keep up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.

   “This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.”

2. fiil To continue with (work, etc).

   “Non obstante the Change of Religion, the Plough-boies, and also the Schooleboies will keep-up and retain their old Ceremonies and Customes and priviledges.”

3. fiil To stay even or ahead.

   “They ran so fast I could hardly keep up.”

4. fiil To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.

   “I always try to keep up with (or "keep up on") current affairs.”

5. fiil To prevent someone from going to bed or to sleep

   “The crying baby kept me up all night”

6. fiil To use capital letters as much as reasonable.