Jump to user comments
Adjective
- serving as an essential component
- the central cause of the problem
- an example that was fundamental to the argument
- computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
Noun
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- a safe-deposit box usually requires two keys to open it
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- a list of answers to a test
- some students had stolen the key to the final exam
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- he hit a jump shot from the top of the key
- he dominates play in the paint
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- they were carrying two keys of heroin
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- the key to development is economic integration
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
Verb
- harmonize with or adjust to
- key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitude
- regulate the musical pitch of
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- His new Mercedes was keyed last night in the parking lot
- provide with a key
- We were keyed after the locks were changed in the building
- identify as in botany or biology, for example