Key and Steady

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Key adjective - Coming before all others in importance.

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Steady and key are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Steady" instead an adjective "Key".

Nearby Words: keyed, keyboard, keying

Steady adjective - Firm in one's allegiance to someone or something.

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Key and steady are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Key" instead an adjective "Steady".

P.D.Q. Bach's "Song to Celia" (a parody of Ben Johnson's eponymous poem and the song based on it, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"), has a none-too-steady chorus attempting modulations in various places and picking fights over the key with the accompanist.

Source: Truck Driver's Gear Change
It also ended up kicking off the whole plot of the pilot episode: Torchwood operative Susie Costello had a pet theory that it held the key to immortality, and was attempting to learn more about it... which, unfortunately, required a steady supply of fresh corpses.

Source: Interrogating the Dead
Stephen's Cross has very lumpy time signatures, featuring 9-beat melodic phrases complicated by drums that plod along at their own steady 4 beats a measure and a dropped beat or two in key spots, and a relatively subtle shift to 6/8 in the instrumental sections.

Source: Music / Vienna Teng

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