keyword

See also: key-word and key word

English

Alternative forms

key word
key-word

Etymology

key +‎ word

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.wɜːd/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈki.wɝd/
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

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
Coordinate term: keyphrase
Hypernym: keystring
(programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
- 1982, Popular Computing (volume 1, issues 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

Translations

word used as a key to a code

Bulgarian: ключ (bg) m (ključ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 關鍵詞／关键词 (zh) (guānjiàncí)
Danish: nøgleord n
Dutch: sleutelwoord (nl) n
Finnish: avainsana (fi)
French: mot-clé (fr) m
German: Stichwort (de), Schlüssel (de) m
Greek: κλειδολέξη f (kleidoléxi), λέξη κλειδί (el) f (léxi kleidí)
Hebrew: מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ‎ (milat - mafteach)
Hungarian: kulcsszó (hu)
Icelandic: markorð n, stikkorð n
Ido: klefovorto
Italian: parola chiave f
Japanese: キーワード (ja) (kīwādo)
Macedonian: клу́чен збор m (klúčen zbor)
Maori: kupu matua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nøkkelord n
Nynorsk: nykelord n, nøkkelord n
Polish: słowo klucz n
Portuguese: palavra-chave (pt) f
Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
Russian: ключево́е сло́во (ru) n (ključevóje slóvo)
Spanish: palabra clave f, clave (es) f
Turkish: anahtar kelime, anahtar sözcük

word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information

Bulgarian: ключова дума f (ključova duma)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 關鍵詞／关键词 (zh) (guānjiàncí)
Danish: opslagsord n, stikord n
Finnish: hakusana (fi)
German: Stichwort (de) n
Hebrew: מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ‎ (hebrew script)
Maori: kupu matua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nøkkelord n
Nynorsk: nykelord n, nøkkelord n
Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
Russian: ключево́е сло́во (ru) n (ključevóje slóvo)
Swedish: nyckelord (sv) n

programming: A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.

Dutch: sleutelwoord (nl) n
German: Schlüsselwort (de) n
Greek: λέξη κλειδί (el) f (léxi kleidí), λέξη-κλειδί (el) f (léxi-kleidí)
Polish: słowo klucz n
Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
Turkish: anahtar söz

(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

Maori: tino kupu

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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

dyework

Italian

Noun

keyword m (invariable)

(computing) keyword