Ley vs. Key
Leynoun
A ley line.
Leyadjective
(agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
Leyadjective
(agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
Leyverb
To lay; to wager.
Leynoun
Law.
Leynoun
See Lye.
Leynoun
Grass or meadow land; a lea.
Leyadjective
Fallow; unseeded.
Leynoun
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
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;
