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Definition: Keyhole |
KeyholeNoun1. The hole where a key is inserted. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "keyhole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A frequent test for sobriety. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you spy upon others through a keyhole, you will damage some person by disclosing confidence. If you catch others peeping through a keyhole, you will have false friends delving into your private matters to advance themselves over you. To dream that you cannot find the keyhole, you will unconsciously injure a friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | A carrier molecule. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opening | Noun: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Keyhole |
| English words defined with "keyhole": Aspidobranchia ♦ Compass saw ♦ Fissurella ♦ genus Fissurella ♦ Seal lock ♦ Zygobranchia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "keyhole": ACOUSTICAL CARPENTER, acoustical-material worker ♦ BUCHANAN ♦ DRY-WALL APPLICATOR, dry-wall installations mechanic, dry-wall installer ♦ Eavesdrop ♦ gypsum dry-wall systems installer ♦ keyhole specimen ♦ metal-tile lather. (references) |
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Clever | He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mondo Keyhole (1966) Keyhole (1961) The Keyhole (1933) Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933) Saved by a Keyhole (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. A keyhole urchin - a close relative of the sand dollar. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Key Hole" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A keyhole. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He could see the keyhole, and the strong bolt deeply plunged into the iron staple |
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Health | A method for removing kidney stones through keyhole surgery. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free -- The subject engaging them was she. "I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear. "I will not stay," she said, with a pout, "To hear my character lied about!" Gopete Sherany |
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| "Keyhole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.19% of the time. "Keyhole" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.19% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "keyhole": keyhole borer ♦ keyhole limpet ♦ keyhole limpet hemocyanin ♦ keyhole saw ♦ keyhole specimen ♦ Keyhole urchin ♦ peep through the keyhole ♦ put the key in the keyhole ♦ through keyhole. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "keyhole": keyhole-limpet, keyhole-shaped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "keyhole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrimë e çelësit. (various references) | |
Arabic | كاشف عن السر, ثقب المفتاح, شديد الإهتمام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ключалка (click, fastener, latch, lock, snap), недискретен (indiscreet, leaky), интимен (downstage, familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, intimate, near, pally, personal, private, privy, tete a tete, thick). (various references) | |
Chinese | 匙孔. (various references) | |
Czech | klíèová dírka. (various references) | |
Danish | U-formet kaerv (keyhole notch), stiksav (keyhole hack-saw, sabre jig saw), slagprøveemne med nøglehulsformet kærv (keyhole specimen), plade til noeglehul (keyhole plate), noegleskilt (keyhole plate), noeglehulskaerv med en krumningsradius paa 1 mm (keyhole notch with a root radius of l mm), noeglehulskaerv (keyhole notch). (various references) | |
Dutch | U-vormige kerf (keyhole notch), stootzaag (keyhole hack-saw), sleutelplaat (keyhole plate), sleutelgatvormige kerf (keyhole notch), sleutelgatkerf met een afrondingsstraal bij het diepste punt van l mm (keyhole notch with a root radius of l mm), sleutelgatkerf (keyhole notch), schrobzaag (keyhole hack-saw), proefstuk met sleutelgatvormige kerf (keyhole specimen), houtbroeder (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm), ambrosiakever (ambrosia beetle, ambrosia borer, flagworm, keyhole borer, pinhole borer, shothole borer, spot worm, spruce ambrosia beetle, striped ambrosia beetle). (various references) | |
Farsi | سوراخ کلید (Keyway). (various references) | |
Finnish | avaimenreikä. (various references) | |
French | trou de serrure, très intéressé. (various references) | |
German | schlüsselloch. (various references) | |
Greek | κλειδαρότρυπα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חור המנעול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kulcslyuk. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lubang kunci. (various references) | |
Italian | buco della serratura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鍵穴 , ガ行 (buzzword, catch phrase, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "gu", keel, keep, keeper, keno, key, key advisor, key chain, key club, key currency, key holder, key industry, key market, key point, key punch, key station, keyboard, keyhole journalism, keyman, key-map, keynote, keypad, keypuncher, keystone, keystone combination, key-stroke, keysym, key-symbol, key-touch, keyword, kiwi, kiwi fruit, reference sample, the key). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かぎあな, キーホール . (various references) | |
Manx | towl ogheragh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nøkkelhull. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyholekay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fechadura (dead-lock, door lock, lock), buraco de fechadura. (various references) | |
Romanian | gaura cheii (peep hole). (various references) | |
Russian | скважина (bore, chink, hole, peep, pore, slit), замочная скважина. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ključaonica. (various references) | |
Spanish | ojo de la cerradura, ojo de cerradura. (various references) | |
Swedish | nyckelhål. (various references) | |
Thai | รูกุญแจ. (various references) | |
Turkish | anahtar deliği (key-hole). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | замкова щілина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lỗ khoá. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Xyleborus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "keyhole": keyholes. (additional references) | |
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"Keyhole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eryholme, Heyhoe, Kayholm, Kehheler, Keithley, keyhold, keyholeful, Kuhnle, Leeholme, okeydoke. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "keyhole" (pronounced kē"hō'l) |
| 3 | -h ō' l | buttonhole, cubbyhole, foxhole, loophole, manhole, pigeonhole, pinhole, posthole, pothole, sinkhole. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-k-l-o-y" | |
-2 letters: hokey, holey, hoyle, yokel. | |
-3 letters: eely, heel, helo, hoke, hole, holk, holy, keel, koel, kohl, leek, leke, okeh, yelk, yoke, yolk. | |
-4 letters: eel, eke, elk, eye, hey, hoe, hoy, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, oke, ole, yeh, yok. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-k-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: keyholes. | |
+4 letters: honeysuckle. | |
+5 letters: honeysuckles. | |
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