Meaning

• Noun

  1. An object designed to open and close a lock.
  2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
  3. A crucial step or requirement.
  4. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
  5. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
  6. One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
  7. In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
  8. 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.
  9. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  10. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  11. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  12. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  13. A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
  14. The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
  15. A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
  16. An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
  17. A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
  18. A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  19. A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
  20. In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
  21. A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
  22. 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.
  23. A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
  24. A piece of wood used as a wedge.
  25. The last board of a floor when laid down.
  26. A keystone.
  27. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  28. A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
  29. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
  30. The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
  31. The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
  32. A color to be masked or made transparent.

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