All key synonyms
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K k noun key
- blueprint β A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- core β The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips.
- indicator β a person or thing that indicates.
- code β A code is a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done.
- means β to have in mind as one's purpose or intention; intend: I meant to compliment you on your work. Synonyms: contemplate.
- sign β a token; indication.
- clue β A clue to a problem or mystery is something that helps you to find the answer to it.
- passport β an official document issued by the government of a country to one of its citizens and, varying from country to country, authorizing travel to foreign countries and authenticating the bearer's identity, citizenship, right to protection while abroad, and right to reenter his or her native country.
- ticket β a slip, usually of paper or cardboard, serving as evidence that the holder has paid a fare or admission or is entitled to some service, right, or the like: a railroad ticket; a theater ticket.
- password β a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- guide β to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
- screw β a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- skeleton β Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- opener β a person or thing that opens.
- latchkey β a key for releasing a latch or springlock, especially on an outer door.
- passkey β master key.
- index β (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- interpretation β the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- lead β to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
- nexus β a means of connection; tie; link.
- pointer β a person or thing that points.
- earmark β any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic: The mayor's statement had all the earmarks of dirty politics.
- crux β The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
- cue β In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
- cipher β A cipher is a secret system of writing that you use to send messages.
- nucleus β a central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core: A few faithful friends formed the nucleus of the club.
- pivot β a pin, point, or short shaft on the end of which something rests and turns, or upon and about which something rotates or oscillates.
- lever β tool for lifting
- translation β the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- root β Elihu [el-uh-hyoo] /ΛΙl ΙΛhyu/ (Show IPA), 1845β1937, U.S. lawyer and statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1912.
- brand β If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- symptom β any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- hinge β a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
- fulcrum β the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body.
- marker β a person or thing that marks.
adjective key
- important β of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- main β chief in size, extent, or importance; principal; leading: the company's main office; the main features of a plan.
- crucial β If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- significant β important; of consequence.
- vital β of or relating to life: vital processes.
- strategic β pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- basic β You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
- fundamental β serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- central β Something that is central is in the middle of a place or area.
- major β Clarence, born 1936, U.S. novelist and poet.
- keynote β Music. the note or tone on which a key or system of tones is founded; the tonic.
- essential β Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
- quintessential β of the pure and essential essence of something: the quintessential Jewish delicatessen.
- decisive β If a fact, action, or event is decisive, it makes it certain that there will be a particular result.
- indispensable β absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.