Word Finder - keeps

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The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.

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• donjon

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The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.

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He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.

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The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.

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The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

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to be in good keep

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That which is kept in charge; a charge.

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A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

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To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

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to keep silence;  to keep one's word;  to keep possession

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(heading) To hold the status of something.

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(heading) To hold or be held in a state.

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To wait for, keep watch for.

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To act as wicket-keeper.

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Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years.

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To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.

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To be in session; to take place.

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School keeps today.

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To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.

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(by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.

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To observe or celebrate (a holiday).

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The feast of St. Stephen is kept on December 26.

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Keeping

Darkyn always keeps his terms.

He keeps writing little stories about her.

I'm going to be an expert if this keeps up.

He even keeps in touch with some of them.

It wears longest and keeps its "spring" to the last.

This is as important as that it keeps butter cool.

That's what keeps me two steps ahead of the opposition.

He keeps saying we're harassing his client if we even ask questions.

She keeps saying you promised.

It's what keeps the hospital functioning, so we can treat everyone who comes this way.

I'm sorry he keeps calling you.

The range is, however, continued through the province now called Calabria, to the southern extremity or toe of Italy, but presents in this part a very much altered character, the broken limestone range which is the true continuation of the chain as far as the neighbourhood of Nicastro and Catanzaro, and keeps close to the west coast, being flanked on the east by a great mass of granitic mountains, rising to about 6000 ft., and covered with vast forests, from which it derives the name of La Sila.

The growth or increase of the protoplasm at the expense of the nutritive matter for a time keeps pace with the increased size of the cell, but by and by it becomes vacuolated as more and more water is attracted into the interior.

The French secretary of Public Works, who has furnished these statistics, keeps also similar records of the local or light railways, on which the number of fatal accidents appears to be exceedingly small.

Jealousy of everything emanating from Rome still keeps the Eastern churches from correcting the calendar according to the Gregorian reformation, and thus their Easter usually falls before, or after, that of the Western churches, and only very rarely, as was the case in 1865, do the two coincide.

The naked cells which have been alluded to live in water, and call therefore for no differentiation in connection with this necessity; but those which are surrounded by a cell-wall always develop within themselves a vacuole or cavity which occupies the greater part of their interior, and the hydrostatic pressure of whose contents keeps tha protoplasm in contact with the membrane, setting up a condition of turgidity.

In the prose Lancelot his education is complete, he knows his name and parentage, though for some unexplained reason he keeps both secret, and he goes with a fitting escort and equipment to Arthur's court to demand knighthood.

At other times the pest is introduced, and under congenial conditions (and possibly in the absence of some other organism which keeps it in check in its native country) increases accordingly.

The construction of the tombs commonly keeps up the same analogy between the cities of the living and those of the dead.

So what is it that keeps unaltered in the moving triangle ?

No doubt it is still by his romances that Stevenson keeps the wider circle of his readers.

Hence it is probable that in cases where the transport number keeps constant with 00000 0 0.

In the Annales he treats history in strict chronological order and keeps theology in the background.

The blower repeatedly heats the lower part of the mass of glass and keeps it distended by blowing while he swings it over a deep trench which is provided next to his working platform.

The demand constantly increases, and, owing to constant improvements in material in the moulds and in the methods of working, the supply fully keeps pace with the demand.

The French tours modeles were somewhat similar to the Martello towers; their chief use was to serve as keeps to unrevetted works.

It's a blog this doctor guy keeps.

Whoever finds you first, Darkyn keeps you.

I suppose I should be grateful, but it's hard to take care of her when she keeps shoving money back at me.

That's what keeps us going.

I feel terrible asking you this, but it keeps nagging at me.

The warlord's magic keeps them stronger than our enemies expected.

He keeps poking at me to see what I'll do.

She keeps her eye on the object, but adds, like Wordsworth, the visionary gleam, and receives from nature but what she herself gives.

He keeps a record of the play of both sides.

In 1803 he produced El BarOn in its present form; originally written (1791) as a zarzuela, it was shamelessly plagiarized by Andres de Mendoza, but the recast, a far more brilliant work, still keeps the stage.

These attachments, first invented by Jeremiah Howard, and described in the United States Patent Journal in 1858, are simply hydraulic rams fitted into the side or top caps of the mill, and pressing against the side or top brasses in such a manner as to allow the side or top roll to move away from the other rolls, while an accumulator, weighted to any desired extent, keeps a constant pressure on each of the rams. An objection to the top cap arrangement is, that if the volume or feed is large enough to lift the top roll from the cane roll, it will simultaneously lift it from the megass roll, so that the megass will not be as well pressed as it ought to be;' and an objection to the side cap arrangement on the megass roll as well as to the top cap arrangement is, that in case more canes are fed in at one end of the rolls than at the other, the roll will be pushed out farther at one end than at the other; and though it may thus avoid a breakdown of the rolls, it is apt, in so doing, to break the ends off the teeth of the crown wheels by putting them out of line with one another.

Safra to Badr Hunen, whence it keeps near the coast passing Rabigh and Khulesa to Mecca.

The writer, therefore, keeps as close as he can to the letter of his sources, so that quite a late writer often reproduces the very words of the first narrator.

The present caravan road keeps the high ground to the west near the watershed, and avoids the Pass of Michmash altogether.

Dried venom keeps indefinitely, and dissolves readily in water.

It keeps also in glycerine.

It maintains its numbers partly in consequence of its shyness, which keeps it away from the abodes of men, and partly because it is so prolific, bringing forth six to eight young at a litter.

Sanitation decreases the death-rate, religion keeps up the birth-rate.

When the cage arrives at the surface, or rather the platform forming the working top above the mouth of the pit, it is received upon the keeps, a pair of hinged gratings which are kept in an inclined position over the pit-top by counterbalance weights, so that they are pushed aside to allow the cage to pass upwards, but fall back and receive it when the engine is reversed.

The cage is then lifted by the engine clear of the keeps, which are opened by a lever worked by hand, and the empty tubs start on the return trip. When the cage has several decks, it is necessary to repeat this operation for each, unless there is a special provision made for loading and discharging the tubs at different levels.

A weight is moved along the arm of one of the beams until it just keeps the brake steady midway between the stops which must be provided to hold it when the weight fails to do so.

It keeps prisons.

Nitrogen must, however, be applied with caution as it makes the barley rich in albumen, and highly albuminous barley keeps badly and easily loses its germinating capacity.

That is to say, instead of using Boyle's law, which supposes that the pressure changes so exceedingly slowly that conduction keeps the temperature constant, we must use the adiabatic relation p = kpy, whence d p /d p = y k p Y 1= yp/p, and U = (yp/p) [Laplace's formula].