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keyhole
[ kee-hohl ]
noun
- Also called key. Basketball. the area at each end of the court that is bounded by two lines extending from the end line parallel to and equidistant from the sidelines and terminating in a circle around the foul line.
adjective
- extremely private or intimate, especially with reference to information gained as if by peeping through a keyhole.
- snooping and intrusive:
a keyhole investigator.
keyhole
/ 藞办颈藧藢丑蓹蕣濒 /
noun
- an aperture in a door or a lock case through which a key may be passed to engage the lock mechanism
- any small aperture resembling a keyhole in shape or function
- a transient column of vapour or plasma formed during the welding or cutting of materials, using high energy beams, such as lasers
Example Sentences
Dressed in a revealing keyhole dress and towering beehive wig, Carpenter comes to Simon Says for the ambience and the chance to dress in drag.
But her pregnancy was too far advanced to allow surgeons to perform standard keyhole surgery.
He had four tiny scars in his eye where healthy copies of the gene were injected into the retina at the back of the eye through keyhole surgery.
A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery.
But keyhole surgery found no sign of it, sparking a "vicious cycle" of surgery and Prostap.
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