Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to:
Common uses
- Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed to encode or decode a message
- Key (instrument), a component of a musical instrument
- Key (lock), a device used to operate a lock
- Key (map), a guide to a map's symbology
- Key (music), the scale of a piece of music
- Key on a typewriter or computer keyboard
Arts, entertainment and media
Films
- The Key (1934 film), an American pre-Code film
- The Key (1958 film), starring William Holden and Sophia Loren
- The Key, also known as Odd Obsession, a 1959 Japanese comedy drama
- The Key (1961 film), a Soviet animated feature
- The Key (1965 film), a Croatian omnibus film
- The Key (1971 film), a Czechoslovakian drama
- The Key (1983 film), an Italian erotic film
- The Key (1987 film), an Iranian film
- The Key (2007 film), a French thriller film
- Key (film), a 2011 Telugu-language psychological thriller
- The Key (2014 film), an American erotic drama film
Literature
- The Key (Curley novel), by Marianne Curley, 2005
- The Key (Elfgren and Strandberg novel), by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren, 2013
- The Key (Tanizaki novel), by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1956
- "The Key" (short story), by Isaac Asimov, 1966
- The Key: A Startling Enquiry into the Riddle of Man's Past, a 1969 book by John Philip Cohane
- The Key, a magazine published by Kappa Kappa Gamma
- "The Key", a short story by Satyajit Ray
- The Keys (journal), of the League of Coloured Peoples founded in 1933
Music
See also: § Common usesBands
- The Keys (English band), 1979–1983
- The Keys, a Welsh band successor to Murry the Hump
Albums
- Key (Meredith Monk album), 1971
- Key (Son, Ambulance album), 2004
- The Key (Joan Armatrading album), 1983
- The Key (Vince Gill album), 1998
- The Key (Nocturnus album), 1990
- The Key (Operation: Mindcrime album), 2015
- Keys (album), by Alicia Keys, 2021
- The Keys (EP), by GWSN, 2020
Songs
- "The Key" (Speech Debelle song), 2009
- "The Key" (Matt Goss song), 1995
- "The Key", a song by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool from the 2010 album The Golden Year
- "Key", a song by Band-Maid from the 2014 album Maid in Japan
- "The Key", a 2010 song by Edita Abdieski
- "Key", a song by C418 from the 2011 album Minecraft – Volume Alpha
- "The Keys", a song by Crazy Town from the 2015 album The Brimstone Sluggers
- "Key", a song by Porter Robinson from the 2017 EP Virtual Self
Television
- "The Key", a Code Lyoko episode, 2005
- "The Key" (Fear the Walking Dead), 2020
- "The Key", an episode of Prison Break (season 1), 2006
- "The Key" (The Walking Dead), 2018
- "The Key", an episode of Yes, Prime Minister, 1986
- "The Keys" (Seinfeld), a 1992 TV episode
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media
- Key (character), a supervillain in the DC Comics universe
- Key, the title character of Key the Metal Idol, a Japanese original video animation series
- The Key, a painting by Jackson Pollock
People
- Key (surname), including a list of people with the surname
- Keys (surname), including a list of people with the surname
- Key (entertainer) (born 1991), South Korean entertainer
Places
United States
Elsewhere
- The Keys, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Rural Municipality of Keys No. 303, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Key, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
- Key Island, Tasmania, Australia
- The Key, New Zealand, a locality of Mararoa, New Zealand
Science and technology
See also: § Common uses- Candidate key, or simply a key, in relational database management systems
- Key (engineering), a machine element used to connect a rotating machine element to a shaft
- KeY, a tool is used in formal verification of Java programs
- The Key (smartcard), a British smartcard for public transport ticketing
- .key, file extension used by Keynote presentation software
- Identification key, used to identify biological entities
- Telegraph key, or Morse key, a specialized electrical switch
Sports
- Key (basketball), a marked area on a basketball court
- Frederick Keys, an American baseball team
Other uses
- Key (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
- Key Airlines, an American former airline
- Key School, in Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.
- Keys, a truce term used in western Scotland
- Amazon Key, a service by Amazon Prime
- House of Keys, the lower branch of the parliament of the Isle of Man
- Samara (fruit), or key, a type of fruit
- Yeoman Warders Club in the Tower of London, or "The Keys"
- KeyBank, an American regional bank based in Cleveland, Ohio
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Key
- All pages with titles containing Key
- Keay, a surname
- Keays, a surname
- Keyes (disambiguation)
- Keying (disambiguation)
- Qi (disambiguation)
- Quay (disambiguation)
- Keyboard instrument
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