keep
IPA: kˈip
noun
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
- (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- A surname.
verb
- To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To hold the status of something.
- To maintain possession of.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to.
- To restrain.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
- (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
- To continue.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
- (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
- (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
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Examples of "keep" in Sentences
- Give your video a title keep it short and include the celebrity's name
- In case of falling into the water, the chief thing to do is to try to keep calm and to _keep your hands below your chin_.
- Berwickshire every hind was allowed to keep a few hens; and some of them actually removed for the sake of the _hen's keep_.
- If we are to _be_ in Christ when we are in Ephesus, we need to keep ourselves separate and faithful, and to _keep ourselves_ in
- He returns in haalf an hour with everything I need, and brings back this book which I keep, -- remember, gentlemen, which I _keep_, -- a mark of confidence which in this degen'rate age is refreshin '.
- As far as I am concerned, like the Bonds, keep making the Bourne films and we’ll judge the quality, even a bad one will be better than most of the trash released nowadays..please make more..keep them coming!
- The comments on MSNBC about Mr. Romney seemed to have been plucked straight from the Web site AMERICAblog, which noted on Tuesday that in the 1920s, K.K.K. literature employed the phrase "keep America American."
- III. i.7 (62,9) [I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep] [W: would reck] The meaning seems plainly this, that _none but fools would_ wish _to keep life_; or, _none but fools would keep_ it, if choice were allowed.
- Once, when I was very weak with sea-sickness and wanted to keep down a dinner which I had just eaten, they insisted upon it, that, if I would only put into my mouth a piece of fat pork, and _keep it there_, my dinner would stay in its place.
- Very emphatical, f Gum (minx aifto&a, kttpt With aU keeping, q.d. keep, keep* fit dottbfc guilds, yout* fceam wtll be gone elfe; And this vehemency of eifcfeffi* on, with * hictf the duty is urged, plainty implied ho*r difflciUf it is to keep our hearts, and how dangerous to let them go. v
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