[syn: piano keyboard, fingerboard, clavier]
3. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
fingerboard \fingerboard\ n.
1. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index
finger.
Syn: fingerpost.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument.
Syn: piano keyboard, clavier.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed
instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the
strings are held against the wood with the fingers.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fingerboard
n 1: a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
[syn: fingerpost, fingerboard]
2: a bank of keys on a musical instrument [syn: piano
keyboard, fingerboard, clavier]
3: a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed
instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings
are held against the wood with the fingers
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "fingerboard":
A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad,
Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge,
bull fiddle, cello, choir, claviature, console, contrabass, crowd,
double bass, echo, eighty-eight, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick,
great, ivories, keyboard, keys, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin,
manual, organ manual, pedals, piano keys, scroll, solo, soundboard,
string, swell, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violin, violinette,
violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta