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key



chave
chave


Definições

inglês > português
key
     1. Adjetivo. indispensável
     2. Adjetivo. importante
     3. Substantivo. chave
     4. Substantivo. segredo
     5. Substantivo. explicação, glossário
     6. Substantivo. tecla
     7. Substantivo. (Música) clave
     8. Substantivo. (Basquetebol) garrafão
     9. Verbo. digitar, teclar
inglês > inglês
key
     1. n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
     2. n. 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. n. A crucial step or requirement.
           The key to solving this problem is persistence.
           the key to winning a game
     4. n. 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. n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
           Some students cheated by using the answer key.
     6. n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
           Press the Escape key.
     7. n. (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. n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
     9. n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
           the key of B-flat major
     10. n. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
     11. n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
     12. n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
     13. n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
     14. n. (internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
     15. n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
     16. n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
     17. n. (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. n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
     19. n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
     20. n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
     21. n. (masonry) A keystone.
     22. n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
     23. n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
     24. n. 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. n. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
     26. n. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
     27. n. (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. n. One of a string of small islands.
           the Florida Keys
     41. n. alternative form of quay.
     42. n. (slang) (clipping of kilogram) (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).
português > inglês
chave
     1. n-f. key (object that opens and closes a lock)
           Chave do portão - Key to the gate
     2. n-f. key (object that is inserted into a device and rotated to activate it)
           Chave do carro - Car key
     3. n-f. any of several tools designed to turn screws, bolts, nuts, etc., especially a spanner
           Chave de fenda/chave de fendas - Screwdriver
     4. n-f. (typography) curly bracket gloss, name of the characters and
           Coloque o valor entre chaves. - Put the value between curly brackets.
     5. n-f. (figurative) key (crucial step, element or requirement)
           Terminar dentro do prazo é a chave para o sucesso. - Finishing within schedule is the key to success.
     6. n-f. (figurative) keys (free access to something)
     7. n-f. (computing) key; password
     8. n-f. (cryptography) key (a string used to encode or decode text)
     9. n-f. (databases) key (value that identifies a row in a table)
     10. n-f. (musical instruments) a key of a wind instrument
     11. n-f. (musical instruments) tuning lever; tuning wrench; hammer (tool used to tune certain stringed instruments)
     12. n-f. winder (key or knob used to wind a clockwork mechanism)
     13. n-f. (electricity) the switch of a circuit breaker
     14. n-f. (puzzles) the clue to an answer
     15. n-f. (sports) group; pool (in a tournament, a set of players or team who play against one another)
     16. n-f. (martial arts) joint lock
     17. n-f. (rail transport) the mechanism that activates a switch
     18. n-f. (architecture) the keystone of a vault
     19. n-f. music, obsolete synonym of clave
     20. adj. key; crucial; indispensable

Pronúncia




Exemplos

What's this key for?
    Para que serve esta chave?
The boy was searching for the key that he had lost.
    O garoto estava procurando pelas chaves perdidas.
Do not play with the key.
    Não brinque com a chave.
I have lost the key.
    Eu perdi a chave.
He played a key role in the movement.
    Ele teve um papel importante no movimento.



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