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A kind of address
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keynote
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A keynote in public speaking is a talk that establishes a main underlying theme. In corporate or commercial settings, greater importance is attached to the delivery of a keynote speech or keynote address. The keynote establishes the framework for the following ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also key-note , "lowest note of a musical scale, basis of a scale," 1776, from key (n.1) in sense of "musical scale" + note (n.). Figurative sense of "leading idea" is from 1783; keynote address is 1905, American English.
Usage examples of keynote.
CEO, making his keynote address to the Macintosh Expo in San Francisco.
And simplicity and justice gave the two great keynotes for all that they did.
It was with a new comprehension he understood his employer's dictum that the keynote of external nature was middle F--this employer who himself possessed that psychic sense of absolute pitch--and that the roar of a city, wind in forest trees, the cry of trains, the rushing of rivers and falling water, Niagara itself, all produced this single utterance.
On Monday, he had been scheduled to give the keynote address to a widely publicized conference of Catholic bishops on the subject of the Church's political relations with Eastern European communist regimes.
In his keynote address to The Economist CEE Telecommunications Conference, in December 2001, Ofer Gneezy, President and CEO of iBasis (a global ITSP), cited industry analysts projecting VoIP average annual growth rates in CEE of 80 percent through 2006.
Now here's this big southwest regional educators' conference where they've got him up there giving the keynote address?
Nevertheless, they became, in effect, the keynote address of the campaign that began inside NASA.
Several speakers followed, relating their personal anecdotes, and Hunt went up last to deliver the keynote address.
The delegates normally listen only to the keynote address and the presidential and vice-presidential acceptance speeches.
Colin, in a voice quieter than his thumping heart, murmured the lyric to the most potent lullaby he knew, the Keynote Address of the Hostess at Her Majesty's Royal Baby Shower.
He knew everyone was trying to be nice, that they were all supposed to introduce themselves to the keynote speaker, but he could only feel his heart pounding a million miles an hour and hear the ringing in his ears.
There came a time, shortly before the war, when I was invited to be keynote speaker at a convention held in another state.
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO awards dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
Sitting between Jennifer and Dave, Paul was glancing around the hall, only half listening to the chairmans fulsome introduction of the evenings keynote speaker, when he was hit by the probe.
Bloomquist, MD, was the keynote speaker, one of the big stars of the conference.