In "the key to understanding the problem", the part after to is a noun phrase, not a verb phrase. To is a preposition there. In "the key to unlock the door", to is part of the infinitive; of course you can call it a verb phrase if you must, but that's unnecessarily misleading. It looks like you opted for the term only to have a convenient (but ...

2011年2月9日 · A key on the other hand, conveys the meaning of thematic information. Thematic information would be something like an area being colored in a certain way to identify a statistical attribute (e.g. a choropleth map that shows California colored blue and Texas colored red to communicate political affiliation).

2017年10月1日 · If you have one key, then it should be answer key. However, when you have a set of keys, and you are referring to the set, rather than individual keys, you should refer to answer-keys. You need to differentiate between references to the set, and references to individual members of a set. For some situations, you need to refer to the whole set.

2020年4月26日 · An answer key is a key to the answers (to a test or exercise). It's usually a copy of the test or exercise with the instructor's idea of the best possible answers written in. A key answer is an answer that is key. That is, it's the most important of several possible answers to a …

2015年6月27日 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely supported than that of the other symbols.

2018年10月15日 · An audible feedback provided when a key is pressed. It may be adjustable by the user. This term is mostly used when the sound is generated artificially, to make the feedback from computer keyboards seem more like mechanical typewriters (the sound there came from the typebar hitting the platen).

2022年8月18日 · She played a key role in campaigning for equal opportunities in the workplace. So if you really want to keep your as instead of of, your sentence will read much better if you add an adjective modifying role: X also plays a(n) important/significant/key role as (job-function)

@Andy Your comment is perfectly valid, and would be even better if we were looking for an opposite instead of wondering why language is the way it is, or dealing with keys (OP's question uses buttons, which may stay depressed or otherwise), or posted on this thread almost 10 years ago, or posted on one of the many programming sites.

2014年4月5日 · 1973 U.S. Patent 3,920,926 The pad provides keys for numerals 0 to 9, while..the octothorp (#) key generates a command to send the contents of the memory into the telephone line. (The patent is assigned to Nortel Networks.) It suggests as the origin. The term was reportedly coined in the early 1960s by Don Macpherson, an employee of Bell ...

2011年2月2日 · As an additional note, in the Portable Character Set, both symbolic names (<slash>, <solidus>) share the same glyph "/" (UCS: <U002F>) with the same description: SOLIDUS. -- from: The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 edition - 6.1 Portable Character Set -- and from what I know, JSON per JSON.org describes the character as …