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MAJOR KEY

Definition: MAJOR KEY

MAJOR KEY

1. (Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major seconds, and three and four, and seven and eight, make minor seconds.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: MAJOR KEY

DomainDefinition

Computing

The primary key in a record. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "MAJOR KEY".

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Strumming acoustic guitar and percussion playing in a major key area.Arpeggiated digital keyboard effects playing in a major key area.
Major key area excerpt incorporating various synthesized marimba and flutes.Brazilian syncopated percussion layered with a major key melody.
Synthesized flutes with guitar arpeggios playing in a major key area.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MAJOR KEY

Language Translations for "MAJOR KEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tonalitet maxhor. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мажорен ключ (major). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hovednoegle i post. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hoofdsleutel. (various references)

   

French

  

indicatif majeur. (various references)

   

German

  

Primärschlüssel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Κύριο κλειδί. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fõkulcs (master key). (various references)

   

Italian

  

chiave principale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

長調 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょうちょう (butterfly, clashing of swords, felling of trees, ringing of an ax, town headman). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gleaysh mooar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ajormay eykay

   

Portuguese

  

indicativo principal, chave principal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мажор (majeure). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

durski ključ. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

huvudnyckel (master key, masterkey, passe-partout, passkey, skeleton key). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

majör perdesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MAJOR KEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-j-k-m-o-r-y"

-3 letters: jerky, joker, jokey, joram, major, maker, mayor, morae, moray.

-4 letters: aero, aery, amok, army, eyra, jake, jerk, joey, joke, joky, kame, kayo, kore, kyar, make, mako, mare, mark, mayo, merk, moke, mora, more, okay, okra, omer, oyer, rake, ream, roam, ryke, yare, year, yerk, yoke, yore.

-5 letters: are, ark, arm, aye, ear, era.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Sounds
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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