(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.
Kip
Definition:
(n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that different neurochemical mechanisms can support LTP on the one hand, and kindling and KIP on the other.
(2) The kinetic parameters for the enzyme were determined at pH 7.4 and 37 degrees C, yielding the following values (microM): Ka, 72; Kia, 11; Kb, 110; Kp, 1600; Kip, 7100; Kq, 170; Kiq, 1100, where a = NADH, b = oxalacetate, p = malate, and q = NAD+.
(3) The drinks were still flowing at the Better Together victory party at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow in the early hours of 19 September when Alistair Darling woke from a brief kip in his room a few floors above the celebration.
(4) Prepare yourself: there will be unrelated questions “It is frustrating to get questions that are unrelated to the job at hand, ” says Kipping-Ruane, who was once asked by a potential employers if he had ever killed anyone.
(5) Comparison of the association rate constants and the normal plasma concentrations of the four inhibitors demonstrates that KIP is ten-times as effective as alpha 2-MG and other two inhibitors are marginally effective in the inhibition of kallikrein.
(6) Absent the federal subsidies, those consumers would face premiums that are 100% to 300% higher,” says Kip Piper , expert on ACA and health insurance exchanges.
(7) However Kip Meek, the Digital Britain consultant charged with doing a deal with the five mobile phone networks in order to push 3G mobile broadband services beyond the 80% of the population already reached, has not yet managed to get a consensus.
(8) The panel will also feature the Universal Music chief executive, Lucian Grainge, who is also part of culture secretary Andy Burnham's creative industries panel; Carphone Warehouse co-founder Charles Dunstone; and Kip Meek, a board member of Ingenious and the Broadband Stakeholder Group, as well as a former Ofcom senior executive.
(9) The payout handed to Sugar, who was appointed at the behest of shareholder Richard Desmond in March 2011 as the venture missed its launch deadlines, dwarfs that of his predecessor Kip Meek, who was paid £97,000 for less than eight months in the role of chairman.
(10) Kip Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom, is understood to be poised to be appointed as the chairman of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat.
(11) YouView had targeted June for the launch but for months its chairman, Kip Meek, who is expected to be replaced by Sugar in an announcement next week, has been conceding the possibility of delays.
(12) From kinetic analysis on the initial stage of the fibrinogen-fibrin conversion catalyzed by thrombin, inhibition constants, Kip, of heparin and heparin analogues were obtained by the turbidimetrical method.
(13) The Inhibitory spectrum of KIP was different from the spectrum of each protease inhibitor in human plasma, but was similar to the spectrum of contrapsin in mouse plasma.
(14) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
(15) KIP is a single chain protein and the apparent molecular weight is estimated to be 59,000 by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(16) These results suggest that KIP is the major kallikrein inhibitor in guinea pig plasma and the proteinase inhibitory spectrum is unique to KIP in spite of the molecular similarity to alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor.
(17) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
(18) Moreover, parents would agree to anything to get those 10-hour-long kips, including pretending to have enhanced attention spans.
(19) In the fibrinogen and thrombin system, heparin and its analogues were observed to act as noncompetitive inhibitors at high concentrations, where the inhibition constant of heparin was 3.91 X 10(-6) M. At low concentrations below 10(-5) M, both heparin and dextran sulphate acted as hyperbolic competitive inhibitors of thrombin, and Kip of heparin was 1.07 X 10(-8) M, which was measured at heparin concentrations below ca.
(20) Ingenious Consulting is chaired by former Ofcom executive board member Kip Meek, who is also a director of the RadioCentre.