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Beep


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That’s the kind of paranoia Domestic Drone Countermeasures (DDC) is hoping to tap into with its new personal drone detection system (PDDS) Kickstarter project – a black box that promises to go beep when a drone flies within 15m of its sensors.
  • (2) So all "conversations" would effectively run like this (I'll translate as we go along): You: Beep ("PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE.")
  • (3) Almost 30 minutes after the protest was due to end taxis still lined the roads around Charing Cross, beeping their horns continuously.
  • (4) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
  • (5) Instead of R-wave synchronous beeping tones during deactivation, double beeping tones were heard.
  • (6) The BEEP program has relevance for pediatric practice in demonstrating a component of health care with greater diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for educational competence in young children.
  • (7) Ireland wasn’t always this way: cars beeping in approval at our giant rainbow flags.
  • (8) The black box, which claims to beep when a non-military drone flies within 15 metres of it, is available on the crowd funding site Kickstarter.
  • (9) Instead of having to think of an amusing Facebook update to impress your friends, each of whom is so consumed with agonising over their own update they're only pretending to pay attention anyway, you simply push a button and transmit a little beep.
  • (10) Google Play (@GooglePlay) First R2D2 was all like "Beep boop beep" and then #BB8 was all like "Beep beep boop."
  • (11) Only a handful of demonstrators are visible, but drivers beep their horns in support as they drive past.
  • (12) Film-buyers flit around, desperately trying to discover which films are beeping on their rivals' radar, and to establish what is being bought and by whom.
  • (13) It begins with a slow beep that fades in over a minute and a half.
  • (14) The only sound is the chirping of late-summer cicadas and the occasional beep of a Geiger counter.
  • (15) The main disadvantage of the technique is the necessity of interruption of the patient's physical activity at the moment of recording indicated by an audible "beep".
  • (16) I'd favour a short, electronic beep, not unlike the noise emitted each time Pac-Man eats a dot.
  • (17) Photograph: AP Nevertheless, celebrations in the Gambia began as soon as Barrow had made his speech, with drivers beeping their horns in elation and people leaning out of car windows, waving their arms, in scenes reminiscent of the outpouring of joy after the election result was announced.
  • (18) Yet nobody testing the system seems to have tried generating the beep in the operator's ear by the electronic equivalent of a coin flip.
  • (19) A policewoman hops to the side, to avoid blocking our shot, and there's a chorus of clicks, whirrs and focus beeps.
  • (20) Mark wrote to me to say: ‘[beep] off, you look like an alien egg’.

Keep


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (4) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
  • (5) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (6) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
  • (7) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (8) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (9) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
  • (10) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (11) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
  • (12) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (13) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
  • (14) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
  • (15) Keeping calcium concentration constant in the medium (0.36 microM), ornithine transport was maximal at 5.0 microM L-arginine and decreased at higher concentrations of arginine.
  • (16) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (17) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (19) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
  • (20) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.

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