Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word that serves as a key to a code or cipher.
- noun A significant or descriptive word.
- noun A word used as a reference point for finding other words or information.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word which serves as a key, guide, or explanation to the meaning, use, or pronunciation of other words, or to other matters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word used as an entry point into an index which serves to identify files, records, texts, or other data containing the key or some related word, such as a synonym. It is a type of key{15}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any
word used as thekey to acode - noun information science Any word used in a
reference work tolink to other words or otherinformation . - noun programming A
reserved word used toidentify a specificcommand ,function etc. - noun linguistics Any word that occurs in a
text more often than normal. - verb transitive To
tag with keywords, as for example to facilitatesearching .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
- noun a word that is used as a pattern to decode an encrypted message
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can go as far as do dynamic keyword insertion by putting in placeholders into your text such as \% keyword\% or even a long nonsense string that'll never get used in the actual text such as
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Today, a search on the Internet about the Chinese search is a big problem for the Chinese word is never easy, unlike Latin spaces between each word separated, so PunBB or other forum on Chinese The poor search results is normal, the current forum for the various Chinese search only for a simple keyword search % keyword%, and the PunBB search on the word of Chinese extraction null and void and will only serve to extract a large number of sentences, and search results Is not accurate.
PunBB Forums 2010
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For example, when you google the phrase "keyword summarization," you get more than 262 million results.
Wired Top Stories Christina Bonnington 2011
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I will use the term keyword argument to cover both named arguments and flags.
Planet Python 2010
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In that book, Dan uses the term keyword hierarchy to explain about grouping your content and putting in a hierarchical manner.
BiggerPockets Forums edwinreiloans4u 2009
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In addition, Keyword Research allows us to identify how competitive a keyword is and, consequently, the work involved to achieve a top 10 result on any Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Free Keyword Research 2009
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It is possible to perform a title keyword search or browse by legal topic.
SOQUIJ Updates Its Legal Newsletters Database Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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It is possible to perform a title keyword search or browse by legal topic.
Archive 2009-04-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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One way to gauge potential material would be to do a title keyword search for "Venus" (378 hits!) and "Venusian/s" (25/5 hits) in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (www.isfdb.org).
Video of Ray Bradbury’s short story “Usher II” set to Radiohead’s song “Karma Police” Paul 2009
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For example, I did a title keyword search using “internet” and “law” at this site and uncovered, among other things, the following recent thesis, available in PDF:
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