What is the difference between typewriter and keyboard?
typewriter | keyboard |
A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
(archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
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.
As nouns the difference between typewriter and keyboard
is that typewriter is a device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper while keyboard is a set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.As a verb keyboard is
to type on a computer keyboard.typewriter
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Noun
(en noun)- The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?"'' -- ''The Southpaw , Mike Harris, 1953.