The difference between Clavis and Key

When used as nouns, clavis means a roman key, whereas key means an object designed to open and close a lock.


Key is also verb with the meaning: to fit (a lock) with a key.

Key is also adjective with the meaning: indispensable, supremely important.

check bellow for the other definitions of Clavis and Key

  1. Clavis as a noun (archaeology):

    A Roman key.

  2. Clavis as a noun:

    A device for restraint of the hands.

  3. Clavis as a noun:

    A glossary.

  4. Clavis as a noun (biology):

    A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

  1. Key as a noun:

    An object designed to open and close a lock.

  2. Key as a noun:

    An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.

  3. Key as a noun:

    A crucial step or requirement.

    Examples:

    "The key to solving this problem is persistence."

    "the key to winning a game"

  4. Key as a noun:

    A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.

    Examples:

    "The key says that ''A'' stands for the accounting department."

  5. Key as a noun:

    A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.

    Examples:

    "Some students cheated by using the answer key."

  6. Key as a noun (computing):

    One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

    Examples:

    "Press the Escape key."

  7. Key as a noun (music):

    One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.

  8. Key as a noun (music):

    One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.

  9. Key as a noun (music):

    A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.

    Examples:

    "the key of B-flat major"

  10. Key as a noun (figurative):

    The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

  11. Key as a noun (botany):

    An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.

  12. Key as a noun (historical):

    A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.

  13. Key as a noun (cryptography):

    A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

  14. Key as a noun (internet):

    A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

  15. Key as a noun (databases):

    In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

  16. Key as a noun (computing):

    A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.

  17. Key as a noun (basketball):

    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.

    Examples:

    "He shoots from the top of the key."

  18. Key as a noun (biology):

    A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

  19. Key as a noun (architecture):

    A piece of wood used as a wedge.

  20. Key as a noun (architecture):

    The last board of a floor when laid down.

  21. Key as a noun (masonry):

    A keystone.

  22. Key as a noun:

    That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

  23. Key as a noun (rail transport):

    A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.

  24. Key as a noun:

    The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.

    Examples:

    "The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint."

  25. Key as a noun (cartomancy):

    The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.

  26. Key as a noun (print and film):

    The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.

  27. Key as a noun (computer graphics, television):

    A color to be masked or made transparent.

  1. Key as an adjective:

    Indispensable, supremely important.

    Examples:

    "He is the key player on his soccer team."

  2. Key as an adjective:

    Important, salient.

    Examples:

    "She makes several key points."

  1. Key as a verb:

    To fit (a lock) with a key.

  2. Key as a verb:

    To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.

  3. Key as a verb:

    To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.

  4. Key as a verb ([[telegraphy]] and [[radio telegraphy]]):

    To depress (a telegraph key).

  5. Key as a verb (radio):

    To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).

  6. Key as a verb (computing):

    (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.

    Examples:

    "Our instructor told us to ''key in our user IDs."

  7. Key as a verb (colloquial):

    To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.

    Examples:

    "He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot."

  8. Key as a verb:

    To link (as one might do with a key or legend).

  9. Key as a verb (intransitive, biology, chiefly, taxonomy):

    To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.

  10. Key as a verb:

    To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Francis"

  1. Key as a noun:

    One of a string of small islands.

    Examples:

    "the Florida Keys"

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  1. Key as a noun (slang):

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