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    "word": "key",
    "phonetic": "/ki\u02d0/",
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "An object designed to open and close a lock.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A crucial step or requirement.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The key to solving this problem is persistence."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The key says that A stands for the accounting department."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Some students cheated by using the answer key."
          },
          {
            "definition": "One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Press the Escape key."
          },
          {
            "definition": "In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The lowest note of a scale; keynote.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A password restricting access to an IRC channel.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He shoots from the top of the key."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A piece of wood used as a wedge.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The last board of a floor when laid down.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A keystone.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A color to be masked or made transparent.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To fit (a lock) with a key.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To link (as one might do with a key or legend).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To attune to; to set at; to pitch.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Indispensable, supremely important.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He is the key player on his soccer team."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Important, salient.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "She makes several key points."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "One of a string of small islands.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the Florida Keys"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
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    "word": "key",
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    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.",
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          }
        ],
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        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
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          {
            "definition": "In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 \u00d7 10-34 when expressed in units of kg\u22c5m2\u22c5s\u22121. Symbol: kg",
            "synonyms": [],
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          },
          {
            "definition": "The unit of weight such that a one-kilogram mass is also a one-kilogram weight.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "kg",
          "kilo"
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