The Definition–definite article | 1. | (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house. |
| 2. | (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West. |
| 3. | (used with or as part of a title)
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: the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith. |
| 4. | (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time. |
| 5. | (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped. |
| 6. | (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends. |
| 7. | (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
| 8. | (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way. |
| 9. | (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties. |
| 10. | (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night? |
| 11. | enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave. |
| 12. | (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound. |
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Florida Definition–noun | 1. | a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 9,739,992. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla. |
| 2. | Straits of. Also called Florida Straits, Florida Strait. an ocean passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. |
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Key Definition–noun | 1. | a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt. |
| 2. | any of various devices resembling or functioning as a key: the key of a clock. |
| 4. | something that affords a means of access: the key to happiness. |
| 5. | something that secures or controls entrance to a place: Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean. |
| 6. | something that affords a means of clarifying a problem. |
| 7. | a book, pamphlet, or other text containing the solutions or translations of material given elsewhere, as testing exercises. |
| 8. | a systematic explanation of abbreviations, symbols, etc., used in a dictionary, map, etc.: pronunciation key. Compare legend (def. 4). |
| 9. | the system, method, pattern, etc., used to decode or decipher a cryptogram, as a code book, machine setting, or key word. |
| 10. | one of a set of marked parts, designated areas, or levers pressed in operating a typewriter, computer terminal, calculator, etc. |
| 11. | a manually operated lever for opening and closing an e
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| 12. | Music. | a. | (in a keyboard instrument) one of the levers that when depressed by the performer sets in motion the playing mechanism. |
| b. | (on a woodwind instrument) a metal lever that opens and closes a vent. |
| c. | the relationship perceived between all tones in a given unit of music and a single tone or a keynote; tonality. |
| d. | the principal tonality of a composition: a symphony in the key
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| e. | the keynote or tonic of a scale. |
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| 13. | tone or pitch, as of voice: to speak in a high key. |
| 14. | mood or characteristic style, as of expression or thought: He writes in a melancholy key. |
| 15. | degree of intensity, as of feeling or action. |
| 16. | a pin, bolt, wedge, or other piece inserted in a hole or space to lock or hold parts of a mechanism or structure together; a cotter. |
| 17. | a small piece of steel fitting into matching slots of a hub of a wheel or the like and the shaft on which the wheel is mounted so that torque is transmitted from one to the other. |
| 18. | a contrivance for grasping and turning a bolt, nut, etc. |
| 19. | Computers. a field or group of characters within a record that identifies the record, establishing its position among sorted records, and/or provides information about its contents. |
| 20. | (in a series of advertisements or announcements soliciting replies) a unique code inserted for each medium used, to determine the relative effectiveness of the media. |
| 21. | Electricity. | a. | a device for opening and closing electrical contacts. |
| b. | a hand-operated switching device ordinarily formed of concealed spring contacts with an exposed handle or push button, capable of switching one or more parts of a circuit. |
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| 22. | Biology. a systematic tabular classification of the significant characteristics of the members of a group of organisms to facilitate identification and comparison. |
| 24. | Architecture. (in a ribbed vault) a stone, as a boss, at the intersection of two or more ribs. |
| 25. | Masonry, Carpentry. a wedge, as for tightening a joint or splitting
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a stone or timber. |
| 26. | Carpentry. a small piece of wood set into a timber across the grain to prevent warping. |
| 27. | Building Trades. any grooving or roughness applied to a surface to improve its bond with another surface. |
| 29. | Photography. the dominant tonal value of a picture, a high-key picture having light tonal values and minimal contrast and a low-key picture being generally dark with minimal contrast. |
| 30. | Painting. the tonal value and intensity of a color or range of colors: Rembrandt's colors are characterized by their low key. |
| 32. | (initial capital letter ) a member of the House of Keys. |
| 33. | keys, spiritual authority. |
–adjective | 34. | chief; major; important; essential; fundamental; pivotal: a key person in the company; key industries. |
–verb (used with object) | 35. | to regulate or adjust (actions, thoughts, speech, etc.) to a particular state or activity; bring into conformity: to key one's speech to the intellectual level of the audience. |
| 36. | Music. to regulate the key or pitch of. |
| 37. | Painting. | a. | to paint (a picture) in a given key. |
| b. | to adjust the colors in (a painting) to a particular hue: He keyed the painting to brown. |
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| 38. | to fasten, secure, or adjust with a key, wedge, or the like, as parts of a mechanism. |
| 39. | to provide with a key. |
| 40. | (in the layout of newspapers, magazines, etc.) to identify, through signs or symbols, the positions of illustrations or pieces of copy in a dummy. |
| 41. | to lock with or as if with a key. |
| 42. | Masonry. to provide (an arch or vault) with a keystone. |
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—Verb phrases| 46. | key in, Computers. keyboard (def. 4). |
| 47. | key on, | a. | Football. to watch the position and movements of an opponent in order to anticipate a play: The defensive backs keyed on the star receiver. |
| b. | Also, key in on. to single out as of prime importance or interest; be intent on or obsessed with: a company that is keyed in on growth. |
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| 48. | key up, | a. | to bring to a particular degree of intensity of feeling, excitement, energy, nervousness, agitation, etc.: keyed up over the impending test. |
| b. | to raise (a piece of masonry) by the insertion of a wedge or wedges. |
| c. | to raise (the haunches of an arch) by the insertion of a voussoir. |
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—Idiom| 49. | power of the keys, the authority of a pope in ecclesiastical matters, vested in him as successor of St. Peter. |
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