Definition of key

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Key (n.) 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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Nur :: Nur (n.) A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey..
Divan :: Divan (n.) In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.
Lackeys :: Lackeys (pl. ) of Lacke.
Vizier :: Vizier (n.) A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.
Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) A squinting eye.
Ateles :: Ateles (n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita..
Key :: Key (n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote..
Keyway :: Keyway (n.) See Key way, under Key..
Padishah :: Padishah (n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia..
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..
Progression :: Progression (n.) A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
Steganophthalmata :: Steganography (n.) The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography..
Outsider :: Outsider (n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside..
Pass :: Pass (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side..
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major..
Pony :: Pony (n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.
Ouarine :: Ouarine (n.) A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.
Toque :: Toque (n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Guenon :: Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet..
Wattlebird :: Wattlebird (n.) The Australian brush turkey.
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