Signature Features Of Music

• 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

• an instance or single occasion for some event

• a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something

• an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)

• a suitable moment

• the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

• a person's experience on a particular occasion

• a reading of a point in time as given by a clock

• the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

• rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

• the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

• measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

• assign a time for an activity or event

• set the speed, duration, or execution of

• regulate or set the time of

• adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time

• anything regarded as making something unclean