Synonyms of the word

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

achene

• n. (botany) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.

attorney

• n. (US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
• n. (UK 19th century and earlier) One such who practised in the courts of the common law (cf solicitor, proctor).
• n. (Britain, 20th century and later, rare, usually pejorative) A solicitor.
• n. (obsolete outside set phrases) An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
• n. (Philippines) A title given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do…

cardinal

• adj. Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
• adj. (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
• adj. Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal…
• adj. Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).
• n. A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal…
• n. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
• n. An official in the Catholic Church, ranking only below the Pope and the patriarchs. (See Wikipedia article…
• n. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
• n. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals)…
• n. A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
• n. (historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
• n. (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
• n. A freshwater fish, the cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi).

cay

• n. A small, low island largely made of sand or coral.

central

• adj. Being in the centre.
• adj. Being the most important.
• adj. Having or containing the centre of something.
• adj. Being very important, or key to something.
• adj. (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

chord

• n. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
• n. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
• n. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
• n. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction…
• n. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed…
• n. The string of a musical instrument.
• n. (anatomy) A cord.
• n. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
• v. (transitive) To write chords for.
• v. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
• v. (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

describe

• v. (transitive) To represent in words.
• v. (transitive) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
• v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly…
• v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

explanation

• n. The act or process of explaining.
• n. Something that explains, makes understandable.
• n. (euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.

fundamental

• n. (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork…
• n. (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
• n. (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
• adj. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
• adj. Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

harmonise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of harmonize.

harmonize

• v. (intransitive) To be in harmonious agreement.
• v. (intransitive, music) To play or sing in harmony.
• v. (transitive) To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible.
• v. (transitive) To provide the harmony for a melody.

headstone

• n. A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.

identify

• v. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
• v. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
• v. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
• v. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
• v. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
• v. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of…

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

keystone

• n. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
• n. Something on which other things depend for support.
• n. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
• v. (transitive) To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes…

kilo

• n. Clipping of kilogram.
• n. The letter K in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

kilogram

• n. In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one liter of…
• n. (proscribed) Hence, the unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.

lawyer

• n. A professional person qualified (as by a law degree and/or bar exam) and authorized to practice law, i…
• n. By extension, a legal layman who argues points of law.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To practice law.
• v. (intransitive) To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
• v. (intransitive) To make legalistic arguments.
• v. (informal, transitive) To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

lever

• n. (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
• n. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which…
• n. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
• n. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
• n. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
• v. (transitive) To move with a lever.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
• v. (chiefly Britain, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
• adv. (obsolete) Rather.
• n. (rare) A levee.

list

• n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
• n. Material used for cloth selvage.
• n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
• n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
• n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
• n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
• n. (obsolete) A stripe.
• n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
• n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
• n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
• n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
• v. To create or recite a list.
• v. To place in listings.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
• v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
• v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
• v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
• v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
• v. To plough and plant with a lister.
• v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
• n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
• v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
• n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
• n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
• v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
• v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
• v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
• n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

listing

• adj. Asking, as a price of real estate.
• v. present participle of list.
• n. The action of the verb to list.
• n. An entry in a list or directory.
• n. (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
• n. A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing.

name

• n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
• n. Reputation.
• n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
• n. A person (or legal person).
• n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
• n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
• n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
• v. (transitive) To give a name to.
• v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
• v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
• v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
• v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
• n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

operative

• adj. Effectual or important.
• adj. Functional, in working order.
• adj. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
• adj. Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
• adj. Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations.
• n. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
• n. A spy, secret agent, or detective.
• n. A participant in an operation.

paint

• n. A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds…
• n. (in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting…
• n. (basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.
• n. (uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.
• n. (poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).
• n. (computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.
• n. Makeup.
• v. (transitive) To apply paint to.
• v. (transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.
• v. (transitive) To create (an image) with paints.
• v. (intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.
• v. (transitive, computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.
• v. (intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.
• v. (transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

poet

• n. A person who writes poems.

primal

• adj. Being the first in time, or history.
• adj. Being of greatest importance; primary.
• adj. (meat trade) Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior…
• n. primal cut (of meat).

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

reconcile

• v. To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
• v. To make things compatible or consistent.
• v. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

samara

• n. The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

significant

• adj. Signifying something; carrying meaning.
• adj. Having a covert or hidden meaning.
• adj. Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
• adj. Reasonably large in number or amount.
• adj. (statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and…
• n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.

space

• n. (heading) Of time.
• n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
• n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
• v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
• v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
• v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

tonality

• n. (music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
• n. (music) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
• n. (music) The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.
• n. The interrelation of the tones in a painting.

vandalise

• v. To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.

vandalize

• v. US, Canada, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.

winder

• n. A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.
• n. A spool around which something is wound.
• n. A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism.
• n. One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).
• n. (slang) A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
• v. To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
• n. Eye dialect spelling of window.