key|board

key|board «KEE _BRD, -_BOHRD», noun, verb.

–n.

set of keys in a piano, organ, typewriter, computer, calculating machine, or typesetting machine.

–v.t.

1. to feed (information) by the use of an electronic keyboard: »

After the encyclopedia, consisting of many volumes, has been keyboarded into the computer, the computer under instruction withdraws the material on a specified subject from its memory storage and sets it up for publication as a separate book or pamphlet (Scientific American).

2. to produce music on a keyboard instrument: »

Roosevelt Sykes keyboards his “Highway 61 Blues” (Esquire).

–v.i.

1. to use a keyboard.

2. to play a keyboard instrument.