keep to en · VERB
Meanings
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To adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from.
They will have a lot more respect for you if you are honest, rather than not keeping to your deadlines.
2008, E. Jardien, F. Parker, N. Wolhunter, FET College Series Level 3: Construction Carpentry and Roof Work, page 257:Keep to the traveled roads.
No change is noted for two of the statements; if they keep to the speed limits a queue behind them is created and it is more important to adjust to the traffic pace than keeping to the speed limits.
2006, Kerstin Westin, Jörgen Garvill, Agneta Marell, “1.3: Intelligent Speed Adaptation”, in Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, Kerstin Westin, editors, Towards Better Performing Transport Networks, page 76:For example, the legal rule expressed by the provision "All road-users must keep to the right." projects as a possible general condition of the legal system that being road-user causes the obligation to keep to the right.
2001, D. W. Ruiter, Legal Institutions, page 60:2016, unidentified patient, quoted in Judy Gable, Tamara Herrmann, Counselling Skills for Dietitians, 3rd Edition, page 125, I was very good, though – I kept to my diet all the time.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kept to | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| kept to | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| keeping to | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| keeps to | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
keep to one's knitting · keep to oneself
Synonyms
stick to (adhere strictly to)