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
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Clavis as a noun (archaeology):
A Roman key.
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Clavis as a noun:
A device for restraint of the hands.
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Clavis as a noun:
A glossary.
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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.
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Key as a noun:
An object designed to open and close a lock.
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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.
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Key as a noun:
A crucial step or requirement.
Examples:
"The key to solving this problem is persistence."
"the key to winning a game"
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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."
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Key as a noun:
A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
Examples:
"Some students cheated by using the answer key."
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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."
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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.
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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.
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Key as a noun (music):
A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
Examples:
"the key of B-flat major"
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Key as a noun (figurative):
The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
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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.
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Key as a noun (historical):
A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
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Key as a noun (cryptography):
A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
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Key as a noun (internet):
A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
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Key as a noun (databases):
In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
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Key as a noun (computing):
A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
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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."
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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.
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Key as a noun (architecture):
A piece of wood used as a wedge.
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Key as a noun (architecture):
The last board of a floor when laid down.
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Key as a noun (masonry):
A keystone.
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Key as a noun:
That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
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Key as a noun (rail transport):
A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
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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."
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Key as a noun (cartomancy):
The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
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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.
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Key as a noun (computer graphics, television):
A color to be masked or made transparent.
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Key as an adjective:
Indispensable, supremely important.
Examples:
"He is the key player on his soccer team."
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Key as an adjective:
Important, salient.
Examples:
"She makes several key points."
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Key as a verb:
To fit (a lock) with a key.
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Key as a verb:
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
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Key as a verb:
To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
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Key as a verb ([[telegraphy]] and [[radio telegraphy]]):
To depress (a telegraph key).
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Key as a verb (radio):
To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
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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."
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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."
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Key as a verb:
To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
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Key as a verb (intransitive, biology, chiefly, taxonomy):
To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
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Key as a verb:
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
Examples:
"rfquotek Francis"
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Key as a noun:
One of a string of small islands.
Examples:
"the Florida Keys"
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Key as a noun:
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Key as a noun (slang):
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