Key

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An object designed to open and close a lock.

   “We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.”

2. isim 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. isim A crucial step or requirement.

   “The key to solving this problem is persistence.”

4. isim A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.

   “The key says that A stands for the accounting department.”

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

   “Some students cheated by using the answer key.”

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

   “Press the Escape key.”

7. isim In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
8. isim In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
9. isim A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.

   “the key of B-flat major”

10. isim The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
11. isim In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
12. isim In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
13. isim In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
14. isim The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

    “?, William Cowper, Conversation You fall at once into a lower key.”

15. isim A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.

    “Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost.”

16. isim An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
17. isim A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
18. isim A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
19. isim A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

    “if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.”

20. isim In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
21. sıfat Indispensable, supremely important.

    “He is the key player on his soccer team.”

22. sıfat Important, salient.

    “She makes several key points.”

23. fiil To fit (a lock) with a key.
24. fiil To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
25. fiil To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.

    “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.”

26. fiil To depress (a telegraph key).
27. fiil To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
28. fiil (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.”

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

    “He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.”

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

    “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.”