- keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"
- support: the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- continue: continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
- hold: a cell in a jail or prison
- retain possession of; "Can I keep my old stuffed animals?"; "She kept her maiden name after she married"
- A keep is a strong central tower which is used as a dungeon or a fortress. Often, the keep is the most defended area of a castle, and as such may form the main habitation area, or contain important stores such as the armoury, food, and the main water well, which would ensure survival during a siege.
- KEEP is a commercially-supported FM radio station serving the general area of Fredericksburg, Texas, due west from Austin and due north of San Antonio. KEEP is owned by J & J Fritz Media and is broadcast from Johnson City, Texas. ...
- Arrakis (الراقص al-rāqiṣ, "the dancer") – informally known as Dune and later called Rakis – is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. ...
- The Keep (1997) is the soundtrack to the movie The Keep (1983) by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. A limited run of 150 CDs were sold at a concert by the group in the UK in 1997. ...
- The Keep is a limited series written by American author F. Paul Wilson and drawn by Matthew Dow Smith, published by IDW Publishing
- The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson and Ian McKellen. It was released by Paramount Pictures. The story is based on the F. Paul Wilson novel of the same name, published in 1981 (1982 in the United Kingdom).
- The housing, method, and place of managing and conditioning a dog, and the dog
- A strong stone tower; main tower; donjon; stronghold.
- The fortified stronghold at the centre of the Castle. Originally all the living quarters and stores were also in the Keep.
- A condition added to an XSL-FO file to keep elements together on a page. A keep-together condition keeps all of an element's children together on a page. ...
- The innermost part of a castle. It was, in the early Norman iterations of a castle, the keep was a square tower, the main structure with the jail in the basement, the guardroom on the first floor, and other rooms higher up.
- as in Keep Term, to sleep overnight within three miles of Great St Mary's Church for the requisite number (59 for Michaelmas and Lent, 52 for Easter) of nights within Term. An essential qualification for many degrees.
- Store washed greens wrapped in a clean tea towel or paper towel in a reusable plastic bag or container. Make sure that your refrigerator is not too cold. Lettuce and greens freeze easily and once frozen are ruined.
- including the Commissioner's House, is the home of the Bermuda Maritime Museum;^[88] other buildings at the Dockyard on Ireland Island remain standing but have been converted for commercial purposes.^[89]
- the data with the voice message, even when the message is moved from one user to another.
- The innermost and strongest structure of a medieval castle, the keep was sometimes used as living quarters as well as for defense.
- A component, usually of a rim lock or rim latch, fixed on to the frame to engage a bolt or bolts
- a blockhouse or redoubt built within a larger fort for use as a place of final refuge or last-resort defense. Also called a citadel or cavalier.
- Storage for food, subsistence, keeping. "The milk is in the keep.”