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Attack on computer systems using cryptography
Key finding attacks are attacks on computer systems that make use of cryptography in which computer memory or non-volatile storage is searched for private
Key_finding_attacks
Means of compromising computer security by restarting the computer
An attacker is then free to analyze the data dumped from memory to find sensitive data, such as the keys, using various forms of key finding attacks. Since
Cold_boot_attack
2000 American drama film by Gus Van Sant
Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Mike Rich. In the film, a teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown)
Finding_Forrester
Form of message tampering
keys, and not the public key of an attacker. Otherwise, such attacks are generally possible, in principle, against any message sent using public-key technology
Man-in-the-middle_attack
2023 armed incursions and massacres in Israel
Massacre. Internationally and commonly in Israel, the attacks are called the October 7 attacks. Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories, including
October_7_attacks
Standard for the encryption of electronic data
successful published attacks against the full AES were side-channel attacks on some specific implementations. In 2009, a new related-key attack was discovered
Advanced_Encryption_Standard
British computer scientist, cryptographer and entrepreneur
the concept of key finding attacks. A statistical key finding attack was used by van Someren to locate the signature verification keys used by Microsoft
Nicko_van_Someren
Sudden intensification or recurrence of medical symptoms
water, anxiety, and neck flexion may provoke paroxysmal attacks. Most reported paroxysmal attacks are painful tonic spasms, dysarthria and ataxia, numbness
Paroxysmal_attack
Algorithm for public-key cryptography
implementation is sensitive to fault injection attacks. If an attacker can obtain 1 faulty signature, the private key can be calculated. There are many details
RSA_cryptosystem
Type of cyber-attack
classic DoS attack methods centered on IP spoofing and amplification like smurf attacks and fraggle attacks (types of bandwidth consumption attacks). SYN floods
Denial-of-service_attack
Asymmetric encryption algorithm developed by Robert McEliece
cryptanalysis so far. The most effective attacks known use information-set decoding algorithms. A 2008 paper describes both an attack and a fix. Another paper shows
McEliece_cryptosystem
Practice in cryptography
finding a way to decrypt an encrypted message without the key, and forward secrecy only protects keys, not the ciphers themselves. A patient attacker
Forward_secrecy
Cryptographic attack
timing attacks. Removing timing-dependencies is difficult since varied execution time can occur at any level. Vulnerability to timing attacks is often
Timing_attack
Type of cryptographic attack
function quantifies the resistance of the function to birthday attacks (exploiting uneven key distribution). However, determining the balance of a hash function
Birthday_attack
Islamist terror attacks in India
The 2008 Mumbai attacks, colloquially known as 26/11, were a coordinated series of twelve Islamic terrorist attacks carried out in Mumbai, Maharashtra
2008_Mumbai_attacks
Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir
history of attacks on religious minorities, initially claimed responsibility for the attack. It did so twice, on both the day of the attack and the next
2025_Pahalgam_attack
Cryptographic hash function
collision attacks. These attacks allow an attacker to forge a message signed only by a keyed hash – SHA(key || message), but not SHA(message || key) – by
SHA-1
Method of exchanging cryptographic keys
message because only she has a (the private key). A pre-shared public key also prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. In practice, Diffie–Hellman is not used
Diffie–Hellman_key_exchange
Email authentication method designed to associate a domain with a message stream
practice, it is hard to verify many old emails due to key rotation and difficulty in finding the original keys before rotation, as they are not published anywhere
DomainKeys_Identified_Mail
Domestic terrorist attacks
the attack premiered on NRK 5 January 2020. Timeline of the 2011 Norway attacks 22 July Information Centre, the government enquiry into the attacks List
2011_Norway_attacks
2024 bridge collapse near Baltimore, Maryland, US
instead spent decades studying how terrorists might attack the bridge after the September 11 attacks or inspecting for structural flaws similar to those
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_collapse
Cryptography secured against quantum computers
Grover's algorithm does speed up attacks against symmetric ciphers, doubling the key size can effectively counteract these attacks. Thus post-quantum symmetric
Post-quantum_cryptography
2015 Islamist terror attacks in France
2004, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of France. The attacks came one day after similar attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, and thirteen days
November_2015_Paris_attacks
American singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Keys continued developing her songwriting and finding her own 'flow and style" through her exploration of the intricacies in different music. Keys spent
Alicia_Keys
This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database includes 312 fatal shark attacks between 1791 and January 2026
List of fatal shark attacks in Australia
List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_Australia
farms in South Africa. The attacks target both white and black farmers. The term has no formal legal definition, but such attacks have been the subject of
South_African_farm_attacks
Security vulnerability in Diffie–Hellman key exchange
a DHE_EXPORT choice, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct cipher-downgrade attacks by rewriting a ClientHello with DHE replaced by DHE_EXPORT
