Key is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for KEY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to enter (data) into a computer
• enter or operate on (data) by means of a computer keyboard or telephone keypad
• fasten (something) in position with a pin, wedge, or bolt
• roughen (a surface) to help the adhesion of plaster or other material
• word (an advertisement in a periodical), typically by varying the form of the address given, so as to identify the publication generating particular responses
• vandalize (a car) by scraping its paint with a key.
• be the crucial factor in achieving
• To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• identify as in botany or biology, for example
• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
• regulate the musical pitch of
• harmonize with or adjust to
• enter (text) using a keyboard
NOUN:
• an instrument for locking
• a small piece of shaped metal with incisions cut to fit the wards of a particular lock, which is inserted into a lock and turned to open or close it
• a shaped metal implement for operating a switch in the form of a lock, especially one operating the ignition of a motor vehicle
• an instrument for grasping and turning a screw, peg, or nut, especially one for winding a clock or turning a valve.
• a pin, bolt, or wedge inserted into a hole or between parts so as to lock the parts together.
• each of several buttons on a panel for operating a computer, typewriter, or telephone
• a lever depressed by the finger in playing an instrument such as the organ, piano, flute, or concertina
• a lever operating a mechanical device for making or breaking an electric circuit, for example in telegraphy.
• a thing that provides a means of achieving or understanding something
• an explanatory list of symbols used in a map, table, etc.
• a set of answers to exercises or problems
• a word or system for solving a cipher or code
• the first move in the solution of a chess problem.
• a field in a record which is used to identify that record uniquely.
• a group of notes based on a particular note and comprising a scale, regarded as forming the tonal basis of a piece of music
• the prevailing tone of a piece of writing, situation, etc.
• the prevailing range of tones in a painting
• the dry winged fruit of an ash, maple, or sycamore, typically growing in bunches; a samara.
• the part of a first coat of wall plaster that passes between the laths and so secures the rest.
• the roughness of a surface, helping the adhesion of plaster or other material.
• the keyhole-shaped area marked on the court near each basket
• a low-lying island or reef, especially in the Caribbean.
• device for operating a lock by moving a bolt
• 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.
• An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
• 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.
• 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.
• That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.
• A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• The last board of a floor when laid down.
• A keystone.
• That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
• 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.
• An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
• 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.
• The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
• Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock\'s mechanism can be rotated
• something crucial for explaining
• pitch of the voice
• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
• a kilogram of a narcotic drug
• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
• 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)
• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
• (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
• a list of answers to a test
• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
• the tone or pitch of someone's voice
ADJECTIVE:
• of crucial importance
• serving as an essential component
• of great importance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a key (a device used to turn the bolt in a lock)

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How to use KEY in a sentence

• Lastly, I locked the door and carried the key with me into the house and hung it up on its usual nail in the kitchen.
• I heard the key turn in the lock, and a bolt shot at top and bottom.
• Rising, Victor approached a table in a corner and with a key from his pocket ring unlocked a heavy casket of bronze.
• He stepped inside for the key, locked the shed door and put the key into his coat pocket.
• We fell in with a man who had lived thirteen years at Key West.
• She had resumed her seat after she had hidden the key, but she now rose and went to him.
• There was no stopping then, either, between the door and the table, between key and lock, and hand and weapon.
• This the man opened with a key, and, having passed out, could be heard to turn a lock behind him.
• Advanced test, form Bm and key for high schools and colleges.
• CUMULATIVE TABLE OF KEY NUMBERS COVERING GENERAL DIGEST, KEY NUMBER SYSTEM, VOLUMES 11-17.
• I say you shall sleep under lock and key this night.
• Meanwhile, standing on the other side of the gate, he calmly put the key in his pocket.
• A key to the characters and principal incidents in the tales of Charles Dickens.
• You did that because your life was set in the wrong key.
• Let the slave have the key to the gate of Life Eternal, even if his pathway through this life must be more thickly sown with thorns.
• But what was his amazement to find on trying, that the key-hole which had run upward from an iron key, now ran down toward the bottom of the door.
• Two days after her arrival I directed her to clean the plate and handed her the key of the safe, of which I have reason to believe that she took a squeeze with a piece of dough.
• He slipped in the key, turned it, and, on hinges that were always oiled, silently pushed the door open and stepped across the threshold.
• A rubber band, passing over the end of the key and attached to the base with a tack, acts as a spring to keep the key open.
• A gentle hint was given now and then to take a little lower key.
• The key to understanding Jesus is man, even as Jesus is the key to God.
• The singer makes use of all the scale tones of the major key of E-flat, except the D-natural.
• While I waited in the hall my mate slipped down and locked the door that lets into the area and brought away the key on him.
• At least, the key to learning, reading, was given into her hands.
• It is the key to the records in shelf-list and accession book.

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