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We think the answer is "KEY" which means:
- noun
- • Metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- • 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)
- • Something crucial for explaining
- • Pitch of the voice
- • Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- • A kilogram of a narcotic drug
- • A winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- • A coral reef off the southern coast of florida
- • (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
- • A list of answers to a test
- • A list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- • A generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- • Mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- • The central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- • A lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed adjective satellite
- • Serving as an essential component verb
- • Identify as in botany or biology, for example
- • Provide with a key
- • Vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- • Regulate the musical pitch of
- • Harmonize with or adjust to adjective
- • Indispensable, supremely important.
- • Important, salient.
An example sentence would be:
- • "I can't find my house key."
- • "She pressed the key on the keyboard."
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