If someone keeps or is kept in a particular state, they remain in it.

If you keep or you are kept in a particular position or place, you remain in it.

If you keep off something or keep away from it, you avoid it. If you keep out of something, you avoid getting involved in it. You can also say that you keep someone off ,away from or out of something.

If someone or something keeps you from a particular action, they prevent you from doing it.

If you try to keep from doing something, you try to stop yourself from doing it.

If you keep something from someone, you do not tell them about it.

If you keep doing something, you do it repeatedly or continue to do it.

Keep is used with some nouns to indicate that someone does something for a period of time or continues to do it. For example, if you keep a grip on something, you continue to hold or control it.

If you keep something, you continue to have it in your possession and do not throw it away, give it away, or sell it.

If you keep something in a particular place, you always have it or store it in that place so that you can use it whenever you need it.

When you keep something such as a promise or an appointment, you do what you said you would do.

If you keep a record of a series of events, you write down details of it so that they can be referred to later.

If you keep yourself or keep someone else, you support yourself or the other person by earning enough money to provide food, clothing, money, and other necessary things.

Someone's keep is the cost of food and other things that they need in their daily life.

If you keep animals, you own them and take care of them.

If you keep a business such as a small shop or hotel, you own it and manage it.

If someone or something keeps you, they delay you and make you late.

If food keeps for a certain length of time, it stays fresh and suitable to eat for that time.

You can say or ask how someone is keeping as a way of saying or asking whether they are well.

A keep is the main tower of a medieval castle, in which people lived.

If you keep at it, you continue doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.

Something that is for keeps is permanent and will not change.

If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.

If one thing is in keeping with another, it is suitable in relation to that thing. If one thing is out of keeping with another, it is not suitable in relation to that thing.

If you keep it up, you continue working or trying as hard as you have been in the past.

If you keep something to yourself, you do not tell anyone else about it.

If you keep yourself to yourself or keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.