Keyword vs Watchword - What's the difference?
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Any word used as the key to a code.
(information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
(programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.
* 1982 , Popular Computing (volume 1, issues 9-12, page 113)
(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.
To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 12, author=Philip Gefter, title=Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos, work=New York Times
, passage=Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording , or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers. }}
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a prearranged reply to the challenge of a sentry or a guard; a password or signal by which friends can be known from enemies
a word used as a motto, as expressive of a principle or rule of action; a maxim, byword
* 1919 , :
a rallying cry
As nouns the difference between keyword and watchword
is that keyword is any word used as the key to a code while watchword is a prearranged reply to the challenge of a sentry or a guard; a password or signal by which friends can be known from enemies.As a verb keyword
is to tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.keyword
English
(wikipedia keyword)Alternative forms
* *Noun
(en noun)- Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword .
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)citation
watchword
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Noun
(en noun)- Atrocities of the most vicious kind were justified by the watchwords : "This is war!" "Might is Right." "Necessity knows no law."