Manic Monday With Mo
for Monday December 31st:
key
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This week's word was suggested by Janna
from The Jannaverse. Thanks, Janna!
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use the word key in a post.
Anyway you want. Just have FUN with it!
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From Dictionary.com
–noun
1.a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
2.any of various devices resembling or functioning as a key: the key of a clock.
3.key card.
4.something that affords a means of access: the key to happiness.
5.something that secures or controls entrance to a place: Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.
6.something that affords a means of clarifying a problem.
7.a book, pamphlet, or other text containing the solutions or translations of material given elsewhere, as testing exercises.
8.a systematic explanation of abbreviations, symbols, etc., used in a dictionary, map, etc.: pronunciation key. Compare legend (def. 4).
9.the system, method, pattern, etc., used to decode or decipher a cryptogram, as a code book, machine setting, or key word.
10.one of a set of marked parts, designated areas, or levers pressed in operating a typewriter, computer terminal, calculator, etc.
11.a manually operated lever for opening and closing an electric circuit, used to produce signals in telegraphy.
12.Music.
a.(in a keyboard instrument) one of the levers that when depressed by the performer sets in motion the playing mechanism.
b.(on a woodwind instrument) a metal lever that opens and closes a vent.
c.the relationship perceived between all tones in a given unit of music and a single tone or a keynote; tonality.
d.the principal tonality of a composition: a symphony in the key of C minor.
e.the keynote or tonic of a scale.
13.tone or pitch, as of voice: to speak in a high key.
14.mood or characteristic style, as of expression or thought: He writes in a melancholy key.
15.degree of intensity, as of feeling or action.
16.a pin, bolt, wedge, or other piece inserted in a hole or space to lock or hold parts of a mechanism or structure together; a cotter.
17.a small piece of steel fitting into matching slots of a hub of a wheel or the like and the shaft on which the wheel is mounted so that torque is transmitted from one to the other.
18.a contrivance for grasping and turning a bolt, nut, etc.
19.Computers. a field or group of characters within a record that identifies the record, establishing its position among sorted records, and/or provides information about its contents.
20.(in a series of advertisements or announcements soliciting replies) a unique code inserted for each medium used, to determine the relative effectiveness of the media.
21.Electricity.
a.a device for opening and closing electrical contacts.
b.a hand-operated switching device ordinarily formed of concealed spring contacts with an exposed handle or push button, capable of switching one or more parts of a circuit.
22.Biology. a systematic tabular classification of the significant characteristics of the members of a group of organisms to facilitate identification and comparison.
23.Masonry. a keystone.
24.Architecture. (in a ribbed vault) a stone, as a boss, at the intersection of two or more ribs.
25.Masonry, Carpentry. a wedge, as for tightening a joint or splitting a stone or timber.
26.Carpentry. a small piece of wood set into a timber across the grain to prevent warping.
27.Building Trades. any grooving or roughness applied to a surface to improve its bond with another surface.
28.Basketball. keyhole (def. 2).
29.Photography. the dominant tonal value of a picture, a high-key picture having light tonal values and minimal contrast and a low-key picture being generally dark with minimal contrast.
30.Painting. the tonal value and intensity of a color or range of colors: Rembrandt's colors are characterized by their low key.
31.Botany. a samara.
32.(initial capital letter) a member of the House of Keys.
33.keys, spiritual authority.
–adjective
34.chief; major; important; essential; fundamental; pivotal: a key person in the company; key industries.
–verb
35.to regulate or adjust (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.) to a particular state or activity; bring into conformity: to key one's speech to the intellectual level of the audience.
36.Music. to regulate the key or pitch of.
37.Painting.
a.to paint (a picture) in a given key.
b.to adjust the colors in (a painting) to a particular hue: He keyed the painting to brown.
38.to fasten, secure, or adjust with a key, wedge, or the like, as parts of a mechanism.
39.to provide with a key.
40.(in the layout of newspapers, magazines, etc.) to identify, through signs or symbols, the positions of illustrations or pieces of copy in a dummy.
41.to lock with or as if with a key.
42.Masonry. to provide (an arch or vault) with a keystone.
43.Computers. keyboard (def. 4).
44.to use a key.
45.Computers. keyboard (def. 4).
—Verb phrases
46.key in, Computers. keyboard (def. 4).
47.key on,
a.Football. to watch the position and movements of an opponent in order to anticipate a play: The defensive backs keyed on the star receiver.
b.Also, key in on. to single out as of prime importance or interest; be intent on or obsessed with: a company that is keyed in on growth.
48.key up,
a.to bring to a particular degree of intensity of feeling, excitement, energy, nervousness, agitation, etc.: keyed up over the impending test.
b.to raise (a piece of masonry) by the insertion of a wedge or wedges.
c.to raise (the haunches of an arch) by the insertion of a voussoir.

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