Definitely no.
A certificate is a public key that has been signed by a certificate authority - usually a trust-center.
A keystore is a database for keys and certificates.
Pregunta
I am having trouble with some signing issues, and I've seen many references to certificates, keys and keystores all used in a way that suggests to me that they are all different words for the same thing. Am I right?
Solución
Definitely no.
A certificate is a public key that has been signed by a certificate authority - usually a trust-center.
A keystore is a database for keys and certificates.
Otros consejos
The first paragraph should answer all of your questions :-)
http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html
Certificate is the Encrypted Cert
Key is the Encryption Key used to decrypt the Certificate
Keystore is where all of your known Keys are stored.