Talk:keep

Keep from
Would keep from qualify as a derived term?


 * Yes, absolutely. --Connel MacKenzie 06:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing senses?
There are a few meanings that I'm not sure are already covered:
 * 1) to keep in the sense of "keeping a promise"
 * 2) as in "How are you keeping?", (How are you?) --Hhaayyddnn 11:25, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) I would add "it will keep" as in "it can wait", eg in John Wyndham's Meteor: "I'm not going to have my dinner kept waiting and spoiled. Whatever it is, it will keep." (Also cf eg .) --Droigheann (talk) 12:40, 7 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I think the promise is sense 1: "not to intermit or fall from; to maintain"; we already have "keep one's word" as an example there. Your second one, "how are you keeping?", seems to be part of the third supersense ("to hold or be held in a state"), but it's hard to say which subsense would apply. The third sense (food will keep) is 3.3: "to remain edible or otherwise usable". Equinox ◑ 16:09, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Um... I should have expanded on the context: it's not the dinner that's supposed to "keep", it's an action that's supposed to "keep" while they are eating the dinner. --Droigheann (talk) 19:53, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Similarly in Pratchett's Night Watch:
 * 'Now, where the hell is Carcer?'
 * 'We don't know, sir [...] I'll tell the men to&mdash;'
 * 'No, don't. He'll keep. After all, where's he going to go?'
 * I'm beginning to wonder whether it actually isn't "to remain edible or otherwise usable", only used figuratively. --Droigheann (talk) 16:23, 2 June 2016 (UTC)