🎹 A group of notes 🟠 A straight line 🎸 To play notes together 🎶 To harmonize ⌨️ To press keys together

to chord

9.9

To press several keys at the same time to enter letters or commands

verb
/kɔrd/

Specialized

: teclear con combinaciones de teclas

He practiced every day to chord efficiently when typing reports for his job as a transcriber.

Examples

By learning how to chord, you can enhance your typing speed and accuracy significantly.
In order to input text quickly, she learned to chord various commands on her specialized keyboard.
So chord, chord, thumb, chord, chord, chord, thumb, chord.

Synonyms

to key in

vsto chord

3 3.4

To type information into a computer or device using a keyboard

uses simultaneous keys pressed together rather than single presses

to typewrite

vsto chord

Archaic

1 7.3

To write by pressing keys on a typewriter or keyboard

involves pressing several keys simultaneously rather than single sequential presses

to keyboard

vsto chord

3.5

To type text into a computer or device using a set of keys

uses multiple keys pressed at once instead of individual presses

Idioms

to strike a chord

18 4.4

Make people feel a strong connection when it seems familiar

to touch a chord

Informal

2 5.8

To make a person feel a strong emotion

Compounds

seventh chord

Specialized

1 7.3

A chord of three notes with one extra note seven notes above the first

common chord

Specialized

4.4

A set of three notes played together, the main note and two higher notes, making a major or minor sound

dissonant chord

Specialized

7.7

A group of musical notes played together that sound tense and not smooth

Surface Forms

chord infinitive

chorded past

chorded past participle

chording present participle

chords third person singular

Etymology

Chord for keyboards comes from the musical chord, a group of notes originally like several strings played together. So to chord on a special keyboard is to press several keys at once to make that group of notes.