key

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Definizione monolingua


key


Verb

key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)


  1. To fit (a lock) with a key.
  2. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
  3. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
    • 1996 January, Garden Dsign Ideas, second printing, Taunton Press, ISBN 1561580791, page 25,
      So I worked on a tissue-paper copy of the perimeter plan, outlining groupings of plants of the same species and keying them with letters for the species.
    • 2001, Bruce M. Metzger, The Bible in Translation, ISBN 0801022827, page 87,
      The volume closes with thirty pages of ""Notes, critical and explanatory,"" in which Thomson provides seventy-six longer or shorter notes keyed to specific sections of the synopsis.
    • 2002, Karen Bromley, Stretching Students Vocabulary, ISBN 0439288398, page 12,
      Talk about similarities between the words and write them below to the left of the anchor, keying them with a plus sign (+). Talk about the characteristics that set the words apart and list them below the box to the right, keying them with a tilde sign (~).
    • 2007, Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland, and Doris Hall, compilers, The American Directory of Writers Guidelines, 6th (""2007–2008"") edition, ISBN 1884956580, page 757,
      Indicate the comparative value of each heading by keying it with a number in pencil, in the left margin, as follows: […]
  4. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
  5. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
  6. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
    Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.
  7. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
    He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
  8. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
    • 1960, Richard L. Masland, ""Classification of the Epilepsies"", in Epilepsia, volume 1, page 516,
      The American Heart Association has prepared their own guide to classification and, keying it with the Standard Nomenclature of Diseases, have done much to encourage a concise yet complete diagnosis.
    • 1976, Nicholas Askounes Ashford, Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury[1], page 19:
      The workmans compensation system rests on incentives (premium payments) that are keyed to the immediate and relatively undeniable nature of injuries; […]
    • 2006, Deborah Blum, Mary Knudson and Robin Marantz Henig, A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers[2], page 63:
      It also features special issues on ""Live Longer, Better, Wiser,"" mens health, womens health, and issues keyed to important ""disease weeks.""
  9. (intransitive) (biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
Noun

key (plural keys)


  1. An object designed to open and close a lock.
  2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
  3. A crucial step or requirement.
    the key to solving this problem...
    the key to winning this game
  4. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
    The key says that A stands for the accounting department.
  5. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
    Some students cheated by using the answer key.
  6. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, most of which generally correspond to a particular character.
    Press the Escape key.
  7. (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.
  8. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
  9. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
    the key of B-flat major
  10. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
  11. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  12. (computing) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
  13. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
  14. (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.
    He shoots from the top of the key.
  15. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
  16. (slang) kilogram
Adjective

key (comparative more key, superlative most key)


  1. Indispensable.
    He is the key player for his soccer team.
    He is the key witness.
    • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, BBC Sport:
      With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.
  2. Important, salient.
    She makes several key points
Adverb

key


  1. (Soranî Kurdish) when

Definizione dizionario key


chiave
  crucial step
  scale of musical notes
  cryptography: piece of information used to encode or decode
  computing: field of a database constrained to be unique
  computing: field in a record used as a search argument
  computing: value uniquely identifying entry in associative array
  important
  indispensable
  device designed to open and close a lock
  An object designed to be able to open (and usually close) a lock.
  In IP security (IPSec), a value used in combination with an algorithm to encrypt or decrypt data. Key settings for IPSec are configurable to provide greater security.
tasto
  part of a piano or musical keyboard
  button on a typewriter or computer keyboard
  In IP security (IPSec), a value used in combination with an algorithm to encrypt or decrypt data. Key settings for IPSec are configurable to provide greater security.
tonalità
essenziale
  indispensable
accordare
adulto
bietta
chiavetta
cifrario
considerevole
consiglio
grave
importante
legenda
notevole
principale
pulsante
ragguardevole
serratura
suggerimento
tono

Altri significati:
  object used to maintain the orientation between two others
  (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  device used to transmit Morse code
  An object designed to open and close a lock.
  (computing): ( '''more usually''' to key in ) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
  Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music.
  (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
  A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
  (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
  A device used to transmit Morse code.
  (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
  Important, salient.
  small island
  fit (a lock) with a key
  A crucial step or requirement.
  To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
  One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, most of which generally correspond to a particular character.
  (computing): In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
  To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
  One of a string of small islands.
  computing: enter (information)
  (computing): A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
  (slang): kilogram
  (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.
  Indispensable.
  To fit (a lock) with a key.
  (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.
  One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
  key (input)
  small guide explaining symbols or terminology
  A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
  An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain the orientation between them.
  (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
  To link (as one might do with a key or legend).

Traduzione key


chiave ,tasto ,tonalità ,essenziale ,accordare

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