key
/ki/ adjective A1- Indispensable, supremely important. · He is the key player on his soccer team.
- Important, salient. · She makes several key points.
Comparative keyer · Superlative keyest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- key down To lower in pitch, level, or intensity; to tone down.
- key in To enter data by keyboarding.
- key into To put (someone) into (a particular state, emotion etc.).
- key off To take something as a controlling input datum.
- key on To anticipate a play by watching and analyzing the moveme...
- key out To remove (something) or make (something) transparent in ...
- key up To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its centering, b...
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He is one of two who have a key of the safe.
I may add that the papers were undoubtedly in the office during working hours on Monday, and that Sir James left for London about three o’clock taking his key with him.
“Who was the other man with a key?”
According to his own account, corroborated only by the word of his wife, he was at home the whole of Monday evening after office hours, and his key has never left the watch-chain upon which it hangs.”
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