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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.

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