keyhole

«keyhole» in Mova's school dictionary: the small hole in a lock where you put the key — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a keyhole, keyholes); adjective (keyhole — keyhole surgery)

meaning for a pupil

1) A keyhole is the small hole in a lock where you put the key. tree →

2) Keyhole surgery is an operation done through very small cuts, using a camera. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, the keyhole is part of a door lock; in stories characters peep through keyholes to spy, which is not polite. In science and health, keyhole surgery uses tiny cameras so patients heal faster. Phrases: look through the keyhole, put the key in the keyhole, keyhole surgery.

examples

• He put the key in the keyhole and turned it. tree →
• Alice looked through the keyhole and saw a beautiful garden. tree →
• Light shone through the keyhole. tree →
• It is rude to listen at the keyhole. tree →
• Grandpa had keyhole surgery on his knee. tree →
• The keyhole was too dark to find in the night. tree →
• Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole. tree →

note

One word, countable: keyholes. Peeping or listening at keyholes is spying on people's privacy.

In the corpora

• Dad caught Ben at the keyhole looking at hidden presents and simply moved them somewhere else.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «keyhole» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.