Logjam_(computer_security)
Cryptographic attack
attacks is commonly modeled using ciphertext indistinguishability (IND-CCA2). Bleichenbacher, Daniel (August 23–27, 1998). Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against
Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack
Adaptive_chosen-ciphertext_attack
Message-digest hashing algorithm
contemplate a birthday attack. MD5CRK was a distributed project started in March 2004 to demonstrate that MD5 is practically insecure by finding a collision using
MD5
2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, who died a year earlier in the September 11 attacks. The discovery inspires Oskar
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely_Loud_&_Incredibly_Close
Methods to break a stream cipher
[citation needed] However, they are vulnerable to attacks if certain precautions are not followed: Keys must never be reused. Valid decryption should never
Stream_cipher_attacks
Bioterrorist attacks in the United States
according to a statement in the agreement. The anthrax attacks began a week after the 9/11 attacks, which had caused the destruction of the original World
2001_anthrax_attacks
Ongoing armed conflict in West Asia
authorized Iran oil sales as retaliation for the attacks, while Saudi Arabia condemned the attacks against both their and the Qatari tanker. The United
2026_Iran_war
Measurement of the direction from which a received signal was transmitted
Direction finding (DF), radio direction finding (RDF), or radiogoniometry is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source. The
Direction_finding
Series of murders in Canada
in from the United States. All firearms used in the attacks were acquired illegally. The attacks originated in the rural beachside community of Portapique
2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks
Symptoms reported by US and Canadian officials abroad
AHI investigation, saying, "We have already held fact finding hearings on these debilitating attacks, many of which result in medically confirmed cases of
Havana_syndrome
Attack on a computer system
services often have a compelling interest in finding out whether a state is behind the attack. Unlike attacks carried out in person, determining the entity
Cyberattack
Sexual and gender-based violence committed by Hamas
During the October 7 attacks, Israeli women, girls and men were reportedly subjected to sexual violence, including rape and sexual assault, by Hamas or
Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks
Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_October_7_attacks
Attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya
information and findings from investigations into the attacks Archived April 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Interactive Map of Attack at The New York
2012_Benghazi_attack
Practice and study of secure communication techniques
symmetric-key ciphers typically involves looking for attacks against the block ciphers or stream ciphers that are more efficient than any attack that could
Cryptography
Victims of terror attacks in the US
The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 19 hijackers who committed
Casualties of the September 11 attacks
Casualties_of_the_September_11_attacks
Set of cryptographic hash functions
the attacks. (However, even a secure password hash cannot prevent brute-force attacks on weak passwords.) In the case of document signing, an attacker could
SHA-2
Form of cryptanalysis
the cipher is broken because of the vulnerability to known-plaintext attacks. The key can easily be extracted from this pairing. The slid pair can be thought
Slide_attack
Study of analyzing information systems in order to discover their hidden aspects
cryptographic key is unknown. In addition to mathematical analysis of cryptographic algorithms, cryptanalysis includes the study of side-channel attacks that do
Cryptanalysis
Violent tactic resulting in the attacker's intentional death
international law, but suicide attacks sometimes violate prohibitions against perfidy or targeting civilians. Suicide attacks have occurred in various contexts
Suicide_attack
Vehicle-ramming attack in Ontario, Canada
victims and families of both the van attack and the Danforth shooting. 2014 Isla Vista killings – misogynistic terror attacks perpetrated by Elliot Rodger, by
2018_Toronto_van_attack
Hash function that is suitable for use in cryptography
found in § Attacks on hashed passwords); a second preimage resistance strength, with the same expectations, refers to a similar problem of finding a second
Cryptographic_hash_function
Islamist suicide terrorist attacks
the attacks occurred, described the bombers as "cleanskins", a term describing them as previously unknown to authorities. On the day of the attacks, all
7_July_2005_London_bombings
attacks, see Fatal dog attacks. See: List of fatal dog attacks in Canada See: Fatal dog attacks in the United States See: List of fatal dog attacks in
List_of_fatal_dog_attacks
Terrorist attack on Madrid's suburban trains
The scale and precise planning of the attacks reared memories of the September 11 attacks. Following the attacks, there were nationwide demonstrations
2004_Madrid_train_bombings
Terrorist attack in India in September 2002
leaving for the attack in Gujarat. However, Zargar stated, "We are not involved in militancy at all. Instead we are under threat and many attacks have been
Akshardham_Temple_attack
2020 American supernatural horror drama television series
Locke & Key is an American fantasy drama television series developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite, based on the comic book
Locke_&_Key_(TV_series)
2013 murder of a British soldier
including 125 online incidents, 17 incidents involving physical attack, and 11 attacks on mosques. Incidents ranged from verbal abuse to physical assaults
Murder_of_Lee_Rigby
Theories on 2001 terror attacks in U.S.
