What's the difference between fort and keep?

Fort


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
  • (2) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (3) A new long-acting nitrate, Isomak R (forte), has been shown to be an effective antianginal drug; it increases physical stress tolerance, prevents attacks of angina of effort or angina at rest, significantly decreases pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure, peripheral arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance.
  • (4) It was shown that six pesticides induced a statistically significant increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations: Bi 58 EC, Metasystox (I) forte, Sadofos 30, Nogos 50 EC, Foschlor 25 and Thiodan 35.
  • (5) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (6) The Bears put together a 74 yard drive capped off by a Matt Forte run to give the Bears a one point lead... rather than "run" as I said earlier.
  • (7) Experience with 240 midface (Le Fort and zygoma) fractures in multiple trauma patients has emphasized that superior aesthetic results are obtained by immediate extended open reduction with primary bone grafting.
  • (8) In 12 patients with coronary heart disease and increased left ventricular filling pressure the pressure lowering effect of an oral long-acting nitroglycerin preparation (Sustac-Retard forte) was investigated at rest (n = 6) and during exercise (n = 6).
  • (9) Also the fat absorption with Creon was superior to that with Pancrex V Forte.
  • (10) The system involves a description of the highest level of Le Fort fracture on each side, a description of the fragment that carries the maxillary dentition, and a description of accompanying nasoethmoidal or mandibular fractures.
  • (11) A double-blind randomized study to compare the plasma cortisol values at both 9.00 a.m. and 12 midnight following topical application fo 10 g daily for 7 days of either diflucortolone valerate 0.3% (Nerisone Forte) ointment or clobetasol propionate 0.05% (Dermovate) ointment in 20 hospital inpatients suffering from severe psoriasis, showed that clinically both compounds behaved as potent, highly active topical preparations and caused rapid clinical improvement.
  • (12) In 2010, while he was based at Fort Worth in Texas, he was arrested after discharging a firearm.
  • (13) Hylak forte proved to be effective in the therapy of enteritis in infants; the period of excretion of salmonella was significantly reduced.
  • (14) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
  • (15) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
  • (16) Sawyer, William D. (U.S. Army Medical Unit, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.
  • (17) In 1985 the families of 137 passengers killed when a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport stayed in a secluded hotel while waiting for the victims' bodies to be retrieved and identified.
  • (18) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
  • (19) Le Fort I and sagittal split osteotomies were associated with a mean decrease in MIO of 28%, while Le Fort I and vertical subcondylar osteotomies had a mean decrease of 9%.
  • (20) Fort McMurray is the hub of Alberta’s oil sands region .

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.