Keep
[kiːp] or [kip]
Definition
(noun.) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress.
(verb.) maintain by writing regular records; 'keep a diary'; 'maintain a record'; 'keep notes'.
(verb.) retain possession of; 'Can I keep my old stuffed animals?'; 'She kept her maiden name after she married'.
(verb.) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of; 'He keeps the shop when I am gone'.
(verb.) supply with room and board; 'He is keeping three women in the guest cottage'; 'keep boarders'.
(verb.) keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., 'keep clean'; 'hold in place'; 'She always held herself as a lady'; 'The students keep me on my toes'.
(verb.) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; 'May God keep you'.
(verb.) fail to spoil or rot; 'These potatoes keep for a long time'.
(verb.) hold and prevent from leaving; 'The student was kept after school'.
(verb.) have as a supply; 'I always keep batteries in the freezer'; 'keep food for a week in the pantry'; 'She keeps a sixpack and a week's worth of supplies in the refrigerator'.
(verb.) raise; 'She keeps a few chickens in the yard'; 'he keeps bees'.
(verb.) store or keep customarily; 'Where do you keep your gardening tools?'.
(verb.) maintain for use and service; 'I keep a car in the countryside'; 'She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips'.
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To care; to desire.
(v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.
(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.
(v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.
(v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
(v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
(v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
(v. t.) To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book.
(v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
(v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders.
(v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
(v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale.
(v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
(v. t.) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to.
(v. t.) To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent.
(v. t.) To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
(v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach.
(v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired.
(v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
(v. i.) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
(v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day.
(n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
(n.) The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.
(n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse.
(n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle.
(n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
(n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Retain, detain, hold, hold fast.[2]. Preserve, maintain, continue.[3]. Restrain, withhold.[4]. Guard, protect, take care of.[5]. Fulfil, observe, adhere to, be faithful to, be true to, stand by.[6]. Celebrate, honor, solemnize, commemorate, do honor to.[7]. Sustain, support, maintain.
v. n. [1]. Continue, remain.[2]. Stay, abide, lodge, dwell.[3]. Endure, last.
n. Stronghold, donjon.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hold, restrain, retain, detain, guard, preserve, suppress, repress, conceal,tend, support, maintain, conduct, continue, obey, haunt, observe, frequent,celebrate, protect, adhere_to, practise, binder, sustain
ANT:Release, acquit, liberate, send, dismiss, {[betrnj^]?}, neglect, divulge,discard, abandon, intermit, disobey, disregard, transgress, forsake, desert,{[oblivate]?}
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Definition
v.t. to have the care of: to guard: to maintain: to manage: to have in one's service: to hold for one's own use or enjoyment: to remain in: to adhere to: to practise: not to lose: to maintain hold upon: to restrain from departure: to preserve in a certain state: to maintain: to fulfill.—v.i. to remain in any position or state: to remain fresh: to last or endure: to continue: to adhere: to have rooms at college (Cambridge):—-pr.p. keep′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. kept.—n. that which keeps or protects: subsistence: food: the innermost and strongest part of a castle the donjon: a stronghold.—ns. Keep′er an attendant manager owner: a gamekeeper: socket guard-ring; Keep′ership office of a keeper; Keep′ing care: custody: charge: (Shak.) maintenance support: just proportion harmony: (paint.) due proportion of light and shade; Keep′ing-room a sitting-room parlour; Keep′sake something given to be kept for the sake of the giver—the name used often to be applied to the annuals or sumptuous gift-books so much in vogue about 1830.—Keep an act to hold an academical disputation; Keep an eye on Keep company chapel counsel distance hours house the peace &c. (see the nouns); Keep a term (see Term); Keep at it to persist in anything; Keep back to withhold: keep down to repress (see also Dark); Keep body and soul together to maintain life; Keep down to restrain; Keep from to abstain from: to remain away from; Keep going in a thing to keep one supplied with it; Keep in to prevent from escaping: to confine a pupil in the schoolroom after school hours: to conceal: to restrain; Keep in with to maintain the confidence or friendship of some one; Keep off to hinder from approaching or making an attack; Keep one's countenance to preserve a calm appearance hiding one's emotions; Keep one's hand in to retain one's skill by means of constant practice; Keep the breath to cool one's porridge to confine attention to one's own affairs; Keep the powder dry to keep one's energies ready for action; Keep to to stick closely to: to confine one's self to; Keep under to hold down in restraint; Keep up to retain one's strength or spirit: to support prevent from falling: to continue to prevent from ceasing: to maintain in good condition.
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Examples
- Perhaps you had better go after my friends at once, because the weather is warm, and I can not 'keep' long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I wish, Mr. Yeobright, you could give me something to keep that once belonged to her--if you don't mind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I say, said Legree, stamping and whistling to the dogs, wake up, some of you, and keep me company! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Why, the man was weary of you, and would have jilted you, but that Dobbin forced him to keep his word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hush, hush, ma'am; pray keep yourself quiet,' replied the bodyguard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It's simmering now, so I hope he'll keep out of my way, returned Jo, biting her lips as she glowered at Fred from under her big hat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Well, I kept my knowledge to myself, and waited to see what would come of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Others again kept out of the way, hoping to escape either alternative. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- So we kept our watch together in silence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Because, said I, his is an uncommon character, and he has resolutely kept himself outside the circle, Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Her father rose with her, and kept her hand drawn through his arm. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The daughter had been found; but only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will have my hands full keeping your neck from beneath the guillotine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Pardon me, Miss Halcombe, he said, still keeping his hand over his face, pardon me if I remind you that I have claimed no such right. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Talk about our keeping slaves, as if we did it for our _convenience_, said Marie. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Oh, at six o'clock: he keeps early hours in the country. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Keeps the organ moist, does it, Wegg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I will see the lady who keeps the establishment immediately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But, to be sure, I may not see him; he keeps out of our way evidently. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The gentleman who keeps her is a captain of horse-marines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Or he keeps us, suggested Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Michael keeps a horse that can soon get ahead of most other horses; and he could shoot ahead and let us know, if there were any danger. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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