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US
/ˈkiˌstoʊn/
]
[ UK /kˈiːstəʊn/ ]
[ UK /kˈiːstəʊn/ ]
NOUN
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a central cohesive source of support and stability
faith is his anchor
he is the linchpin of this firm
the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money - the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
How To Use keystone In A Sentence
- They can also question peers and learn how asking for and giving assistance to one another are keystones to academic success.
- The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
- In short, the monad was the keystone of Bruno's all-embracing uni - versal scheme. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Li, who recently presented her results at the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, will begin trials of Isorhy in rodents later this year.
- But Pennsylvania's so critical in presidential politics, it's fitting that it be called the keystone state. CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2004
- Naturalistic animals were carved on misericords in the early 14th century, and individualized facial features appeared on the small human heads that decorated keystones and arch mouldings.
- An archway's most important stone is the keystone, the wedge-shaped piece of rock at its apex.
- The three lowest horizontal bands of the lower portico's elegantly rusticated facade frame ten light and ventilation shafts for the basement, a flat keystone resting above each of the nearly square openings.
- The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
- The building features window keystones, coloured tiles, and heavy overhanging cornices.