Crossword clues for keyhole
keyhole
- Area at each end of a basketball court
- Peeper's place?
- Listening post?
- The hole where a key is inserted
- Snooper's opening
- Voyeur's vantage
- Slot for a cotter
- Very important and difficult situation in this surgery?
- Gap to help us enter part of harbour undamaged, we're informed
- Door feature, maybe
- Snoop's vantage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Keyhole \Key"hole`\, n.
A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
(Carp.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
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(Mach.) a mortise for a key or cotter.
Keyhole limpet (Zo["o]l.), a marine gastropod of the genus Fissurella and allied genera. See Fissurella.
Keyhole saw, a narrow, slender saw, used in cutting keyholes, etc., as in doors; a kind of compass saw or fret saw.
Keyhole urchin (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous clypeastroid sea urchins, of the genera Melitta, Rotula, and Encope; -- so called because they have one or more perforations resembling keyholes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns. 2 (context carpentry English) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key that fastens them. 3 (context engineering English) A mortise for a key or cotter. 4 (context lasers English) (rfdef: English)
WordNet
n. the hole where a key is inserted
Wikipedia
A keyhole is an aperture for receiving a key.
Keyhole may also refer to:
- Gravitational keyhole, a region of a large body's orbit that could cause a small body to collide with it
- Keyhole (film), 2011, by Canadian director Guy Maddin
- Keyhole (roller coaster element)
- Keyhole, a region of the sky toward which a telescope cannot point (as in the keyhole problem)
- Keyhole, Inc., a data visualization company acquired by Google
- Keyhole (comics), an alternative comic published in the 1990s
- Key Hole (KH), a series of imaging satellites
- Keyhole surgery
- Keyhole cichlid, a fish from the genus Cleithracara
- Keyhole button closure, a button, usually found on the back of a woman's blouse
- Keyhole Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia, Canada
- Keyhole Glacier, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Keyhole nebula, another name for the Carina Nebula
- A type of cockpit on a kayak or sea kayak
A keyhole (or keyway) is a hole or aperture (as in a door or lock) for receiving a key. Lock keyway shapes vary widely with lock manufacturer, and many manufacturers have a number of unique profiles requiring a specifically milled key blank to engage the lock's tumblers.
Keyhole was a critically acclaimed black-and-white alternative comic book published from 1996–1998. A two-man anthology by cartoonists Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld, Keyhole was published by two different publishers, starting with Millennium Publications and ending up at Top Shelf Productions.
Keyhole is a 2012 Canadian film directed by Guy Maddin, starring Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier and Kevin McDonald. A surreal combination of gangster film and haunted house film, which draws on Homer's Odyssey as well, Keyhole tells the story of a Ulysses Pick (Patric), who returns to his home and embarks on an odyssey through the house, one room at a time. Filming began in Winnipeg on July 6, 2010. Maddin shot Keyhole digitally rather than his usual method of shooting on 16mm or Super-8mm.
Usage examples of "keyhole".
I was glued to my keyhole, mesmerized, as Fatty piped some command and a score of amahs clacked forward to parade the girls.
Going to the door of the chancery, I put my bar in the keyhole, but finding immediately that I could not break it open, I resolved on making a hole in the door.
He listened intently for a response, but no sound followed except the sharp note of the electric bell as Flack rang it again while Inspector Seldon bent down with his ear at the keyhole.
I made him shew me the place, and looking through the keyhole I saw that there was plenty of room for a mattress.
Sons with mothers, sires with daughters, lesbic sisters, loves that dare not speak their name, nephews with grandmothers, jailbirds with keyholes, queens with prize bulls.
In the right-hand corner, almost invisible from outside, was a narrow door of thick teak that opened very readily when the Mahatma fumbled with it although I saw no lock, hasp or keyhole on the side toward us.
Her hair hung scrappily out of the hasty braid Gaultry had tied it in before coming up to the Keyhole Chamber.
Well, there was the obvious association: the stereotype of a private investigator is that of a snooper, a keyhole peeper.
I brought her in, barricaded the door, and took care to cover up the keyhole to baffle the curious, and, if the worse happened, to avoid a surprise.
They had reached a cluster of glass lifts and Yue Hwa moved to one that had no buttons, only a keyhole.
Chancellor and his frightening officer, Lord Issachar Dan, were taking Mervion Blas up to the Keyhole Chamber.
Charles felt around the brank, for the keyhole locking its back hinge into place.
My glim showed me the keyhole, and I cut the lock, which was mortised into the thickness of the door, clean away, taking a square which gave ample margin beyond the edges of the lock.
It was a natural break in the wall of the cavern that had been trimmed into a keyhole arch shape and then subsequently covered with the pearly stalagmitic stuff.
American KH-11 Keyhole or Aquacade in orbit-that would be a huge accomplishment in espionage, a much bigger deal than Falcon, or Snowman, or Jonathan Pollard.