CENTRALS Synonyms

• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

• something crucial for explaining

• pitch of the voice

• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

• a kilogram of a narcotic drug

• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court

• a list of answers to a test

• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access

• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

• serving as an essential component

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• provide with a key

• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

• regulate the musical pitch of

• harmonize with or adjust to

• in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• serving as an essential component

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• basic and fundamental

• being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• anything indispensable

• absolutely necessary; vitally necessary

• of the greatest importance

• of or relating to a focus

• having or localized centrally at a focus

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• any very large body of (salt) water

• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

• most important element

• of force; of the greatest possible intensity

• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic

• most important element

• of or being the essential or basic part

• being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order

• (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

• the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order

• a variable color averaging a vivid red

• crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male

• serving as an essential component

• chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another

• a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)

• the act of changing one thing for another thing

• the act of giving something in return for something received

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)

• the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:

• (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop

• (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value

• give to, and receive from, one another

• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• exchange a penalty for a less severe one

• serving as an essential component

• having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication