Meaning of key | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. One of a string of small islands.
3. A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
   slang
4. An object designed to open and close a lock.
   countable
5. key (to open doors)
6. ISO 639-3 language code for Kupia
7. Of crucial importance; significant: key decisions; the key element of the thesis.
8. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
9. key (of musical instrument)
10. An object designed to open and close a lock
11. To make intense, excited, or nervous: The actors were keyed up before the opening.
12. A crucial step or requirement.
13. key (in heraldry)
14. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation
15. In consonance with other factors.
16. spanner, wrench
17. A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
18. A crucial step or requirement
19. Not in consonance with other factors.
20. faucet, tap, water tap, spigot
21. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
22. A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart
23. A low offshore island or reef, especially in the Gulf of Mexico; a cay.
24. One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
25. A kilogram of marijuana, cocaine, or heroin.
26. In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
27. a reef or low island; cay.
28. In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
29. a kilogram of marijuana or a narcotic drug.
30. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
31. Francis Scott, 1780–1843, U.S. lawyer: author of The Star-Spangled Banner.
32. The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
33. A means or method of entering into or achieving something desirable:formula, route, secret.
34. In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
35. In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
36. In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
37. The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
    figuratively
38. A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
39. An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
40. A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
    historical
41. A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
42. A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
    Internet
43. In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
44. A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
45. Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
46. A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
47. A piece of wood used as a wedge.
48. The last board of a floor when laid down.
49. A keystone.
50. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
51. A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
52. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
53. The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
54. The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
55. A color to be masked or made transparent.
56. The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
57. A key position player (a tall forward or defender).

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Examples

“We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.”

“The key to solving this problem is persistence.”

“the key to winning a game”

“Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books.”

“who keeps the keys of all the creeds”

“The PEOPLE'S DAILY today front pages a news item in column one in the experience of Yuhsi County in Yunnan which "mastered the law of agricultural field management, and found the key to increasing autumn grain production."”

“The key says that A stands for the accounting department.”

“Some students cheated by using the answer key.”

“Press the Escape key.”

“the key of B-flat major”

“A girl, it is true, has always lived in a glass house among reproving relatives, whose word was law; she has been bred up to sacrifice her judgments and take the key submissively from dear papa; and it is wonderful how swiftly she can change her tune into the husband's.”

“2. Queen.[…]Deere Glasse of Ladies Bid him that we whom flaming war doth scortch, Vnder the shaddow of his Sword, may coole us: Require him he advance it ore our heades; Speak't in a womans key: like such a woman As any of us three; weepe ere you faile; lend us a knee; But touch the ground for us no longer time Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off: Tell him if he i'th blood cizd field, lay swolne Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone What you would doe.”

“?, William Cowper, Conversation You fall at once into a lower key.”

“Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost.”

“if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.”

“radiator key”

“clock key”

“hex key”

“Torx key”

“The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.”

“You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.”

“There are key controls that adjust the “slice level” or the level at which the key kicks-in and starts cutting a hole for the “fill” […] Chroma key is another form of keying, which derives the key cutter or hole from a selected color.”

“He shoots from the top of the key.”

“"It just means that one of them here and there will need to play on a small-to-medium forward (instead of Riewoldt) which is fine. Our keys are pretty agile."”

“the Florida Keys”

“So starting with ten keys of cocaine and two keys of heroin, Derrick put his plan in motion. Soon every major drug dealer and gang chief from Chicago Avenue to Evanston was in his pocket.”

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