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- English Word Key Definition 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. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.
- English Word Key Definition That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.
- English Word Key Definition A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- English Word Key Definition The last board of a floor when laid down.
- English Word Key Definition A keystone.
- English Word Key Definition That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- English Word Key Definition A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
- English Word Key Definition A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.
- English Word Key Definition An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
- English Word Key Definition 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.
- English Word Key Definition The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
- English Word Key Definition Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- English Word Key Definition To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- English Word Key tone Definition See Keynote.
- English Word Key-cold Definition Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
- English Word Keyage Definition Wharfage; quayage.
- English Word Keyboard Definition The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
- English Word Keyed Definition Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.
- English Word Keyhole Definition A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
- English Word Keyhole Definition A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
- English Word Keyhole Definition a mortise for a key or cotter.
- English Word Keying Definition of Key
- English Word Keynote Definition The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.
- English Word Keynote Definition The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
- English Word Keyseat Definition To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.
- English Word Keystone Definition The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch.
- English Word Keyway Definition See Key way, under Key.
- English Word Khaliff Definition See Caliph.
- English Word Khamsin Definition A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
- English Word Khamsin Definition Same as Kamsin.