Englisch > Deutsch | |
key | |
1. Substantiv: | |
2. [1] der Schlüssel | |
3. [2] der Chiffrierschlüssel, Chiffre, Kennzahl, Passwort | |
4. [3] die Taste | |
5. [4] flache Insel (aus Korallen) | |
6. [5] Legende, Zeichenerklärung, Lösungsschlüssel | |
7. [6] Tonart | |
8. [7] ein Keil | |
9. [8] der Schlussstein in einem Rundbogen | |
10. [9] Samara, Flügelfrucht | |
11. [10] Passfeder | |
12. [11] die Klappe an einem Blasinstrument | |
[1] I lost my keys. | |
Ich habe meine Schlüssel verloren. | |
13. Verb: | |
14. [1] etwas keilen, aufkeilen, verkeilen, verdübeln | |
15. [2] etwas verzahnen oder abstimmen | |
16. [3] den Schlussstein setzen | |
17. [4] tippen, eingeben | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
key | |
1. subst. An object designed to open and close a lock. | |
2. subst. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation. | |
3. subst. A crucial step or requirement. | |
The key to solving this problem is persistence. | |
the key to winning a game | |
4. subst. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend. | |
The key says that A stands for the accounting department. | |
5. subst. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test. | |
Some students cheated by using the answer key. | |
6. subst. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters. | |
Press the Escape key. | |
7. subst. (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. | |
8. subst. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind. | |
9. subst. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based. | |
the key of B-flat major | |
10. subst. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. | |
11. subst. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara. | |
12. subst. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code. | |
13. subst. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages. | |
14. subst. (internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel. | |
15. subst. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique). | |
16. subst. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container. | |
17. subst. (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. | |
18. subst. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon. | |
19. subst. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge. | |
20. subst. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down. | |
21. subst. (masonry) A keystone. | |
22. subst. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place. | |
23. subst. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system. | |
24. subst. 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. | |
25. subst. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck. | |
26. subst. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK. | |
27. subst. (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent. | |
28. adj. Indispensable, supremely important. | |
He is the key player on his soccer team. | |
29. adj. Important, salient. | |
She makes several key points. | |
30. v. To fit (a lock) with a key. | |
31. v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them. | |
32. v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. | |
33. v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key). | |
34. v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio). | |
35. v. (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. | |
36. v. (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. | |
37. v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend). | |
38. v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key. | |
39. v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges. | |
40. subst. One of a string of small islands. | |
the Florida Keys | |
41. subst. alternative form of quay. | |
42. subst. (slang) (clipping of kilogram) (though this is more commonly shortened to kay). | |
Deutsch > Englisch | |
Schlüssel | |
1. n-m. a key | |
Der Schlüssel passt nicht. - The key doesn't fit. | |
Diese beiden Schlüssel sind identisch. - These two keys are identical. | |
2. n-m. a bunch of keys; (grammatically singular, used instead of Schlüsselbund, especially with possessive determiner) | |
Ich habe meinen Schlüssel irgendwo vergessen. - 3=I left my keys (= the bunch I usually carry) somewhere. | |
Ich habe einen Einkaufschip am Schlüssel. - I have a trolley token on my bunch of keys. | |
3. n-m. Short for certain compounds, such as Schraubenschlüssel or Notenschlüssel. | |