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Common
noun
•
An
object
designed
to
open
and
close
a
lock
.
•
An
object
designed
to
fit
between two other
objects
(such as a
shaft
and a
wheel
) in a
mechanism
and
maintain
their
relative
orientation
.
•
A
crucial
step
or
requirement
.
•
A
guide
explaining
the
symbols
or
terminology
of a
map
or
chart
; a
legend
.
•
A
guide
to the
correct
answers
of a
worksheet
or
test
.
•
In Computing:
One of several
small
,
usually
square
buttons
on a
typewriter
or
computer
keyboard
, mostly
corresponding
to
text
characters
.
•
In Music:
In
musical instruments
, one of the
valve
levers
used to
select
notes
, such as a
lever
opening
a
hole
on a
woodwind
.
•
In Music:
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
.
•
In Music:
the
key
of
B-flat major
The
lowest
note
of a
scale
;
keynote
.
In
musical
theory
, the
total
melodic
and
harmonic
relations
, which
exist
between the
tones
of an
ideal
scale
,
major
or
minor
;
tonality
.
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
.
In
musical notation
, a
sign
at the
head
of a
staff
indicating
the
musical
key
.
•
The
general
pitch
or
tone
of a
sentence
or
utterance
.
•
In Advertising:
A
modification
of an
advertisement
so as to
target
a
particular
group or
demographic
.
•
In Botany:
An
indehiscent
, one-seeded
fruit
furnished
with a
wing
, such as the
fruit
of the
ash
and
maple
; a
samara
.
•
A
manual
electrical
switching
device
primarily
used for the
transmission
of
Morse code
.
•
In Cryptography:
A
piece
of information (e.g. a
passphrase
) used to
encode
or
decode
a
message
or
messages
.
•
In Internet:
A
password
restricting
access
to an
IRC
channel
.
•
In Databases:
In a
relational database
, a
field
used as an
index
into another
table
(not
necessarily
unique
).
•
In Computing:
A value that
uniquely
identifies
an
entry
in a
container
.
•
In Basketball:
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
.
•
In Biology:
A
series
of
logically
organized
groups
of
discriminating
information which
aims
to
allow
the
user
to
correctly
identify
a
taxon
.
•
In Architecture:
A
piece
of
wood
used as a
wedge
.
•
In Architecture:
The last
board
of a
floor
when
laid down
.
•
In Masonry:
A
keystone
.
•
That part of the
plastering
which is
forced
through between the
laths
and
holds
the
rest
in place
.
•
In Rail transportation:
A
wooden
support for a
rail
on the
bullhead rail
system.
•
The
degree
of
roughness
, or
retention
ability
of a
surface
to have
applied
a
liquid
such as
paint
, or
glue
.
•
In Cartomancy:
The
thirty-third
card
of the
Lenormand
deck
.
•
The
black
ink
layer
,
especially
in relation to
the three
color
layers
of
cyan
,
magenta
, and
yellow
.
See also
CMYK
.
•
In Computer graphics & Television:
A
color
to be
masked
or made
transparent
.
•
One of a
string
of
small
islands
.
•
Alternative
form of
quay
.
•
Clipping
of
kilogram
verb
•
To
fit
(a
lock
) with a
key
.
•
To
fit
(pieces of a
mechanical
assembly
) with a
key
to
maintain
the
orientation
between them.
•
To
mark
or
indicate
with a
symbol
indicating
membership
in a
class
.
•
To
depress
(a
telegraph
key
).
•
In Radio:
To
operate
(the
transmitter
switch
of a
two-way
radio
).
•
In Computing:
(more
usually
to
key in
) To
enter
(information) by
typing
on a
keyboard
or
keypad
.
•
To
vandalize
(a
car
, etc.) by
scratching
with an
implement
such as a
key
.
•
To
link
(
as one
might do with a
key
or
legend
).
•
In Biology & Taxonomy:
To be
identified
as a certain
taxon
when using a
key
.
•
In Advertising:
To
modify
(an
advertisement
)
so as to
target
a
particular
group or
demographic
.
•
To
attune
to; to set at; to
pitch
.
•
To
fasten
or
secure
firmly
; to
fasten
or
tighten
with
keys
or
wedges
.
adj
•
Indispensable
,
supremely
important.
•
Important,
salient
.
name
•
A
surname
.
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yogini
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employee
carefree
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absentee
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Middle English (1100-1500)
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