keyword

See also: key-word and key word

English

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Etymology

key +‎ word

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Noun

keyword (plural keywords)

  1. (cryptography) Any word used as the key to a code.
    Synonyms: password, passcode
    Coordinate term: keyphrase
  2. (information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
  3. (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
    Hypernym: keystring
    Coordinate term: keyphrase
  4. (programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
    • 1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 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.
  5. (linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
    Coordinate terms: collocation, statistically improbable phrase

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

keyword (third-person singular simple present keywords, present participle keywording, simple past and past participle keyworded)

  1. (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.

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Italian

Noun

keyword m (invariable)

  1. (computing) keyword
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