What's the difference between kept and wept?

Kept


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Keep
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Keep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
  • (2) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (3) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (4) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (5) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
  • (6) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
  • (7) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.
  • (8) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
  • (9) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
  • (10) The animals were kept under follow-up observation for one year maximum.
  • (11) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (12) We wanted to return to Kabul, but the violence there just kept getting worse.
  • (13) Cells kept in long-term culture without mitogen but in the presence of IL2 do not express high amounts of IL2R RNA.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) A decrease of absolute synthesis of albumin, no change in that of fibrinogen and an increased fractional synthesis of transferrin were observed 3h after intraperitoneal administration of a pharmacological dose of 5 mg of cortisol to 220g rats in the post-absorptive state and previously kept on a diet with 40% protein.
  • (16) Doses of all medications except antibiotics were kept unchanged during the study.
  • (17) Khan, who has kept a safe distance from the leader during his campaign, later said he did not know why Corbyn was not there to see him signed in.
  • (18) In both media the DNA and protein content of cultures kept for 3-5 days in the presence of 80-800 nM Buserelin and 1 nM oestradiol were 8-27% lower than those of flasks cultured in the presence of oestradiol alone (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
  • (20) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.

Wept


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Weep
  • () imp. & p. p. of Weep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week, he wept as he signed an executive order on gun control .
  • (2) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
  • (3) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
  • (4) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
  • (5) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
  • (6) She wept for another hour before she turned to face me.
  • (7) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
  • (8) In the unsaddling area she wept uncontrollably and hugged her mother, boyfriend and her mentor and fellow team member Carl Hester, who came fifth here.
  • (9) Both Bob and Maureen bowed their heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from the court clerk.
  • (10) Mothers appeared and wept for lost sons and daughters.
  • (11) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
  • (12) He wept openly while being interviewed pitch-side by the same TV Globo reporter (Tino Marcos) who in 2010 looked embarrassed when the keeper started choking on his own tears when prompted to discuss his fluffed attempt to punch a Wesley Sneijder cross which led to the winning goal.
  • (13) The day after the ruling, celebrity chef Paula Deen went on the Today show and wept over accusations of racial and sexual harassment that are destroying her empire.
  • (14) Bhutto's supporters at the hospital wept, smashed the glass doors and started fires around the hospital periphery.
  • (15) So what if Júlio César wept after flying like a bird and saving two penalties?
  • (16) Gary Glitter wept in the dock as he blamed a collapsing career, financial troubles and being in a “bad place” for his decision to download images of men sexually abusing young children on to his computer.
  • (17) "I couldn't stop crying when the final whistle went," wept their centre-half Sam Allardyce.
  • (18) The inscription at the foot of the cathedral's bell tower reads: "When He beheld the city, He wept over it.
  • (19) Earlier, during the bail hearing's third day, Pistorous wept as the defence advocate Barry Roux summed up his case.
  • (20) Some of the senators wept at her story, she said, and then later voted against her.

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