What is the meaning of KEY. Phrases containing KEY
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Keyed up is slang for agitated, nervous.
Keyholing is British slang for busking outside the front door of a building.
Telegraph instrument
Keyholding a round tripper is Black−American slang for to be witness to an extraordinary event.
, (kee) adj., or n., the best, good. “I gotta say, Sublime is key.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth]
marijuana
Keystone cop is London Cockney rhyming slang for a chop.
, (keed) v., past participle, Drunk or high. “At the rave, we were all keyed.â€Â [Etym., 90’s youth]
Key is slang for essential, emblematic, supreme.Key is American slang for a kilogram of an illicit drug.Key was old slang for the penis.
Keyhole is British slang for the vagina. Keyhole is British slang for to pick a lock.Keyhole is British slang for to busk at the front door of a pub or other building.
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Church Key is slang for a bottle opener.
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A keystone.
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An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
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The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
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A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
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Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune.
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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.
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A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
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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.
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See Key way, under Key.
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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.
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Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
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The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
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To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.
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To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
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That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
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An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
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a mortise for a key or cotter.
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The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
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