Cay vs. Key

Caynoun

A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

Caynoun

See Key, a ledge.

Caynoun

a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

Cay

A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef).

Keynoun

An object designed to open and close a lock.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

A crucial step or requirement.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.

Keynoun

(music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.

Keynoun

(music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.

Keynoun

(figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

Keynoun

(basketball) 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.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.

Keynoun

(architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.

Keynoun

(masonry) A keystone.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

(cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

A color to be masked or made transparent.

Keynoun

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Keynoun

One of a string of small islands.

Keynoun

(slang) nodot=1 though this is more commonly shortened to kay.

Keyadjective

Indispensable, supremely important.

Keyadjective

Important, salient.

Keyverb

To fit (a lock) with a key.

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

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

Keynoun

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.

Keynoun

A small device which is inserted into a mechanism and turned like a key to fasten, adjust, or wind it; as, a watch key; a bed key; the winding key for a clock, etc.

Keynoun

One of a set of small movable parts on an instrument or machine which, by being depressed, serves as the means of operating it; the complete set of keys is usually called the keyboard; as, the keys of a piano, an organ, an accordion, a computer keyboard, or of a typewriter. The keys may operate parts of the instrument by a mechanical action, as on a piano, or by closing an electrical circuit, as on a computer keyboard. See also senses 12 and 13.

Keynoun

A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation.

Keynoun

That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.

Keynoun

A piece of wood used as a wedge.

Keynoun

A keystone.

Keynoun

A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.

Keynoun

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

Keynoun

A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.

Keynoun

Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

Keynoun

A metallic lever by which the circuit of the sending or transmitting part of a station equipment may be easily and rapidly opened and closed; as, a telegraph key.

Keynoun

any device for closing or opening an electric circuit, especially as part of a keyboard, as that used at a computer terminal or teletype terminal.

Keynoun

A simplified version or analysis which accompanies something as a clue to its explanation, a book or table containing the solutions to problems, ciphers, allegories, or the like;

Keynoun

A word or other combination of symbols which serves as an index identifying and pointing to a particular record, file, or location which can be retrieved and displayed by a computer program; as, a database using multi-word keys. When the key is a word, it is also called a keyword.

Keyverb

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

Keyverb

To enter (text, data) using keys, especially those on a keyboard; to keyboard; as, to key the data in by hand.

Keyverb

To adjust so as to be maximally effective in a particular situation; - of actions, plans, or speech; as, to key one's campaign speech to each local audience.

Keyverb

To furnish with a key or keys.

Keyadjective

Essential; most important; as, the key fact in the inquiry; the president was the key player inthe negotiations.

Keynoun

metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

Keynoun

something crucial for explaining;

Keynoun

pitch of the voice;

Keynoun

any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

Keynoun

a kilogram of a narcotic drug;

Keynoun

a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

Keynoun

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)

Keynoun

a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

Keynoun

(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;

Keynoun

a list of answers to a test;

Keynoun

a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

Keynoun

a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access;

Keynoun

mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

Keynoun

the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

Keynoun

a lever that actuates a mechanism when depressed

Keyverb

identify as in botany or biology, for example

Keyverb

provide with a key;

Keyverb

vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key;

Keyverb

regulate the musical pitch of

Keyverb

harmonize with or adjust to;

Keyadjective

serving as an essential component;

Keyadjective

effective; producing a desired effect;