key
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /kiː/
美 /ki/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
- Alternative form of quay.
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A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
— So starting with ten keys of cocaine and two keys of heroin, Derrick put his plan in motion. Soon every major drug dealer and gang chief from Chicago Avenue to Evanston was in his pocket.
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One of a string of small islands.
— the Florida Keys
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
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A crucial step or requirement.
— The key to solving this problem is persistence.
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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.
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A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
— Some students cheated by using the answer key.
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One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
— Press the Escape key.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- 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.
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A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
— the key of B-flat major
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.; The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.; In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.; 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.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.; In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
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The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
— 2. Queen.[…]Deere Glasse of Ladies Bid him that we whom flaming war doth scortch, Vnder the shaddow of his Sword, may coole us: Require him he advance it ore our heades; Speak't in a womans key: like such a woman As any of us three; weepe ere you faile; lend us a knee; But touch the ground for us no longer time Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off: Tell him if he i'th blood cizd field, lay swolne Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone What you would doe.
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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.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
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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.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
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Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
— radiator key
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- 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 wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
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The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
— The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
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A color to be masked or made transparent.
— You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.
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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.
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A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
— "It just means that one of them here and there will need to play on a small-to-medium forward (instead of Riewoldt) which is fine. Our keys are pretty agile."
动词 v.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
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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.
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
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(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.
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To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
— He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
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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.
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
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To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
— Keying advertisements and counting the number of inquiries received or the number of coupons returned to indicate the "pulling power" of a particular piece of copy or the coverage of a particular advertising medium.
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To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
— To Ethel alone she addressed a stray remark, keyed below the sound of other voices.
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To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
— they Mouldered and keyed the Portico Arches with Pieces of Stone, because Brick was not strong enough
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
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To provide an arch with a keystone.
— The last arch in the permanant ^([sic]) bridge was keyed on March 26, 1850, and a single track was brought into use for goods trains on July 20.
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Clipping of chromakey.
— After keying the background, you’d be left with a transparent background, where you can install anything—from images to videos that blend seamlessly into the main subject of the shot.
形容词 adj.
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Indispensable, supremely important.
— He is the key player on his soccer team.
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Important, salient.
— She makes several key points.
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accelerator key
a golden key can open any door
Allen key
alt key
answer key
arrow key
autokey
barrel key
bedkey
bis key
boss key
bump key
business key
card key
car key
CD key
change key
check key
Chinese keys
chroma-key
chroma key
chuck key
clustering key
Command key
composite key
compound key
content key
control key
Cross Keys
Cuban Keys
culverkey
cursor key
dead key
dichotomous key
disk on key
electronic car key
enter key
escape key
false key
fin key
function key
Greek key
hashkey
hex key
high-key
home key
hot key
hotkey
housekey
identification key
ignition key
I lost my keys
in a major key
in a minor key
in key
I've lost my keys
jiggle key
jiggler key
keyable
key alike
key art
key artwork
key back
keybed
key bed
keybind
key binding
key bit
keyboard
key bolt
keybounce
key bounce
keyboy
key-bugle
key bump
keybutton
keycap
keycard
key catcher
keycatcher
keychain
keyclick
key club
keycode
key-cold
key combo
key currency
key defender
key desk
key down
key drive
key encapsulation mechanism
keyer
key exchange
key finder
keyfob
key forward
keyframe
key frame
key-fruit
key fruit
Key Green
key grip
keyguard
key harp
keyholder
key holder
keyholding
keyhole
key interest rate
key into
keykeeper
key-keeper
Key Largo
keyless
keylet
key light
keylike
keyline
keylock
key log
keylogger
key logger
keylogging
keymaker
keyman
key man risk
keymap
keymapping
keymask
keymaster
key-money
key money
keyness
keynote
key of the door
Key of the Mediterranean
key of the street
keypad
key pair
keypair
keypal
key party
keypath
key performance indicator
key person insurance
key person risk
keyphone
keyplate
keypoint
key press
keypress
keypunch
key rate
keyring
keyscan
key seat
keyseat
keysender
keysending
keyserver
key server
keyset
key set identifier
keysigning
keysmash
keysmith
keys of the kingdom
keyspace
key spoke
key stage
keystone
keystore
keys to the kingdom
keystream
key stretching
keystring
keystrip
keystroke
keyswitch
keytainer
keytap
keytop
key to the city
key to the door
key to the midway
key up
key-value
key visual
keyway
key word
keyword
key-word
keywork
keyworker
key worker
key wrench
latch-key
latchkey
latch key
latch-key child
lock key
lock someone up and throw away the key
lowkey
low-key
low key
maple key
master key
meta key
mid-key
miskey
modifier key
multikey
natural key
nose key
off-key
out of key
parallel key
passkey
personal unblocking key
PF key
piano keys
pipe key
pre-shared key
private key
programmed function key
public key
public key certificate
public key cryptography
railway key
rekey
relative key
return key
rose key
screw key
secret key
serial key
shift key
shortcut key
skate key
slack key
slack-key
soft key
sortkey
split key
spoke key
start key
stream key
subkey
sub-key
Super key
superkey
surrogate key
tenkey
theoretical key
throw away the key
tipsy key
tooth key
tuning key
turn-key
turnkey
under lock and key
unkey
USB key
Walpole Cross Keys
water key
Windows key
wine key
wine-key
Winkey
witkey
Woodruff key
keyed up
key in
key in on
key off
key on
key out
词源
词源 1
From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), from Anglo-Frisian Proto-West Germanic *kaiju, of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kai, koie (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”).
For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
词源 2
Variant of cay, from Spanish cayo, from Taíno cayo (“small island”)
词源 3
Clipping of kilogram or kilo.
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