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noun
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (context, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (mathematics) Those elements, in the domain of a function, which the function maps to zero.
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noun
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain the orientation between them.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- the to solving this problem...
- the to winning this game
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart.
- The says that A stands for the accounting department.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, most of which generally correspond to a particular character.
- Press the Escape .
- One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
- One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
- the of B-flat major
- A device used to transmit Morse code.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing): In a database, a field of a relation constrained to be unique.
- (computing): In a database, a field in a record that is used as a search argument (but is not necessarily unique).
- (computing): A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
- (basketball): The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the freethrow line, the freethrow lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- He shoots from the top of the .
- (slang): kilogram
verb
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (computing): (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- Our instructor told us to in our user IDs.
- (colloquial) To use a key as a tool of convenience.
- He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
adjective
- Indispensable.
- He is the player for his soccer team.
- He is the witness.
- Important, salient.
- She makes several points
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noun
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- When climbing, it is important to make sure that your knots are both secure and of types that will not weaken the rope.
- (of hair, etc) A tangled clump.
- The young mother was brushing knots from her protesting child's hair.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A closed curve that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- A difficult situation.
- I got into a when I inadvertently insulted the policeman.
- A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- Cedric claimed his beat-up old yacht could make 20 knots, if he would just make a few repairs, but we figured he was pulling our leg.
- Either of two species of small wading birds, the red knot (Calidris canutus) and the great knot (Calidris tenuirostris).
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- When preparing to tell stories at a campfire, I like to set aside a pile of pine logs with lots of knots, since they burn brighter and make dramatic pops and cracks.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- Jeremy had a on his head where he had bumped it on the bedframe.
- (nautical) One nautical mile per hour.
verb (knot, t, ing)
- To form into a knot.
- She knotted the ends of the rope to keep it from unravelling.
- To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- She knotted her brow in concentration as she attempted to unravel the tangled strands.
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verb - (past of, knot)
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noun - A contorted knot in wood.
- A crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
- A lined or crossgrained pattern of ridges or indentations rolled or pressed into a part for grip.
verb - To roll or press a pattern of ridges or indentations into a part for grip.
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