dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/qwe_MW.json
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{
"qwerty":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a standard English-language typewriter or computer keyboard on which the first six letters of the second row are q , w , e , r , t , and y":[
"QWERTY may not have had the most sensible keyboard arrangement, but it had the advantage that it had been out longer than most other designs. Throughout the 1880s, typewriters with a variety of keyboard layouts were sold, but in the 1890s the market moved more and more toward QWERTY , and by the first decade of the twentieth century it had taken over.",
"\u2014 Robert Pool",
"The QWERTY keyboard , a central artifact of the information economy, was arranged in the 1870s with a deliberately awkward pattern of letters to slow typists down so they wouldn't jam the innards of early typing machines.",
"\u2014 Timothy K. Smith"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8kwer-",
"\u02c8kw\u0259r-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from the first six letters in the second row of the keyboard":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1929, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190756"
}
}