keywordn.

Brit.

/ˈkiːwəːd/, U.S.

/ˈkiˌwərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: key n.¹, word n.

Etymology: < key n.¹ + word n.In later use in sense 1b the first element may be understood as a use of key adj.

a. A word that serves as the key to a cipher or code.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > key

countercipher1598

key1605

code book1703

keyword1762

cipher-key1834

key card1841

cipher1885

1762 Jachin & Boaz (Jerusalem Lodge) 45 If they could not find a Key-Word about him, it was lost, for there were only three in the World to whom it was known.

1777 J. Lovell Let. in B. Franklin Papers (1984) XXIV. 87 You may use the Alphabet, and, by one of your ten thousand ready devices, may communicate to me a new Key-Word.

1854 C. Forster Monuments Assyria in One Primeval Lang. 40 The key-word of these inscriptions.

1871 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 336/1 The difficulty of this cipher is greatly enhanced if, instead of a key-word, a series of letters not forming a word be used as the key.

1942 Pop. Sci. Nov. 86 Here a message has been put into one of the ‘multiple-alphabet’ ciphers with the keyword ‘SPY’.

2009 S. R. Ellis in J. R. Vacca Computer & Information Security Handbk. ii. 31/1 A larger sample with such a weak keyword would easily be cracked.

b. A word or idea that serves as a solution or explanation for something; a word, expression, or concept of particular importance or significance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]

keyeOE

undoinga1330

expositiona1340

declarationc1374

declaringc1374

clearingc1380

expoundingc1380

explanationa1382

interpretation1382

exploitingc1390

unfolding1483

explicating1531

explication1537

clearance?1548

elucidation1570

explaining1576

manifestation1576

untwining1577

illustration1581

untwisting1591

eviscerating1599

unclouding1601

enodation1603

opening1611

dilucidation1615

unsnarling1640

declarement1646

enucleation1650

illumination1656

dilucidatinga1660

luciferousness1665

clarifying1677

unravelling1713

disentanglement1751

exegesis1770

disambiguation1827

evisceration1831

keyword1848

clarificationa1866

exponence1880

exponency1880

straightening1900

demystification1964

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > essential or central

pitheOE

effectc1405

substancec1450

kernel1556

nick1577

keystone1641

vitals1657

narrow1702

secret1738

ganglion1828

nub1833

primality1846

keyword1848

knub1864

buzzword1946

in word1964

1848 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 7 It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the key-word of Rome's success.

1885 G. S. Merriam Life & Times S. Bowles II. xxxiv. 66 The key-word of life is ‘Thy will be done’.

1907 Advance 26 Dec. 802/2 Believe is a key word in the writings of the apostle John.

1926 Encycl. Brit. II. 822/1 As to shop detail, the keyword to mass production is simplicity.

1980 InfoWorld 24 Nov. 4/2 The low-cost microcomputer is a triumph of electronic technology. The key word here is electronic.

2004 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Weekend section) 20 Confidence is the keyword in the Mexican resort town of Cancun.

2. A word (usually one of several) chosen to indicate or represent the content of a larger document, text, record, etc., in an index, catalogue, or database. Later also: any word entered as a search term in a database or search engine. Cf. keyword-in-context adj. at Phrases.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word

hard word1533

household word1574

magic word1581

grandam words1598

signal word1645

book worda1670

wordie1718

my whole1777

foundling1827–38

keyword1827

Mesopotamia1827

thought-word1844

word-symbol1852

nursery word1853

pivot word1865

rattler1865

object word1876

pillow word1877

nonce-word1884

non-word1893

fossil1901

blessed word1910

bogy-word1919

catch-all1922

pseudo-word1929

false friend1931

plus word1939

descriptor1946

meta-word1952

discourse marker1967

shrub2008

1827 Monthly Rev. Apr. 350 A quantity of a writer's text is thrust into the page, far beyond the point at which all connection with the key-word fully terminates.

1864 C. T. Ramage Beautiful Thoughts from Lat. Authors p. ix The first words of each quotation are given in alphabetical order, but the same passage is also given under what he considers to be the key-word.

1920 Special Libraries Dec. 202/2 The alphabetical indexing is fair, one only needs to glance down the key-words at the right-hand side of the page.

1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 82 The system can process documents represented by a set of keywords.

1997 Business Age Sept. 110/1 Most web users seeking specific information..will rely on typing in a few key words and letting a search engine do the rest.

2011 K. Lacy Twitter Marketing for Dummies (ed. 2) xi. 199 Use Twitter's search tool to search for keywords and hashtags in people's conversations.

Phrases

keyword-in-context adj. (attributive) designating an index, concordance, etc., in which keywords are listed alphabetically, preceded and followed by a fixed amount of the immediate context; (later also) designating a format for results from a database or search engine in which a search term is surrounded by some of the immediate context in which it appears (abbreviated KWIC).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [adjective] > relating to a concordance > specific

keyword-in-context1959

1959 H. P. Luhn in IBM Corporation ASDD Rep. RC-127 (title) Keyword-in-context index for technical literature (KWIC index).

1971 Computers & Humanities 6 32 Indices and concordances..can be unlemmatized, like the key-word in context concordance to Livy.

1998 Econ. Hist. Rev. 51 389 Successful searches return selected documents, concordances, or keyword-in-context displays.

