key

• serving as an essential component
• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
• identify as in botany or biology, for example
• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812
• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
• 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
• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball 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)
• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
• provide with a key
• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
• regulate the musical pitch of
• harmonize with or adjust to
• An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn
• An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism
• That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it
• A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc
• 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 bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning
• An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple
• 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
• Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance
• To fasten or secure firmly
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Indonesia in Nusa Tenggara Timur
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Islamic Republic of Iran in Esfahan
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Islamic Republic of Iran in Mazandaran
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Saint Kitts and Nevis in Saint Peter Basseterre
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Alabama
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Ohio
• Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Texas

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