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TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
