Keyboardings

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. The act or process of typing on a keyboard; the skill or method of inputting data using a keyboard; a sequence of key presses performed to produce text or commands
2. The activity involving the use of fingers to operate a keyboard for entering information; the technique adopted for keyboard use; the series of keystrokes executed during text or data entry
3. The practice of inputting written material by pressing keys on a keyboard; the competency in managing keyboard devices; the completed pattern of typing actions to generate digital content

Etymology: "Keyboarding" is formed by adding the suffix "-ing" to "keyboard", so its history is essentially the history of its parts. "Key" comes from Old English "cǣġ", and "board" from Old English "bord", a flat piece of timber. Put together, a keyboard was originally a board of keys, the row of levers that a player pressed to sound an organ or a similar instrument, and the word later passed to typewriters and then computers. The suffix does the rest of the work. Adding "-ing" to a noun turns the compound into an activity, so "keyboarding" names the act of working such a board, and in its modern sense the act of typing text electronically. Its plural, "keyboardings", simply counts separate instances of that activity, for example different sessions or kinds of typing work.

Synonyms: typing, keying, inputting, data entry, texting

Antonyms: erasing, deleting, removing, ignoring, neglecting