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key
English
- 🔊 serving as an essential component“a cardinal rule”
- 🔊 metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- 🔊 a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- 🔊 pitch of the voice“he spoke in a low key”
- 🔊 something crucial for explaining“the key to development is economic integration”
- 🔊 a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access“a safe-deposit box usually requires two keys to open it”
- 🔊 a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- 🔊 a list of answers to a test“some students had stolen the key to the final exam”
- 🔊 any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- 🔊 (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court“he hit a jump shot from the top of the key”
- 🔊 a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- 🔊 United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812
- 🔊 a kilogram of a narcotic drug“they were carrying two keys of heroin”
- 🔊 the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- 🔊 mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- 🔊 a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- 🔊 harmonize with or adjust to“key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitude”
- 🔊 regulate the musical pitch of
- 🔊 vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key“His new Mercedes was keyed last night in the parking lot”
- 🔊 provide with a key“We were keyed after the locks were changed in the building”
- 🔊 identify as in botany or biology, for example
Spanish
- 🔊 dominante key, prevailing
- 🔊 tecla key, button (on a machine or instrument)