorak, and many offer software for converting computer keyboards .
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After the clatter of the Linotypes, the tick-tick-tick of computer keyboards sounds eerie and aseptic.
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This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis.
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On a two-deck trolley to his right a V.D.U. stood above a computer keyboard .
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She attacked the computer keyboard with renewed vigour.
player
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Dennis the keyboard player in Relief comes over and talks incoherent rubbish to no-one in particular.
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She guessed that her weekly visits made her a regular, for the keyboard player nodded at her and the guitarist/vocalist grinned.
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Guitarist Parks was replaced by keyboard player Steve Gurl, while yet another new drummer was recruited-Andy Ebsworth.
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The keyboard player obviously cares more about advancing his or her career than the future of the band.
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The keyboards player spilt beer on his synthesizer.
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Let's not end up like the keyboard players who have to call in programmers.
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Kyle MacLachlan as keyboard player Ray Manzarek.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dorfman plays keyboards -- an injury preventing him from shouldering his usual accordion.
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More than a dozen Web sites have information about Dvorak, and many offer software for converting computer keyboards.
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She focuses the music on her keyboards and her front-and-center vocals, which can be breathy and intimate or jagged.
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The keyboard is the input device.
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The ideal position for the mouse is on the same plane as the keyboard and as close to the keyboard as possible.
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The program can be used to record music input directly from the computer keyboard .