conspiracy theories attribute the preparation and execution of the September 11 attacks against the United States to parties other than, or in addition to, al-Qaeda
9/11_conspiracy_theories
Founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)
organization al-Qaeda, which has committed numerous terrorist attacks worldwide. Its attacks against the U.S. on 11 September 2001 led the "threat of militant
Osama_bin_Laden
2021 attack to stop election certification
February 12, 2021. The January 6th Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Random House
January 6 United States Capitol attack
January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
Hezbollah stated it would not stop attacks against Israel until it stops its military operations in Gaza; Israel said its attacks would continue until its citizens
Hezbollah–Israel conflict (2023–present)
Hezbollah–Israel_conflict_(2023–present)
American artist and victims' advocate
to testify against him again at his trial. She has spoken openly about finding healing by becoming a victims' advocate in support of victims' rights and
Mary_Vincent_(artist)
On finding a repeating loop in a sequence
In computer science, cycle detection or cycle finding is the algorithmic problem of finding a cycle in a sequence of iterated function values. For any
Cycle_detection
Stream ciphers
Zhenqing Shi; Bin Zhang; Dengguo Feng; Wenling Wu (2012). "Improved Key Recovery Attacks on Reduced-Round Salsa20 and ChaCha". Information Security and Cryptology
Salsa20
Pakistani militant (1987–2012)
part in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, alongside fellow Lashkar-e-Taiba recruit Ismail Khan, killed 72 people during the attacks, most of them at Chhatrapati
Ajmal_Kasab
American actress and model (born 1968)
with Tim Burton: as Vampira in Ed Wood (1994), the Martian Girl in Mars Attacks! (1996), Lady Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Nova in Planet of the
Lisa_Marie_(actress)
Publicly known attacks against cryptographic hash functions
Collisions: New Attacks on Reduced SHA-256. Eurocrypt 2013. Somitra Kumar Sanadhya; Palash Sarkar (2008-11-25). New Collision Attacks against Up to 24-Step
Hash function security summary
Hash_function_security_summary
2017 worldwide ransomware cyberattack
hearing on 'Wanna Cry' ransomware attack". TheHill. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017. "Finding the kill switch to stop the
WannaCry_ransomware_attack
1980 killing of an Australian baby by a dingo
responsible for her death in 1980. Morris made the finding in the light of subsequent reports of dingo attacks on humans causing injury and even death. She
Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain
and undocumented wolf attacks on humans in North America in comparison to wolf attacks in Eurasia, and few relative to attacks by other larger carnivores
List of wolf attacks in North America
List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America
1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
United States, which as of June 2025, it had inspired more than 70 copycat attacks, a phenomenon dubbed the Columbine effect, and Columbine has become a byword
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine_High_School_massacre
Health issues and effects during and after the September 11 attacks
during the attack itself. As of 2023, it is estimated that over 5,000 people have died from medical complications related to the attacks, specifically
Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks
Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks
war crimes, including indiscriminate attacks, if not direct attacks against civilians, disproportionate attacks, including the sustained artillery bombardment
Israeli_war_crimes
Encryption technique
able to detect it. Because of their similarities, attacks on one-time pads are similar to attacks on stream ciphers. Standard techniques to prevent this
One-time_pad
Pakistani-American author (1983–2017)
Ministries from 2013 until 2017. Qureshi authored three books: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity, Answering Jihad: A Better
Nabeel_Qureshi_(writer)
System that regulates the formation of blocks on a blockchain
Bitcoin's Proof of Work consensus algorithm is vulnerable to Majority Attacks (51% attacks). Any miner with over 51% of mining power is able to control the
Proof_of_work
Security protocol for wireless computer networks
employs a per-packet key, meaning that it dynamically generates a new 128-bit key for each packet and thus prevents the types of attacks that compromise WEP
Wi-Fi_Protected_Access
in attacks by Palestinians from the West Bank. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that at least 162 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli attacks in
Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2024
Timeline_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict_in_2024
Armed attack at an educational institution
of school massacres by death toll List of school-related attacks List of unsuccessful attacks related to schools Threat assessment Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
School_shooting
Pakistani militant (born 1965)
chief planner of the September 11 attacks. He also participated in planning Richard Reid’s shoe bombing attempt to attack an airliner; the 2002 Bali bombings
Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed
UN inquiry into Israel-Palestine
antisemitic and written by antisemites". The Jerusalem Post. "Detailed findings on attacks and restrictions on and harassment of civil society actors, by all
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Independent_International_Commission_of_Inquiry_on_the_Occupied_Palestinian_Territory
Mechanism for authenticating cryptographic keys
GSWoT's top-level key minimally as a level 2 introducer (the top-level key endorses level 1 introducers). The possibility of finding chains of certificates
Web_of_trust
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
of birth. The flight was commandeered as part of the September 11 attacks. The attacks themselves cost somewhere in the region of $400,000 and $500,000
American_Airlines_Flight_77
Early unclassified symmetric-key block cipher
brute-force attacks and to strengthen substitution tables, called S-boxes. Conversely, NSA tried to convince IBM to reduce the length of the key from 64 to
Data_Encryption_Standard
President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
personal terms, and questioned the judiciary's constitutional authority. His attacks on courts drew rebukes from observers, including sitting federal judges
Donald_Trump
cryptographic hash function has provable security against collision attacks if finding collisions is provably polynomial-time reducible from a problem P
Security of cryptographic hash functions
Security_of_cryptographic_hash_functions
Cryptographic key-wrapping algorithm
cryptographic keys. The AES Key Wrap Specification, AESKW, TDKW, and AKW1 are intended to maintain confidentiality under adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks, while
Key_wrap
of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The attacks, widely condemned for
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel
American actress and singer (born 1960)
NewsRadio. She is also well known for her roles as Deb and Flo in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, April Smuntz in Mouse Hunt, and Dr. Elsie Chapman in Godzilla
Vicki_Lewis
American political activist (1993–2025)
and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025. A key ally of Donald Trump, he became one of the most prominent voices of the MAGA
Charlie_Kirk
Form of violent assault
dissolving the bones. Acid attacks can lead to partial or complete blindness. The most common types of acid used in these attacks are sulfuric and nitric
Acid_attack
Post-quantum cryptographic algorithm
the Diffie–Hellman key exchange, but is based on walks in a supersingular isogeny graph and was designed to resist cryptanalytic attack by an adversary in
Supersingular isogeny key exchange
Supersingular_isogeny_key_exchange
Ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip
affected" by attacks. 'We are informing civilians even before attacks: keep away from Hamas' infrastructure and Hamas' facilities,' ... Hamas attacked Israel
Gaza_genocide
1892–1894 anarchist terrorist campaign
The Ère des attentats (French for 'Era of Attacks'), or the French anarchist campaign of attacks from 1892 to 1894, was a period in the history of France
Ère_des_attentats
a fatal attack. List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States List of fatal bear attacks in North America List of fatal cougar attacks in North
List_of_wolf_attacks
2023 film by Sébastien Vaniček
their escape plan, Gilles attacks them with a baton, and stabs open the sealed shoebox he thinks contains narcotics and is attacked by the spiders inside
Infested
2005 fatal wolf attack in Canada
attack (fatal coyote attack in the United States) Wolf attacks on humans List of wolf attacks in North America Boyd, Diane K. "(Case Study) Wolf Habituation
Death_of_Kenton_Joel_Carnegie
Investigates chemical weapons attacks
The OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria is a mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate some possible cases
OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria
OPCW_Fact-Finding_Mission_in_Syria
Airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro
gesture which, according to Trump, contributed to avoiding a second wave of attacks. On 30 January, Rodríguez announced an amnesty bill for political prisoners
2026 United States intervention in Venezuela
2026_United_States_intervention_in_Venezuela
al-Qaeda attacks was thorough enough to have mandated intervention, the extent to which the alleged hijackers were under surveillance prior to the attacks, and
September 11 attacks advance-knowledge conspiracy theories
September_11_attacks_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theories
Electrical switch used to transmit text messages in Morse code
A telegraph key, clacker, tapper or morse key is a specialized electrical switch used by a trained operator to transmit text messages in Morse code in
Telegraph_key
2000 suicide attack by al-Qaeda
that al-Mihdhar had been one of the key planners of the attack and had been in the country at the time of the attacks. He later returned to the United States
USS_Cole_bombing
American microbiologist, vaccinologist and murder suspect (1946 - 2008)
