The Portuguese word for key is
chave
Gender
The gender of chave is feminine. E.g. a chave.Plural
The plural of chave is chaves.Portuguese Definition
| key | |
| 1. Adjetivo. indispensável | |
| 2. Adjetivo. importante | |
| 3. Substantivo. chave | |
| 4. Substantivo. segredo | |
| 5. Substantivo. explicação, glossário | |
| 6. Substantivo. tecla | |
| 7. Substantivo. (Música) clave | |
| 8. Substantivo. (Basquetebol) garrafão | |
| 9. Verbo. digitar, teclar |
Translations for key and their definitions
| chave | |
| 1. n-f. key (object that opens and closes a lock) | |
| Chave do portão - Key to the gate | |
| 2. n-f. key (object that is inserted into a device and rotated to activate it) | |
| Chave do carro - Car key | |
| 3. n-f. any of several tools designed to turn screws, bolts, nuts, etc., especially a spanner | |
| Chave de fenda/chave de fendas - Screwdriver | |
| 4. n-f. (typography) curly bracket gloss, name of the characters and | |
| Coloque o valor entre chaves. - Put the value between curly brackets. | |
| 5. n-f. (figurative) key (crucial step, element or requirement) | |
| Terminar dentro do prazo é a chave para o sucesso. - Finishing within schedule is the key to success. | |
| 6. n-f. (figurative) keys (free access to something) | |
| 7. n-f. (computing) key; password | |
| 8. n-f. (cryptography) key (a string used to encode or decode text) | |
| 9. n-f. (databases) key (value that identifies a row in a table) | |
| 10. n-f. (musical instruments) a key of a wind instrument | |
| 11. n-f. (musical instruments) tuning lever; tuning wrench; hammer (tool used to tune certain stringed instruments) | |
| 12. n-f. winder (key or knob used to wind a clockwork mechanism) | |
| 13. n-f. (electricity) the switch of a circuit breaker | |
| 14. n-f. (puzzles) the clue to an answer | |
| 15. n-f. (sports) group; pool (in a tournament, a set of players or team who play against one another) | |
| 16. n-f. (martial arts) joint lock | |
| 17. n-f. (rail transport) the mechanism that activates a switch | |
| 18. n-f. (architecture) the keystone of a vault | |
| 19. n-f. music, obsolete synonym of clave | |
| 20. adj. key; crucial; indispensable |
| tecla | |
| 1. n-f. key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard) | |
| 2. n-f. (musical instrument) key (one of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard) | |
| 3. v. verb form of teclar |
| clave | |
| 1. n-f. (music) clef (symbol) | |
| 2. n-f. juggling club |
| garrafão | |
| 1. n-m. augmentative of garrafa | |
| 2. n-m. large jug usually made of plastic or similar materials | |
| 3. n-m. demijohn (large bottle with short neck, typically made of glass) | |
| 4. n-m. (basketball) key (free-throw lane and the circle surrounding the free-throw line) |
| legenda | |
| 1. n-f. (cinema, television, often in plural) subtitle(s) (textual versions of film dialogue) | |
| 2. n-f. caption (title or brief explanation attached to an illustration or cartoon) | |
| 3. n-f. key, legend (textual description of symbols and/or colour codes on a map or graph) | |
| 4. v. verb form of legendar |
| digitar | |
| 1. v. to type (to write text with a keyboard) | |
| Digitei o livro inteiro nesse computador. - I typed the whole book on this computer. | |
| 2. v. to type; to press (to press keys on a keyboard) | |
| Digite 9 para chamar a segurança. - Press 9 to call security. |
| índice | |
| 1. n-m. index (alphabetical list) | |
| 2. n-m. (computing, database) index (data structure to improve the performance of table operations) | |
| 3. n-m. (mathematics) index (raised suffix indicating a power) | |
| 4. n-m. index (number representing a property or ratio) |
| teclar | |
| 1. v. to type | |
| 2. v. to text (to have a conversation through text messages) |
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