verb
- Identify as in botany or biology, for example.
- Provide with a key.
- usage: "We were keyed after the locks were changed in the building"
- synonyms: key
- Vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key.
- usage: "His new Mercedes was keyed last night in the parking lot"
- synonyms: key
- Regulate the musical pitch of.
- synonyms: key
- Harmonize with or adjust to.
- usage: "key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitude"
- synonyms: key
adjective
- Fitted with or secured by a key.
- usage: "a keyed instrument"; "the locks have not yet been keyed"
- Set to a key or tone. .
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