(n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.
(n.) An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
(n.) That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
(n.) A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.
(n.) That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position.
(n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
(n.) The last board of a floor when laid down.
(n.) A keystone.
(n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
(n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
(n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.
(n.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
(n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
(n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote.
(n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
(v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
Example Sentences:
(1) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(2) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(3) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(4) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(5) The key warning from the Fed chair A summary of Bernanke's hearing Earlier... MPs in London quizzed the Bank of England on Libor.
(6) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(7) It is suggested that the low-density lipoprotein receptors in human fetal liver may play a key role in the regulation of the serum cholesterol levels during gestation.
(8) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
(9) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(10) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(11) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(12) Acetylcholinesterase is a key enzyme in cholinergic neurotransmission for hydrolyzing acetylcholine and has been shown to possess arylacylamidase activity in addition to esterase activity.
(13) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(14) Four goals, four assists, and constant movement have been a key part of the team’s success.
(15) Mechanosensitive ion channels may play a key role in transducing vascular smooth muscle (VSM) stretch into active force development.
(16) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(17) Key therapeutic questions are whether beta-lactams can safely replace aminoglycosides for the treatment of gram-negative pneumonia, and whether monotherapy or aminoglycoside and beta-lactam combination antibiotic treatment is superior.
(18) Teaching procedures then establish and build these key components to fluency.
(19) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(20) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
Ney
Definition:
(n.) A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.
(n.) Anything designed or fitted to entrap or catch; a snare; any device for catching and holding.
(n.) Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.
(n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temperature adjustment of INFRARED (NEY Co.) is to use Powerlevel, and of BEAMWERDER (YOSHIDA Co.) is adjusting the height of the turn table.
(2) The results indicated that gold alloys responded slightly better than Ney 76 alloy, but similar to Albacast alloy with adequate correlation between the four criteria evaluated.
(3) The proposed clasp corresponds to two Ney type I clasps acting on one tooth.
(4) For those not familiar with the Big-Phil-Little-Ney dynamic in the flesh, Brazil’s first press conference on the eve of the tournament was intriguing, so gurglingly affectionate are the pair of them in public.
(5) (2) The Ney G-3 as-welded samples had no ductility, but heat treating greatly increased their yield stress.
(6) As well as announcing the funding, Eric Pickles , the communities secretary, on Thursday said the commissioners who would take over the running of crisis-hit Rotherham council were Sir Derek Myers, Stella Manzie, Malcolm Newsam, Mary Ney and Julie Kenny.
(7) The lead Labour member on the Metropolitan Police Authority, Joanne McCart ney, tonight wrote to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, asking for details of senior officers whose voicemail may have been intercepted by Mulcaire.
(8) The authors remind the original principles having led Akers, Roach and Ney in the conception of their "retentive complexes" and analyse the main biomechanical concepts included in their propositions.
(9) As a congressional aide in the late 1990s to former Ohio congressman Bob Ney, he brought an unloaded gun into a House of Representatives building on Capitol Hill.
(10) The alloy Ney Cast III is superior in performance to the other low golds and approximately equivalent to the high-gold alloy Firmilay.
(11) The authors describe the different "retentive complexes" proposed by the Akers, Roach and Ney schools and analyse their biomechanical validity.
(12) Speaker Ryan is giving a green light to congressional corruption.” The OCE was created in March 2008 after the cases of former Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a Republican from California, who served more than seven years in prison on bribery and other charges; as well as cases involving former Representative Bob Ney, a Republican from Ohio, who was charged in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and pleaded guilty to corruption charges, and former Representative William Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana, convicted on corruption in a separate case.
(13) In curating the collective, co-producers Miles Jay and Mina Girgis sought to highlight the unique timbres of these instruments, while also surrounding them with complementary sounds from their respective traditions, including the Ethiopian saxophone, Egyptian ney, oud, and violin, and the bass guitar.
(14) (5) The Ney B-2 as-welded specimens produced satisfactory joints which did not benefit from heat treatment.
(15) Myers will be lead commissioner and be paid £800 a day; Manzie will have the title of managing director commissioner, with a salary of £160,000; Newsam will be children’s social care commissioner; and Ney and Kenny will be supporting commissioners.
(16) A 5-year clinical comparison between silver palladium alloys (Albacast and Ney 76) and gold alloy (Firmilay) was conducted.