Keep

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

   “to keep silence;  to keep possession”

2. fiil To remain faithful to a given promise or word.

   “to keep one's word;  to keep one's promise”

3. fiil To maintain possession of.

   “I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.”

4. fiil To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.

   “I keep my specimens under glass to protect them.”

5. fiil To record transactions, accounts, or events in.

   “I used to keep a diary.”

6. fiil To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
7. fiil To remain in; to be confined to.

   “Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…].”

8. fiil To restrain.

   “I keep my pet gerbil away from my brother.”

9. fiil To watch over, look after, guard, protect.

   “May the Lord keep you from harm.”

10. fiil To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).

    “He kept a mistress for over ten years.”

11. fiil To raise; to care for.

    “He has been keeping orchids since retiring.”

12. fiil To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).

    “I know that it's a secret / And that I gotta keep it / But I want the lights on / Yeah, I want the lights on”

13. fiil To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.

    “like a pedant that keeps a school”

14. fiil To have habitually in stock for sale.
15. fiil To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.

    “She kept to her bed while the fever lasted.”

16. fiil To continue.

    “I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail.”

17. fiil To remain edible or otherwise usable.

    “Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.”

18. fiil To remain in a state.

    “The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still.”

19. fiil To have rooms at college, at the University of Cambridge.
20. fiil To wait for, keep watch for.

    “And thenne whan the damoysel knewe certaynly that he was not syre launcelot / thenne she took her leue and departed from hym / And thenne syre Trystram rode pryuely vnto the posterne where kepte hym la beale Isoud / and there she made hym good chere and thanked god of his good spede”

21. isim The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
22. isim The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.

    “He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.”

23. isim The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

    “to be in good keep”

24. isim A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
25. isim The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.

    “So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght[…].”

26. isim That which is kept in charge; a charge.

    “Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.”

27. isim A mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations).

    “My Darling Girl, In London the other day I heard a piece of news which may amuse you. The French girl who shot her so-called Egyptian prince and is going to be tried for murder, is the fancy woman who was the Prince's 'keep' in Paris during the war […]”

28. özel isim A surname.