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keep
1. v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession
2. v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
3. v. To maintain possession of.
I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.
4. v. To maintain the condition of.
I keep my specimens under glass to protect them.
The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours.
5. v. To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
I used to keep a diary.
6. v. To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
7. v. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to.
8. v. To restrain.
I keep my brother out of trouble by keeping him away from his friends and hard at work.
9. v. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
May the Lord keep you from harm.
10. v. To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
He kept a mistress for over ten years.
11. v. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
He has been keeping orchids since retiring.
12. v. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
13. v. To have habitually in stock for sale.
14. v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
15. v. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
She kept to her bed while the fever lasted.
16. v. To continue.
I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail.
17. v. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.
Latex paint won't keep indefinitely.
18. v. (copulative) To remain in a state.
The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still.
Keep calm! There's no need to panic.
19. v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
20. v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years.
21. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
22. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
School keeps today.
23. v. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
24. v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.
25. v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
26. n. (obsolete) Care, notice
27. n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
28. n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
29. n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
30. n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
to be in good keep
31. n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
32. n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
vamping
1. v. present participle of vamp
2. n. The behaviour of one who vamps.
3. n. camping by vampires
vamp
1. n. The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
2. n. Something added to give an old thing a new appearance; a patch.
3. n. Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
4. n. (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate d
5. n. (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
6. v. To patch, repair, or refurbish.
7. v. Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
8. v. To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
9. v. (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp, , a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for
10. v. (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
11. v. (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
12. v. (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
Keep vamping! Something’s wrong with the mic!
She went out there to vamp since the speaker was late arriving.
13. n. A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
14. n. (informal) A vampire.
15. v. To seduce or exploit someone.
16. n. (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
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wrong
1. adj. Incorrect or untrue.
Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
2. adj. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
3. adj. Immoral, not good, bad.
It is wrong to lie.
4. adj. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
5. adj. Not working; out of order.
Something is wrong with my cellphone.
Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
6. adj. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
7. adj. (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
a wrong nose
8. adv. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
9. n. Something that is immoral or not good.
Injustice is a heinous wrong.
10. n. An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
11. n. The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
12. n. The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
13. v. To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
14. v. To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
15. v. To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
with
1. prep. Against.
He picked a fight with the class bully.
2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
He went with his friends.
3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
5. prep. In support of.
We are with you all the way.
6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
slain with robbers
7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
cut with a knife
8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
9. prep. Having, owning.
10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
Do you want to come with?
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12. n. alternative form of withe
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
mic
1. n. Alternative form of mike
2. v. Alternative form of mike
If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

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