Keyboard vs Qwerty - What's the difference?
keyboard | qwerty |
A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
(music) A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
(music) A device with keys of a musical keyboard, used to control electronic sound-producing devices which may be built into or separate from the keyboard device.
Denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.
* 1978 , Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science , v 24 (Printers and Printing/Arabic Printing to Public Policy/Copyright, and Information Technology), p 109:
As a noun keyboard
is a set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.As a verb keyboard
is to type on a computer keyboard.As an adjective qwerty is
denoting a standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.keyboard
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (electronic musical device) electronic keyboardDerived terms
* keyboard shortcutqwerty
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(-)- It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a “qwerty ” typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.
