Key vs. Island
Difference Between Key and Island
Keynoun
A notched and grooved, usually metal implement that is turned to open or close a lock.
Islandnoun
Abbr. Isl. or Is. or I. A landmass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water.
Keynoun
A similar implement or an electronic device used for opening, winding, or starting something
the key of a wind-up alarm clock.the new car's electronic key.Islandnoun
An unattached kitchen counter providing easy access from all sides.
Keynoun
A device, such as a wedge or pin, inserted to lock together mechanical or structural parts.
Islandnoun
A raised curbed area, often used to delineate rows of parking spaces or lanes of traffic.
Keynoun
A keycard.
Islandnoun
The superstructure of a ship, especially an aircraft carrier.
Keynoun
A determining factor in accomplishing or achieving something
One key to the store's success has been consistent customer service.Islandnoun
(Anatomy) A cluster of cells differing in structure or function from the cells constituting the surrounding tissue.
Keynoun
Something that provides access to or understanding of something else
The key to the mystery was a drug store receipt.Islandverb
To make into or as if into an island; insulate
a secluded mansion, islanded by shrubbery and fences.Keynoun
A set of answers to a test.
Islandnoun
A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
Keynoun
A table, gloss, or cipher containing correspondences, as for decoding or interpreting something.
Islandnoun
An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment)an island of colour on a butterfly's wingKeynoun
(Computers) A number used by a cryptographic algorithm to encrypt or decrypt data.
Islandnoun
A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
Keynoun
(Architecture) The keystone in the crown of an arch.
Islandnoun
A traffic island.
the island in the middle of a roundaboutKeynoun
A button or lever that is depressed to operate a machine.
Islandnoun
(government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
Keynoun
A button that is depressed to cause a corresponding character or function to be typed or executed by a typewriter or to be accepted as input by a computer.
Islandnoun
(grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
Keynoun
(Music) A button or lever that is depressed with the finger to produce or modulate the sound of an instrument, such as a clarinet or piano.
Islandverb
(transitive) To surround with water; make into an island.
Keynoun
A tonal system consisting of seven tones in fixed relationship to a tonic, having a characteristic key signature and being the structural foundation of the bulk of Western music; tonality.
Islandverb
(transitive) To set, dot (as if) with islands.
Keynoun
The principal tonality of a work
an etude in the key of E.Islandverb
(transitive) To isolate.
Keynoun
The pitch of a voice or other sound.
Islandnoun
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
Keynoun
A characteristic tone or level of intensity, as of a speech or sales campaign. Often used in combination
high-key.low-key.Islandnoun
a zone or area resembling an island
Keynoun
(Botany) A samara.
Keynoun
An outline of the distinguishing characteristics of a group of organisms, used as a guide in taxonomic identification.
Keynoun
(Basketball) An area at each end of the court between the baseline and the foul line and including the jump-ball circle at the foul line
a jump shot from the top of the key.Keynoun
The act of replacing portions of a video or photograph containing a preselected color with material from a separate image, as by chroma key.
Keynoun
A low offshore island or reef, especially in the Gulf of Mexico; a cay.
Keynoun
A kilogram of marijuana, cocaine, or heroin.
Keyadjective
Of crucial importance; significant
key decisions.the key element of the thesis.Keyverb
To lock with a key.
Keyverb
To be the determining or crucial factor in
a double that keyed a three-run rally in the fifth inning.Keyverb
(Architecture) To furnish (an arch) with a keystone.
Keyverb
(Music) To regulate the pitch of.
Keyverb
To bring into harmony; adjust or adapt
"achievement tests that are more clearly keyed to what students are held responsible for in high school" (New York Times).Keyverb
To cause to pay attention to
school officials who were keyed into the dietary needs of students.Keyverb
To supply with a key of correspondences or with corresponding references
keyed the pages in the edited book to illustrations in the manuscript.Keyverb
To operate (a device), as for typesetting, by means of a keyboard.
Keyverb
To enter (data) into a computer by means of a keyboard.
Keyverb
To identify (a biological specimen).
Keyverb
To vandalize or mar by scratching with a key
Vandals keyed the cars left in the parking garage.Keyverb
To produce, replace, or include by chroma key.
Keyverb
To pay close attention; focus
improved service by keying on customer complaints.keyed into the main points of the lecture.Keyverb
(Sports) To watch or cover an opposing player closely in an effort to limit the player's effectiveness. Used with on
"[She] still carries the burden of scoring ... even though opponents key on her throughout every game" (Josh Barr).Keyverb
To replace portions of a video or photograph containing a preselected color with material from a separate image, as by chroma key.
Keynoun
An object designed to open and close a lock.
Keynoun
An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
Keynoun
A crucial step or requirement.
The key to solving this problem is persistence.the key to winning a gameKeynoun
A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
The key says that A stands for the accounting department.Keynoun
A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
Some students cheated by using the answer key.Keynoun
(computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
Press the Escape key.Keynoun
(music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
Keynoun
(music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
Keynoun
(music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
the key of B-flat majorKeynoun
(figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
Keynoun
(botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
Keynoun
(historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
Keynoun
(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
Keynoun
(internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
Keynoun
(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
Keynoun
(computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
Keynoun
(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
He shoots from the top of the key.Keynoun
(biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
Keynoun
(architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
Keynoun
(architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
Keynoun
(masonry) A keystone.
Keynoun
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
Keynoun
(rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
Keynoun
The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.Keynoun
(cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
Keynoun
(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
Keynoun
A color to be masked or made transparent.
Keynoun
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Keynoun
One of a string of small islands.
the Florida KeysKeynoun
(slang) nodot=1 though this is more commonly shortened to kay.
Keyadjective
Indispensable, supremely important.
He is the key player on his soccer team.Keyadjective
Important, salient.
She makes several key points.Keyverb
To fit (a lock) with a key.
Keyverb
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
Keyverb
To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
Keyverb
(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
Keyverb
(radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
Keyverb
(computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.Keyverb
(colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.Keyverb
To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
Keyverb
To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
Keyverb
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
Keynoun
metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
Keynoun
something crucial for explaining;
the key to development is economic integrationKeynoun
pitch of the voice;
he spoke in a low keyKeynoun
any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
Keynoun
a kilogram of a narcotic drug;
they were carrying two keys of heroinKeynoun
a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
Keynoun
United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
Keynoun
a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
Keynoun
(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court;
he hit a jump shot from the top of the keyhe dominates play in the paintKeynoun
a list of answers to a test;
some students had stolen the key to the final examKeynoun
a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
Keynoun
a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access;
a safe-deposit box usually requires two keys to open itKeynoun
mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
Keynoun
the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
Keynoun
a lever that actuates a mechanism when depressed
Keyverb
identify as in botany or biology, for example
Keyverb
provide with a key;
We were keyed after the locks were changed in the buildingKeyverb
vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key;
His new Mercedes was keyed last night in the parking lotKeyverb
regulate the musical pitch of
Keyverb
harmonize with or adjust to;
key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitudeKeyadjective
serving as an essential component;
a cardinal rulethe central cause of the probleman example that was fundamental to the argumentcomputers are fundamental to modern industrial structureKeyadjective
effective; producing a desired effect;
the operative word
