Word: key

Category: key

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Related words: key

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Synonyms: key

companion, friend, colleague, associate, partner, coworker, workmate, pal, crony, mate, chum, buddy, dawg, peeps, familiar, fellow, brother

Translations: key

key in spanish

Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
tono, tecla, clave, llave

key in german

Dictionary:
german
Translations:
tonart, taste, lösung, keil, kilogramm, schlüssel, kilo, grundlegend

key in french

Dictionary:
french
Translations:
légende, touche, clef, kilogramme, ton, cale, tonalité, clé, kilo, coin, fondamental, essentiel

key in italian

Dictionary:
italian
Translations:
tasto, chiave

key in portuguese

Dictionary:
portuguese
Translations:
chave, chaleira

key in dutch

Dictionary:
dutch
Translations:
fundamenteel, kilo, toets, sleutel, toonladder, toonschaal, scala

key in russian

Dictionary:
russian
Translations:
килограмм, вереница, ключ, чека, кнопка, дюбель, определитель, разъяснение, смелость, риф, тон, тональность, клавиш, код, косяк, разгадка

key in norwegian

Dictionary:
norwegian
Translations:
nøkkel, tast

key in swedish

Dictionary:
swedish
Translations:
tangent, nyckel

key in finnish

Dictionary:
finnish
Translations:
perus-, ensisijainen, avain, kilogramma, perusteellinen, nimetä, vaikuttava, kosketin

key in danish

Dictionary:
danish
Translations:
nøgle

key in czech

Dictionary:
czech
Translations:
klíčový, klín, klávesa, klíč, tón, klapka, legenda, tlačítko, tónina

key in polish

Dictionary:
polish
Translations:
klucz, wpust, wysepka, tonacja, kluczowanie, klawisz, kluczyk, legenda, klin

key in hungarian

Dictionary:
hungarian
Translations:
jelmagyarázat, kulcs, megoldások, korallsziget

key in turkish

Dictionary:
turkish
Translations:
kilogram, esaslı, anahtar, açkı

key in greek

Dictionary:
greek
Translations:
κλειδί

key in ukrainian

Dictionary:
ukrainian
Translations:
литавра

key in albanian

Dictionary:
albanian
Translations:
çelës

key in bulgarian

Dictionary:
bulgarian
Translations:
ключ

key in belarusian

Dictionary:
belarusian
Translations:
ключ

key in estonian

Dictionary:
estonian
Translations:
klahv, võti, kentucky, helistik

key in croatian

Dictionary:
croatian
Translations:
tipka, ciljati, dirka, ključnih, klin, šifra, ključ, glavni, ključni, ključne

key in icelandic

Dictionary:
icelandic
Translations:
lykill

key in latin

Dictionary:
latin
Translations:
clavis

key in lithuanian

Dictionary:
lithuanian
Translations:
raktas

key in latvian

Dictionary:
latvian
Translations:
atrisinājums, taustiņš, galvenais, atslēga

key in macedonian

Dictionary:
macedonian
Translations:
клуч

key in romanian

Dictionary:
romanian
Translations:
cheie, fundamental, clapă

key in slovenian

Dictionary:
slovenian
Translations:
ključ

key in slovak

Dictionary:
slovak
Translations:
kľúč, klíčivý, klíč

The meaning and "use of": key

adjective
  • of paramount or crucial importance. - she became a key figure in the suffragette movement
noun
  • a small piece of shaped metal with incisions cut to fit the wards of a particular lock, and that is inserted into a lock and turned to open or close it. - In the recovery room and three theatres, the drugs cupboards had been opened using force and the metal cupboards inside had been opened with keys .
  • each of several buttons on a panel for operating a computer, typewriter, or telephone. - The participants initiated the trials by pressing any of the keys on the computer keyboard.
  • a thing that provides a means of gaining access to or understanding something. - the key to Jack's behavior may lie submerged in his unhappy past
  • a group of notes based on a particular note and comprising a scale, regarded as forming the tonal basis of a piece or passage of music. - the key of E minor
  • the dry winged fruit of an ash, maple, or sycamore maple, typically growing in bunches; a samara. - Visitors were not allowed to use pens or pencils but to use other media such as twigs, sycamore keys and string, among other things, with Indian ink to make marks.
  • the part of a first coat of wall plaster that passes between the laths and so secures the rest. - If the surface was primed with DG27, this first coat should be thick enough to cover over all of the key .
  • the keyhole-shaped area marked on the court near each basket, comprising the free-throw circle and the foul line. - The post player nearest the ball is the one to break and set a screen for the guard near the top of the key .
  • a low-lying island or reef, especially in the Caribbean. - Now, you'll appreciate that the Bahamas is an island chain of more than 700 islands and keys .
verb
  • enter or operate on (data) by means of a computer keyboard or telephone keypad. - she keyed in a series of commands
  • fasten (something) in position with a pin, wedge, or bolt. - the coils may be keyed into the slots by fiber wedges
  • roughen (a surface) to help the adhesion of plaster or other material. - Where no keying mix or bonding agent is specified, wet smooth concrete surfaces immediately before plastering.
  • word (an advertisement in a particular periodical), typically by varying the form of the address given, so as to identify the publication generating particular responses. - But the firm makes much of its money from selling advertising space keyed to the words for which its users search.
  • be the crucial factor in achieving. - Ewing keyed a 73–35 advantage on the boards with twenty rebounds
  • vandalize a car by scraping the paint from it with a key. - somebody could key your car and not get punished

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