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Adjunct
noun · 78% connection
A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Apertion
noun · 78% connection
The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Archivolt
noun · 78% connection
The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Bank
noun · 78% connection
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Bassoon
noun · 78% connection
A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Bastile Bastille
noun · 78% connection
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Bocardo
noun · 78% connection
A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Bunch
noun · 78% connection
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of k…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Calliope
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Carillon
noun · 78% connection
A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Charge
verb · 78% connection
To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Chatelaine
noun · 78% connection
An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Claviger
noun · 78% connection
One who carries the keys of any place.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Commitment
noun · 78% connection
The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Concertina
noun · 78% connection
A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Conch
noun · 78% connection
One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Cotter
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an ope…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
Cucking stool
unknown · 78% connection
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: charge, keys, prison, opening, fastening.
