(n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
(n.) Fig.: The whole ship.
(n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
(n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
(n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
(v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
(v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
(2) As they were leaving, he told the court, D’Souza took charge of Keeling and asked Sagar to leave the pair alone.
(3) But before you keel over in shock she's back on form arguing that the government use the money spent on overseas aid to boost investment in prisons.
(4) In that time, MacKeown has had to endure tastleless coverage of her daughter’s drug use and sex life, and close scrutiny of her own lifestyle, and of her decision to allow Keeling to travel alone to Anjuna while the family toured a neighbouring state.
(5) Because we know how even-keeled and slow-to-anger people are during those types of situations.
(6) This bar is only a couple of miles from where the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found five years ago.
(7) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
(8) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
(9) This instrument will allow endoscopic insertion of sutures for lateralization of a paralyzed vocal cord or for fixation of endoscopically inserted stents or keels in laryngotracheal stenosis.
(10) In a rare case of simultaneous glottic and supraglottic webbing a tantalum keel, as described by McNaught, and a silcone elastomer keel, as described by Montgomery, were placed simultaneously via laryngofissure.
(11) Willetts has appointed Dame Janet Finch, a former vice-chancellor of Keele University, to sit down with academics and publishers to work out how an open-access scheme for publicly-funded research might function in the UK.
(12) Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed in the waters of popular Anjuna beach in February 2008.
(13) Professor Peter Styles, professor of applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University, said the find could supply the UK for decades.
(14) In chickens he found NCD (pseudo-fowlpest) and in ducklings a mortal disease which the author then called 'keeling disease' but which he many years later, recognized as virus hepatitis.
(15) Analysis of the 12-wk pooled data from both cage and floor groups indicated the occurrence of isometric growth of the shank and breast in G1 and of the breast only in G2 and allometric growth of the thigh and keel in both genotypes.
(16) An endoscopic technique using a Teflon keel which has been successful in properly selected cases is presented.
(17) Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer.
(18) I did not need O-levels to lead, to have judgment, to make decisions and to be decided.” Nevertheless, in later life he would serve several universities, as pro-chancellor of Keele, then chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan and first chancellor of Chester.
(19) I kept falling asleep during morning session, keeling over into the person next to me.
(20) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.
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.