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Definition of Key word
1. Noun. A word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message.
2. Noun. A significant word used in indexing or cataloging.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Key Word
Literary usage of Key word
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1881)
"The key-word given is a ' peculiar ' pronunciation of are. ... [Key-word English,
are. This seems to be a compromise between Bell's half-Scotch, ..."
2. Governmental Action for Social Welfare by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1910)
"Relativity is the key-word to legislative action. Laws must be fitted to the
place, to the time, to the people, and extravagances and over- legislation must ..."
3. Governmental Action for Social Welfare by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1910)
"Relativity is the key-word to legislative action. Laws must be fitted to the
place, to the time, to the people, and extravagances and over- legislation must ..."
4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"One hundred fifty- two publications were retrieved using hormesis as the key word
descriptor; 165 publications were retrieved using the combination of U ..."
5. The Blennerhassett Papers: Embodying the Private Journal of Harmon by William Harrison Safford (1864)
"The difficulty of discovering the key to one of these ciphered letters would be
still further augmented hy ^the writer's shifting his key-word for different ..."
6. Practical Fluency: Classroom Perspectives, Grades K-6by Max Brand, Gayle Brand by Max Brand, Gayle Brand (2006)
"Teacher dictates words for students to write that are related to key word.
Day 2 Students are prompted to write the same key word at the top of a white ..."
7. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"To translate it, the one who receives it writes the key-word above it, and then,
beginning at the left of the square with each key-word letter, ..."
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