TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("typewriter keyboard" is a kind of...):

keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)

Meronyms (parts of "typewriter keyboard"):

backspace; backspace key; backspacer (the typewriter key used for back spacing)

shift; shift key (the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters)

space bar (the bar-shaped typewriter key that introduces spaces when used)

tab; tab key (the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "typewriter keyboard"):

QWERTY keyboard (the standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys)

Holonyms ("typewriter keyboard" is a part of...):

typewriter (hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time)