Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2012
The word keep It is widely used within our language and stands out because we usually use it in different situations to refer to different questions.
The most common use that we apply to the word is to express the action from which we provide ourselves or the environment in charge, either from food and of those goods that turn out to be necessary for a person's life, such as clothing, Health, education, among others.
The truth is that my current salary is not enough to support my three children. Since the hunger strike began, he has only supported Water.
To conservation of something in its original state or being, with the mission that such a thing does not decomposeWe also express it through the word maintain. This shelter will keep us safe from the fierce storm that is raging outside.
Also, the word keep accounts for the action of holding something with the hand, with the leg or with what was within our reach, to prevent it from falling or twisting. If you don't keep the rope rigid, we won't be able to descend.
Another context in which we frequently use this word is at the behest of discussions to express when someone defends an opinion, an idea, among others. I am going to keep my commitment to Juan so I am not going to vote against him, I want him to continue leading the institution.
On the other hand, maintaining designates another action such as realization of some activity during a certain period of time. We want to keep the group together until after the competence so we will not admit any more disputes.
Meanwhile, the word presents a variety of synonyms for each of its various references being feed, support, conserve and resist the most used failing that.
We also find several terms that assume the task of antonyms to keep as being: fast, which implies abstaining from eating through drinks and food, disengage, which means not taking part when an issue so requires and give up, which is to stop doing something that was being done.