[{"word":"keys","phonetic":"/kiːz/","phonetics":[{"text":"/kiːz/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"An object designed to open and close a lock.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A crucial step or requirement.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The key to solving this problem is persistence."},{"definition":"A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The key says that A stands for the accounting department."},{"definition":"A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The lowest note of a scale; keynote.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A password restricting access to an IRC channel.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A piece of wood used as a wedge.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The last board of a floor when laid down.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A keystone.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A color to be masked or made transparent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To fit (a lock) with a key.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot."},{"definition":"To link (as one might do with a key or legend).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To attune to; to set at; to pitch.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"One of a string of small islands.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"the Florida Keys"}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. 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