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Phonetic: "/kiː/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An object designed to open and close a lock.

Definition: An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.

Definition: A crucial step or requirement.

Example: The key to solving this problem is persistence.

Definition: A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.

Example: The key says that A stands for the accounting department.

Definition: A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.

Example: Some students cheated by using the answer key.

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

Example: Press the Escape key.

Definition: In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.

Definition: 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.

Definition: The lowest note of a scale; keynote.

Definition: In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.

Definition: 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.

Definition: In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.

Definition: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

Definition: A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.

Definition: An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.

Definition: A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.

Definition: A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

Definition: A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

Definition: In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

Definition: A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

Definition: 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.

Example: He shoots from the top of the key.

Definition: A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

Definition: A piece of wood used as a wedge.

Definition: The last board of a floor when laid down.

Definition: A keystone.

Definition: That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

Definition: A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.

Definition: The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.

Example: The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.

Definition: The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.

Definition: (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.

Definition: A color to be masked or made transparent.

Phonetic: "/kiː/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To fit (a lock) with a key.

Definition: To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.

Definition: To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.

Definition: (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).

Definition: To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).

Definition: (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.

Example: Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

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

Example: He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.

Definition: To link (as one might do with a key or legend).

Definition: To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.

Definition: To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.

Definition: To attune to; to set at; to pitch.

Definition: To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Phonetic: "/kiː/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Indispensable, supremely important.

Example: He is the key player on his soccer team.

Definition: Important, salient.

Example: She makes several key points.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.