often cited the 2001 anthrax attacks in his papers to bolster the significance of his research in years subsequent to the attacks. In a 2006 paper published
Bruce_Edwards_Ivins
U.S Armed conflict in South Asia
several US soldiers died in the raids, ambushes, and rocket attacks. Besides guerrilla attacks, Taliban fighters began building up forces in the district
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
KEY FINDING-ATTACKS
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Biblical
hiding, binding
Boy/Male
Muslim
Key
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; possibly a respelling of Kay 6, a shortened form of Scottish and Irish McKay.Korean : There is only one Chinese character and one clan for the Kye family name. According to the Kye family genealogy, the clan was founded by a Ming Dynasty government official named Kye SÅk-son who migrated to KoryÅ and settled in today’s Suan County of Hwanghae Province. The majority of bearers of the Kye family name today live in North Korea.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit, Tamil
Key; Love
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English ca ‘jackdaw’, from an unattested Old Norse ká. See also Daw.English : nickname from Middle English cai, kay, kei ‘left-handed’, ‘clumsy’.English : metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle English keye, kaye ‘key’. Compare Care, Kear.English : topographic name for someone living on or near a quay, Middle English kay(e), Old French cay.English : from a Middle English personal name which figures in Arthurian legend. It is found in Old Welsh as Cai, Middle Welsh Kei, and is ultimately from the Latin personal name Gaius.Scottish and Irish : reduced form of McKay.French : variant of Quay, cognate with 2.Much shortened form of any of various names, mostly Eastern European, beginning with the letter K-.Variant of Danish and Frisian Kai.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name for someone from a place called Fyning in Rogate in Sussex.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Hiding, binding.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Key
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from an Old English felding ‘dweller in open country’.
Surname or Lastname
English and German
English and German : variant of Kay.Irish : reduced form of McKay.
Male
Japanese
(1-å¥, 2-謙, 3-ç ”) Japanese name KEN means 1) "healthy, strong" or 2) "modest," or 3) "study." Compare with another form of Ken.
Male
English
Short form of English Kenneth, KEN means both "born of fire" and "comely; finely made." Also used as a nickname for other names that begin with Ken-. Compare with another form of Ken.
Boy/Male
Indian
Key
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Fenning.
Surname or Lastname
English (now chiefly Lancashire)
English (now chiefly Lancashire) : from an unattested Old English personal name, Wilding, a derivative of Old English wilde ‘wild’, ‘savage’. It is also possible that it may be from a topographical term derived from the same vocabulary word. Compare Wild, but early forms with prepositions are not found.German : patronymic from Wilto, a short form of a Germanic personal name beginning with wild ‘wild’.
Boy/Male
Christian, Gaelic, Indian
The One who Opens the Lock
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Finding
Boy/Male
Gaelic
Son of Aidan.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Kay.
Boy/Male
Bengali, English, Indian, Sindhi
Key
KEY FINDING-ATTACKS
KEY FINDING-ATTACKS
Girl/Female
Anglo Saxon
Pleasant and bright.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Zodiac Sign; Star; Constellation
Boy/Male
Hindu
One having abnormal quality
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Modern, Tamil, Telugu
Worship; Flower; Pray Flower; Blossom
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Harvard.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Girl/Female
Australian, Danish, German, Irish, Scottish, Swedish
A Flickering Fire; Fire; Dark of Peace; Arising from the Dark of Peace
Male
English
Tolkien literary name ELROND means "star dome."
Girl/Female
Biblical
Separated, crowned, sanctified.
Girl/Female
African American Biblical French
Saturday's child.
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n.
An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit.
a.
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
v. t.
To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
n.
The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
n.
A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem.
n.
State of sinking or bending; sagging.
n.
A winding or bending in and out.
a.
Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
n.
That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
n.
An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
n.
The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
n.
See Key way, under Key.
n.
The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
n.
Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village.
a.
Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
n.
Anything used in fitting up
n.
A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
n.
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key.
n.
A winding, bending, or twisting.