Keyboard vs. Monitor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Keyboard and Monitor
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Keyboard
A panel of buttons used for typing and performing other functions on a computer or typewriter.
Monitor
One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.
Keyboard
A row of levers that are depressed with the fingers to produce or modulate the sound of an instrument, such as a piano or organ.
Monitor
A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.
Keyboard
Any of various instruments, played by means of a musical keyboard, often connected to a synthesizer or amplifier.
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Monitor
A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.
Keyboard
To set (copy) by means of a keyed typesetting machine
Keyboard a manuscript.
Monitor
A video display or speaker used in a production studio to check audio or video quality
The sound engineer detected a hiss on the monitor.
Keyboard
To enter (text or data) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
Monitor
(Computers)A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen; a video display.
Keyboard
(Music) To play (a composition) on a piano or keyboard.
Monitor
(Computers)A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs.
Keyboard
A set of keys used to operate a typewriter, computer etc.
Monitor
An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.
Keyboard
(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.
Monitor
A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.
Keyboard
(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.
Monitor
A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.
Keyboard
(intransitive) To type on a computer keyboard.
Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.
Monitor
See monitor lizard.
Keyboard
The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys{3} of an organ, piano, typewriter, etc.; that part of a device containing the keys{3} used to operate it.
Monitor
To check the quality or content of (an electronic audio or visual signal) by means of a receiver.
Keyboard
Device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like
Monitor
To check by means of an electronic receiver for significant content, such as military, political, or illegal activity
Monitor a suspected criminal's phone conversations.
Keyboard
Holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung
Monitor
To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information
Monitor the bear population of a national park.
Monitored the political views of the people.
Monitor
To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis
Monitored the city's drinking water for impurities.
Monitor
To keep close watch over; supervise
Monitor an examination.
Monitor
To direct.
Monitor
To act as a monitor.
Monitor
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
Monitor
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
Monitor
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
The information flashed up on the monitor.
Monitor
A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
Monitor
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
A machine code monitor
Monitor
A student leader in a class.
Monitor
(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. from 1862
Monitor
(archaic) An ironclad.
Monitor
A monitor lizard.
Monitor
(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Monitor
(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
Monitor
A monitor nozzle.
Monitor
(transitive) To watch over; to guard.
Monitor
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king.
Monitor
Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
Monitor
Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
Monitor
An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
Monitor
A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
Monitor
A monitor nozzle.
Monitor
Display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen
Monitor
Someone who supervises (an examination)
Monitor
Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
Monitor
An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac
Monitor
Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
Monitor
A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
Monitor
Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
Monitor
Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
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