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Definition keep
Etymology
From Middle English kepen (“to keep, guard, look after, watch”), from Old English c?pan (“to seize, hold, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *k?pijan? (compare West Frisian kypje (“to look”)), variant of *kapjan? (compare Old English capian (“to look”), Dutch kapen (“to seize, snatch”), Danish kope (“to gawk, stare”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ab-, *??b- (“to look after”) (compare Lithuanian ž?bti (“to eat reluctantly”), Russian ??????? (zabóta, “care, worry”)).
Verb
keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept)
- To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
- To maintain possession of.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of.
- (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 maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (heading, 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; not to swerve from or violate.
- (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
Noun
keep (countable and uncountable, plural keeps)
- (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.
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