Word Finder - keys

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An object designed to open and close a lock.

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An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.

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A crucial step or requirement.

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The key to solving this problem is persistence.

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A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.

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The key says that A stands for the accounting department.

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A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.

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Some students cheated by using the answer key.

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One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

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Press the Escape key.

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In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.

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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.

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The lowest note of a scale; keynote.

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In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.

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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.

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In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.

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The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

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A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.

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An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.

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A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.

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A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

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A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

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In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

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A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

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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.

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He shoots from the top of the key.

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A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

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A piece of wood used as a wedge.

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The last board of a floor when laid down.

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A keystone.

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That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

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A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.

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The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.

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

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The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.

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(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.

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A color to be masked or made transparent.

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To fit (a lock) with a key.

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To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.

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To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.

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(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).

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To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).

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(more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.

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Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

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To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.

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He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.

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To link (as one might do with a key or legend).

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To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.

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To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.

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To attune to; to set at; to pitch.

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To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

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One of a string of small islands.

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the Florida Keys

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In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg

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The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

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A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.

The keys were with each of the trunks.

Where are your keys, Jessi?

He retrieved the keys from the board and tossed them to her.

She entered and saw car keys on the table near the door.

He dug the keys out of his pocket.

As they neared the car, he held the keys up to her.

She keeps the relative position of the keys by an occasional touch of the little finger on the outer edge of the board.

Order the keys to be taken from me, said he.

If I had the keys, I'd use them!

He opened the top drawer and withdrew a key chain with a couple of keys and a tag.

Jackson handed him the keys.

She was a fed, and a powerful one if she held the keys to the government's secret emerops facilities.

He reached inside the truck and snatched the keys out.

Jessi dug the keys out of her purse and handed them over.

I forgot my new keys and didn't want to wake you folks.

He passed off his keys to a valet.

These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.

Fred shrugged as he continued to pound away at the keys.

Ashley asked as she passed him the keys.

She made her way clumsily through one episode and then watched as his long fingers moved gracefully over the keys.

Martha searched for her keys.

This time our keys say 'Bird Song' on the key fob.

They danced over the keys, coaxing beautiful sound from each one.

She walked around the car and handed him the keys.

The keys were located all over the world, except for four of them, which were based here in the command center.

Four keys capable of destroying a continent—and winning a war—were taken under their noses.

No matter what was going on, she had to protect the keys capable of destroying the world.

She opened it and stacked the keys in it.

If Arnie smuggled one out of the command center, he may have the remaining keys in his quarters.

And that she holds the keys to the world's survival in her hands, Brady added silently.

He reached into his pocket for the truck keys.

She joined him and held out the keys.

He handed her the iPad and accepted the keys.

He tossed her the keys.

The car has GPS tracking, along with the keys.

When one of a series of keys (each corresponding to a letter) arranged round a pointer is depressed, the motion of the pointer, which is geared to the shuttle armature, is arrested on coming opposite that particular key, and the transmission of the currents to line is stopped, though the armature itself can continue to rotate.

The battery is kept to the line by the bar c, which short-circuits the keys.

The perforation of the paper when done by hand is usually performed by means of small mallets, but at the central telegraph office in London, and at other large offices, the keys are only used for opening air-valves, the actual punching being done by pneumatic pressure.

The keyboard has five keys similar to those of a piano, and the letters and figures are obtained by the different combinations which can be formed by the raised and depressed keys.

At regular intervals a rotating arm on the distributor connects the five keys of each keyboard to line, thus passing the signals to the distant station, where they pass through the distributor and certain relays which repeat the currents corresponding to the depressed keys and actuate electromagnets in the receivers.

Each receiver is provided with five electromagnets corresponding to the five keys of the keyboard, and the armatures of the electromagnets can thus repeat the various combinations for all the signals allocated to the different combinations of the keys.

The signals must therefore be sent at regular intervals, and to ensure this being done correctly a telephone or time-tapper is provided at each keyboard to warn the operator of the correct moment to depress his keys.

The Creed system is a development of the Morse-Wheatstone system, and provides a keyboard perforator which punches Morse letters or figures on a paper strip by depressing type writer keys.

They fought for bare existence, for primacy in commerce, for the command of seaports, for the keys of mountain passes, for rivers, roads and all the avenues of wealth and plenty.

Early in the year the crown prince Humbert with the Princess Margherita took up their residence in the Quirinal Palace, which, in view of the Vatican refusal to deliver up the keys, had to be opened by force.

Upon the demolition of the Bastille the keys were presented to him.

The joint was thus suspended between the two chairs, and two keys of iron, called " fishes," fitting the side channels of the rails, were driven in on each side between the chairs and the rails.

The keys which hold the rail in the chairs are usually of oak and are placed outside the rails; the inside position has also been employed, but has the disadvantage of detracting from the elasticity of the road since the weight of a passing train presses the rails up against a rigid mass of metal instead of against a slightly yielding block of wood.

The whole derrick is set up by keys, no mortices or tenons being used, and thus the complete rig may be readily taken down and set up on a new site.

The Florida Keys, a chain of islands extending in a general south-westerly direction from Biscayne Bay, are included in the state boundaries, and the city of Key West, on an island of the same name, is the seat of justice of Monroe county.