2002 L. M. Porter & E. F. Gray G. Flaubert's Madame Bovary 154 The concordance to Madame Bovary..was prepared in the standard keyword-in-context format.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	keyword
释义	keywordn. Brit. /ˈkiːwəːd/, U.S. /ˈkiˌwərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: key n.¹, word n. Etymology: < key n.¹ + word n.In later use in sense 1b the first element may be understood as a use of key adj. 1. a. A word that serves as the key to a cipher or code. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > key countercipher1598 key1605 code book1703 keyword1762 cipher-key1834 key card1841 cipher1885 1762 Jachin & Boaz (Jerusalem Lodge) 45 If they could not find a Key-Word about him, it was lost, for there were only three in the World to whom it was known. 1777 J. Lovell Let. in B. Franklin Papers (1984) XXIV. 87 You may use the Alphabet, and, by one of your ten thousand ready devices, may communicate to me a new Key-Word. 1854 C. Forster Monuments Assyria in One Primeval Lang. 40 The key-word of these inscriptions. 1871 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 336/1 The difficulty of this cipher is greatly enhanced if, instead of a key-word, a series of letters not forming a word be used as the key. 1942 Pop. Sci. Nov. 86 Here a message has been put into one of the ‘multiple-alphabet’ ciphers with the keyword ‘SPY’. 2009 S. R. Ellis in J. R. Vacca Computer & Information Security Handbk. ii. 31/1 A larger sample with such a weak keyword would easily be cracked. b. A word or idea that serves as a solution or explanation for something; a word, expression, or concept of particular importance or significance. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] keyeOE undoinga1330 expositiona1340 declarationc1374 declaringc1374 clearingc1380 expoundingc1380 explanationa1382 interpretation1382 exploitingc1390 unfolding1483 explicating1531 explication1537 clearance?1548 elucidation1570 explaining1576 manifestation1576 untwining1577 illustration1581 untwisting1591 eviscerating1599 unclouding1601 enodation1603 opening1611 dilucidation1615 unsnarling1640 declarement1646 enucleation1650 illumination1656 dilucidatinga1660 luciferousness1665 clarifying1677 unravelling1713 disentanglement1751 exegesis1770 disambiguation1827 evisceration1831 keyword1848 clarificationa1866 exponence1880 exponency1880 straightening1900 demystification1964 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > essential or central pitheOE effectc1405 substancec1450 kernel1556 nick1577 keystone1641 vitals1657 narrow1702 secret1738 ganglion1828 nub1833 primality1846 keyword1848 knub1864 buzzword1946 in word1964 1848 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 7 It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the key-word of Rome's success. 1885 G. S. Merriam Life & Times S. Bowles II. xxxiv. 66 The key-word of life is ‘Thy will be done’. 1907 Advance 26 Dec. 802/2 Believe is a key word in the writings of the apostle John. 1926 Encycl. Brit. II. 822/1 As to shop detail, the keyword to mass production is simplicity. 1980 InfoWorld 24 Nov. 4/2 The low-cost microcomputer is a triumph of electronic technology. The key word here is electronic. 2004 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Weekend section) 20 Confidence is the keyword in the Mexican resort town of Cancun. 2. A word (usually one of several) chosen to indicate or represent the content of a larger document, text, record, etc., in an index, catalogue, or database. Later also: any word entered as a search term in a database or search engine. Cf. keyword-in-context adj. at Phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word hard word1533 household word1574 magic word1581 grandam words1598 signal word1645 book worda1670 wordie1718 my whole1777 foundling1827–38 keyword1827 Mesopotamia1827 thought-word1844 word-symbol1852 nursery word1853 pivot word1865 rattler1865 object word1876 pillow word1877 nonce-word1884 non-word1893 fossil1901 blessed word1910 bogy-word1919 catch-all1922 pseudo-word1929 false friend1931 plus word1939 descriptor1946 meta-word1952 discourse marker1967 shrub2008 1827 Monthly Rev. Apr. 350 A quantity of a writer's text is thrust into the page, far beyond the point at which all connection with the key-word fully terminates. 1864 C. T. Ramage Beautiful Thoughts from Lat. Authors p. ix The first words of each quotation are given in alphabetical order, but the same passage is also given under what he considers to be the key-word. 1920 Special Libraries Dec. 202/2 The alphabetical indexing is fair, one only needs to glance down the key-words at the right-hand side of the page. 1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 82 The system can process documents represented by a set of keywords. 1997 Business Age Sept. 110/1 Most web users seeking specific information..will rely on typing in a few key words and letting a search engine do the rest. 2011 K. Lacy Twitter Marketing for Dummies (ed. 2) xi. 199 Use Twitter's search tool to search for keywords and hashtags in people's conversations. Phrases keyword-in-context adj. (attributive) designating an index, concordance, etc., in which keywords are listed alphabetically, preceded and followed by a fixed amount of the immediate context; (later also) designating a format for results from a database or search engine in which a search term is surrounded by some of the immediate context in which it appears (abbreviated KWIC). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [adjective] > relating to a concordance > specific keyword-in-context1959 1959 H. P. Luhn in IBM Corporation ASDD Rep. RC-127 (title) Keyword-in-context index for technical literature (KWIC index). 1971 Computers & Humanities 6 32 Indices and concordances..can be unlemmatized, like the key-word in context concordance to Livy. 1998 Econ. Hist. Rev. 51 389 Successful searches return selected documents, concordances, or keyword-in-context displays. 2002 L. M. Porter & E. F. Gray G. Flaubert's Madame Bovary 154 The concordance to Madame Bovary..was prepared in the standard keyword-in-context format. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1762
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