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Essential
Answer for the clue "Essential ", 3 letters:
key
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Word definitions for key in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"metal piece that works a lock," from Old English cæg "key," of unknown origin, with no certain cognates other than Old Frisian kei . Perhaps related to Middle Low German keie "lance, spear" on notion of "tool to cleave with," from Proto-Germanic *ki- "to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bunch of keys ▪ A bunch of keys dangled from his belt. a car door/engine/key etc ▪ She left the car engine running. a door key ▪ She was looking in her bag for her door key. a key aspect (= a very important ...
Usage examples of key.
It is another key discovery that the old seers made, but in their aberration they relegated it to oblivion until it was rescued by the new seers.
Scott Velie commenced his prepared speech as he sat, holding in abeyance his moment for rising, which was timed to occur at the delivery of a key sentence halfway into his brief statement.
Or that the Abloy key over there on the board is for the main entrance.
Sure enough, the keys were in the ignition, just like the Scorpion Lady had promised, and I drove out to Phaya Tai Road and cruised up and down it til I finally found the Acme Fertilizer Company.
Jack let himself into the diner with the key that Addle had given him weeks before, wondering how he could have been so stupid.
The yeoman keyed up the proper addressee and transmitted the message by dedicated landline to COMSUBLANT Operations, half a mile away.
The admin office windows were all dark when he arrived, and he realized he did not have a key.
He got them into the admin office, found Stafford a spare key, and gave him a keypad combination card in case he came in after hours when no one was there.
Pavilion Key climbed a tree with her baby and was compelled to let it go adrift from her arms.
We did a mailing to key advertisers, simply looking to create some name recognition.
Also, the key to yellow page advertising is to keep your message distinctive and your budget priorities in place.
As they deposited the key, the man in his shirt-sleeves appeared with an affiche for Mr.
McDermitt and Chief Gerald hurried for the walled-in room aft of the escape trunk--the maneuvering room that was the control for the entire propulsion plant and would be a key space to secure in order to get the Tampa out on its own power.
The communication revolution, seen by sociologists like Baudrillard to be the key constitutive feature of our age, has aggrandized the media to the point where signs have displaced their referents, where images of the Real have usurped the authority of the Real, whence the subject is engulfed by simulacra.
Finished with cycling the air-lock combination, Councillor Albedo tapped at the invisible key in his palm once again.