TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typewriter keyboard mean? 

• TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD (noun)
  The noun TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD has 1 sense:

1. a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed

  Familiarity information: TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD (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)