key
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key (plural keys)
- 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 the orientation between them.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- the key to solving this problem...
- the key to winning this game
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, most of which generally correspond to a particular letter of the alphabet, numeral, or special symbol.
- Press the Escape key.
- One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
- A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
- The key of B-flat major
- A device used to transmit Morse code.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing): In a database, a field of a relation constrained to be unique.
- (computing): In a database, a field in a record that is used as a search argument (but is not necessarily unique).
- (computing): A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
- (basketball): The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the freethrow line, the freethrow lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- He shoots from the top of the key.
- (also cay) One of a string of small islands.
- "the Florida Keys"
- A small guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a document.
- The key says that A stands for the accounting department.
3 letters in word "key": E K Y.
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