keyhole
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- noun
- /ˈkiːhoʊl/
:
ojo de la cerradura
- She carefully inserted the key into the keyhole to unlock the door.
You won't even look from the keyhole and you won't open the door.
- You won't even look from the keyhole and you won't open the door.
- It's like, who makes keyholes like that anymore?
- And it has a little kind of keyhole bit at the back with a little gold button here.
- And I felt like at least for a brief moment, I could see through this little keyhole.
- You could see a faint cut out of where I think this is a door, but there's no doorknob, there's no keyhole.
Examples
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The girl pushed the key into the keyhole with two long fingers and turned it, locking the diary.
Fiction book (1998) -
I saw you through the keyhole.
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The key is in the keyhole on the other side.
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By looking into it, Will can see the keyhole on the other side of the door.
Fiction book (1996) -
As she gets closer, she sees a keyhole carved into the ice.
Fiction book (1993) -
The bright scratch at the keyhole indicates a lock recently picked.
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On her next visit to the old mansion, she found the second keyhole in her grandfather's old secretary desk.
Fiction book (2000) -
Slides it in through the keyhole and activates the tiny mechanism.
Fiction book (1999) -
To get back here, you flip up the Aston Martin badge in back, as you can see, and then you insert the key into the keyhole behind the Aston Martin logo.
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My father was an Air Force aviator who went to work for Martin Marietta on contracts for the ClA and the Air Force, namely the Titan lllC which put out the ClA's Keyhole spy satellites.
Compounds
- US
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6.8
A small hand tool with a long narrow blade for cutting tight curves and holes in wood or drywall
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Etymology
Keyhole comes from the two simple words key and hole, meaning 'a hole for a key'. So, a keyhole is the small hole in a lock where you put the key to open or close a door.