Maintain means to keep the same––keep steady, keep up, or keep going. Sure, you can ride your bike super fast on a flat surface, but it can be hard to maintain that speed, or keep the same speed, going up a hill.
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline;
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observe correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees"
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support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict"
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state categorically
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state or assert; "He maintained his innocence"
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maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes"
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supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There''s little to earn and many to keep"
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maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"
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of power or authority
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keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the an
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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"
v. t.
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition;
to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or
decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to
maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or
powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain
present reputation.
v. t.
To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to
surrender or relinquish.
v. t.
To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
v. t.
To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to
supply with what is needed.
v. t.
To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
Maintain
God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.3.
Maintain talk with the duke.4.
Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.5.
It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline;
Usage Examples
'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
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Other Usage ExamplesAny knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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