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English
Etymology
From key + word.
Pronunciation
Noun
keyword (plural keywords)
- (cryptography) Any word used as the key to a code.
- Synonyms: password, passcode
- Coordinate term: keyphrase
- (information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
- (information science) Any important word in a text or document, which may be linked to other words or other information, or at least merely listed in the metadata for searches to find.
- Synonyms: operative word, workword
- Hypernym: keystring
- Coordinate term: keyphrase
- (programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 9-12, page 113:Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword.
2017, Wisnu Anggoro, Learning C++ Functional Programming, page 8:Since C++11, the auto
keyword is used to tell the compiler to deduce the actual type of a variable that is being declared from its initializer.
- (linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
- Coordinate terms: collocation, statistically improbable phrase
Derived terms
Translations
word used as a key to a code
- Belarusian: ключаво́е сло́ва n (ključavóje slóva)
- Bulgarian: ключ (bg) m (ključ), клю́чова ду́ма f (kljúčova dúma)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 關鍵詞 / 关键词 (zh) (guānjiàncí), 關鍵字 / 关键字 (zh) (guānjiànzì)
- Czech: klíčové slovo n
- Danish: nøgleord (da) n
- Dutch: sleutelwoord (nl) n
- Finnish: avainsana (fi)
- French: mot-clé (fr) m
- German: Schlüsselwort (de) m, Passwort (de) n, Stichwort (de) n
- Greek: κλειδολέξη f (kleidoléxi), λέξη κλειδί (el) f (léxi kleidí)
- Hebrew: מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ m (milát maftéakh)
- Hungarian: kulcsszó (hu)
- Icelandic: markorð n, stikkorð n
- Ido: klefovorto
- Indonesian: kata sandi
- Italian: parola chiave f
- Japanese: キーワード (ja) (kīwādo)
- Korean: 키워드 (kiwodeu), 핵심어(核心語) (haeksimeo)
- Macedonian: клу́чен збор m (klúčen zbor)
- Malay: kata kunci
- Maori: kupu matua
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nøkkelord n
- Nynorsk: nykelord n, nøkkelord n
- Persian: کلیدواژه (kelidvâže), واژۀ کلیدی (vâže-ye kelidi)
- Polish: słowo klucz n, słowo kluczowe n
- Portuguese: palavra-chave (pt) f
- Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
- Russian: ключево́е сло́во (ru) n (ključevóje slóvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кључна реч f, кључна ријеч f
- Roman: ključna reč f, ključna riječ f
- Slovak: kľúčové slovo n
- Slovene: ključna beseda f
- Spanish: palabra clave f, clave (es) f
- Swedish: nyckelord (sv) n
- Tagalog: susing-salita
- Turkish: anahtar kelime (tr), anahtar sözcük (tr)
- Ukrainian: ключове́ сло́во n (ključové slóvo)
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programming: A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.
(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
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See also
Verb
keyword (third-person singular simple present keywords, present participle keywording, simple past and past participle keyworded)
- (transitive) To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
2008 March 12, Philip Gefter, “Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos”, in New York Times:Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording, or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers.
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
keyword m (invariable)
- (computing) keyword