Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher.
- n. A significant or descriptive word.
- n. A word used as a reference point for finding other words or information.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A word which serves as a key, guide, or explanation to the meaning, use, or pronunciation of other words, or to other matters.
Wiktionary
- n. any word used as the key to a code
- n. information science Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
- n. programming A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.
- n. linguistics Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
- v. transitive To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A word used as an entry point into an index which serves to identify files, records, texts, or other data containing the key or some related word, such as a synonym. It is a type of key{15}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
- n. a word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message
Etymologies
- key + word (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You can go as far as do dynamic keyword insertion by putting in placeholders into your text such as \% keyword\% or even a long nonsense string that'll never get used in the actual text such as”
“Today, a search on the Internet about the Chinese search is a big problem for the Chinese word is never easy, unlike Latin spaces between each word separated, so PunBB or other forum on Chinese The poor search results is normal, the current forum for the various Chinese search only for a simple keyword search % keyword%, and the PunBB search on the word of Chinese extraction null and void and will only serve to extract a large number of sentences, and search results Is not accurate.”
“For example, when you google the phrase "keyword summarization," you get more than 262 million results.”
“I will use the term keyword argument to cover both named arguments and flags.”
“In that book, Dan uses the term keyword hierarchy to explain about grouping your content and putting in a hierarchical manner.”
“In addition, Keyword Research allows us to identify how competitive a keyword is and, consequently, the work involved to achieve a top 10 result on any Search Engine Results Page (SERP).”
“One way to gauge potential material would be to do a title keyword search for "Venus" (378 hits!) and "Venusian/s" (25/5 hits) in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (www.isfdb.org).”
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“It is possible to perform a title keyword search or browse by legal topic.”
“For example, I did a title keyword search using “internet” and “law” at this site and uncovered, among other things, the following recent thesis, available in PDF:”
“Optional — When you create a CVC, the keyword is available to configure, but you do not have to enter a value.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘keyword’.
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key phrases/words
how key is used
key-stringed, key tonality, key-winding, key-word, key-trumpet, key-system, key-tail, key-signature, key-stop, key stage, key-shot, key stage 2 and 112 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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SEO/SEM
copywriter, thematic, semantic, keyword, key phrase, density, backlink, link, sitemap, google, yahoo, search and 32 more...
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eltyone's Words
undo, keyword, explanatory, without, wild, picture, scene, fireplace
Tweets
Looking for tweets for keyword.
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