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# keyhole

«keyhole» in Mova's school dictionary: **the small hole in a lock where you put the key** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a keyhole, keyholes); adjective (keyhole — keyhole surgery)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A keyhole is the small hole in a lock where you put the key. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#m1)

2) Keyhole surgery is an operation done through very small cuts, using a camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, the keyhole is part of a door lock; in stories characters peep through keyholes to spy, which is not polite. In science and health, keyhole surgery uses tiny cameras so patients heal faster. Phrases: look through the keyhole, put the key in the keyhole, keyhole surgery.

### examples

- He put the key in the keyhole and turned it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x1)
- Alice looked through the keyhole and saw a beautiful garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x2)
- Light shone through the keyhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x3)
- It is rude to listen at the keyhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x4)
- Grandpa had keyhole surgery on his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x5)
- The keyhole was too dark to find in the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x6)
- Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/#x7)

### note

One word, countable: keyholes. Peeping or listening at keyholes is spying on people's privacy.

### In the corpora

- [Dad caught Ben at the keyhole looking at hidden presents and simply moved them somewhere else.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «keyhole» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keyhole/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.