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1 key
[ki:] 1. noun1) (an instrument or tool by which something (eg a lock or a nut) is turned: Have you the key for this door?) chave2) (in musical instruments, one of the small parts pressed to sound the notes: piano keys.) tecla3) (in a typewriter, calculator etc, one of the parts which one presses to cause a letter etc to be printed, displayed etc.) tecla4) (the scale in which a piece of music is set: What key are you singing in?; the key of F.) escala5) (something that explains a mystery or gives an answer to a mystery, a code etc: the key to the whole problem.) chave6) (in a map etc, a table explaining the symbols etc used in it.) escala2. adjective(most important: key industries; He is a key man in the firm.) essencial- keyboard- keyhole
- keyhole surgery
- keynote
- keyed up* * *key1[ki:] n 1 chave, chaveta (também Electr). 2 código, padrão, legenda. 3 solução, explicação, decifração, código. 4 posição-chave, reduto. 5 pessoa ou coisa indispensável, dirigente, comandante. 6 pino, parafuso, contrapino, cunha, porca. 7 chave de fenda, chave inglesa. 8 tecla, lingüeta de flauta e outros instrumentos de sopro. 9 Mus escala, tonalidade. what’s the key? / Mus qual é a chave? 10 estilo musical ou literário. 11 keys pl membros da câmara de representantes na Ilha de Man. • vt 1 Tech encaixar, entalhar. 2 fechar à chave, chavear. 3 Typogr calçar. 4 Mus afinar. 5 ajustar, acertar (um discurso à altura do auditório). 6 fig conferir, estar certo. • adj 1 controlador de controle. 2 muito importante, essencial, fundamental. he had the key of the street sl ele teve de passar a noite no olho da rua. master key chave-mestra. natural key Mus chave natural. to key in Comp introduzir comandos ou dados através da digitação. to key up incitar, estimular, Mus elevar o tom.————————key2[ki:] n recife, parcel, baixio. -
2 size
1) (largeness: an area the size of a football pitch; The size of the problem alarmed us.) tamanho2) (one of a number of classes in which shoes, dresses etc are grouped according to measurements: I take size 5 in shoes.) número•- sizeable- size up* * *size1[saiz] n 1 tamanho, área. what size is it? / de que tamanho é? 2 extensão, magnitude, dimensão, medida, volume, quantidade. 3 medida, número, formato, tamanho. 4 coll condição. • vt 1 arranjar, classificar de acordo com o tamanho. 2 fazer de certo tamanho. king size tamanho gigante. life-size tamanho natural, de tamanho natural. queen size tamanho grande. to cut somebody down to size coll colocar no devido lugar. his boss cut him down to size / seu patrão o pôs no seu lugar, mostrou que ele não era tão importante quanto pensava. to size up taxar, calcular, julgar, formar conceito sobre.————————size2[saiz] n cola (de amido), goma. • vt engomar, tratar, cobrir com cola. -
3 survival
noun (the state of surviving: the problem of survival in sub-zero temperatures; ( also adjective) survival equipment.) sobrevivência* * *sur.viv.al[səv'aivəl] n 1 sobrevivência. 2 pessoa, coisa, costume, etc. que sobrevive. survival of the fittest sobrevivência dos mais aptos, seleção natural.
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