QWERTY keyboard
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- noun
- /ˈkwɜrti ˈkiːbɔrd/
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teclado QWERTY
- Subject 4, a 27-year-old nondisabled man, was a self-taught QWERTY keyboard typist.
- QWERTY keyboard layout
- standard QWERTY keyboard
- using a QWERTY keyboard
So for instance, the QWERTY keyboard on laptops is a path dependency from the QWERTY keyboard on typewriters.
- So for instance, the QWERTY keyboard on laptops is a path dependency from the QWERTY keyboard on typewriters.
- First major system of typing used the QWERTY keyboard to build the shape of the characters.
Examples
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With the proliferation of computers, most people are familiar with QWERTY keyboards and how they work.
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The QWERTY layout used in this study is the traditional QWERTY keyboard in terms of the alphabetic arrangement of letters.
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The phone has a QWERTY keyboard, though, which helps.
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I hope I can make it a full QWERTY keyboard in either mode.
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The telephone comes with a touchscreen display and also a QWERTY keyboard, which is prepared for any Dec launch.
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Each alternating treatment session involved six text entry trials: three text entry trials using the QWERTY keyboard layout and three using the default keyboard layout.
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So for instance, the QWERTY keyboard on laptops is a path dependency from the QWERTY keyboard on typewriters.
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The classic example is the QWERTY keyboard, which was created in 1873 with an oddly inefficient configuration of letters devised to keep typewriters' mechanical keys from sticking.
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Most computer users are familiar with the QWERTY keyboard layout that dominates typing on modern devices.
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The new smartphone includes a QWERTY keyboard that makes texting much easier.
Surface Forms
Morphology
QWERTY + keyboard
The string 'QWERTY' is a conventional proper name made from the first six letters on the top keyboard row rather than a compositional lexical item, so its meaning is not derivable by regular semantic composition. A learner who recognizes 'QWERTY' as that letter sequence and knows 'keyboard' can infer it refers to the common keyboard layout, but this requires familiarity with the naming convention rather than straightforward composition, so predictability is partial.
Etymology
QWERTY keyboard gets its name from the first six letters on the top row: Q, W, E, R, T, Y. One popular story says the maker of early typewriters spread common letters out so the metal bars would not jam, and because this layout became common, today QWERTY keyboard means 'the usual keyboard layout'.