different between garage vs keep

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage (“keeping under cover, protection, shelter”), derivative of French garer (“to keep under cover, dock, shunt, guard, keep”), from Middle French garer, garrer, guerrer; partly from Old French garir, warir (from Old Frankish *warjan); and partly from Old French varer (“to fight, defend oneself, protect”), from Old Norse varask (“to defend oneself”), reflexive of vara (“to ware, watch out, defend”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjan? (“to defend, ward off”), *war?n? (“to watch, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand, General South African, India) IPA^(key): /??æ???(d)?/
• (UK, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??æ??d?/
  • Rhymes: -æ??d?
• (US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /??????(d)?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?(?)??æ(d)?/
• Hyphenation: ga?rage

Noun

garage (countable and uncountable, plural garages)

1. A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
2. (chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and dated, 20th century, in Canada, US) A place where cars are serviced and repaired.

   Synonyms: auto shop, car workshop, vehicle workshop

3. (chiefly Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A petrol filling station.
4. (aviation) A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
5. A side way or space in a canal to enable vessels to pass each other; a siding.
6. (attributive, music) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage; garage rock.
7. (Britain, music) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds; UK garage.

Usage notes

Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.

Synonyms

• (a petrol filling station): filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK), service station

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

garage (third-person singular simple present garages, present participle garaging, simple past and past participle garaged)

1. To store in a garage.

   We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.

Translations

References

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Noun

garage c (singular definite garagen, plural indefinite garager)

1. garage (building (or section of a building) used to store a car, tools and other miscellaneous items.)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a??ra?.??/
• Hyphenation: ga?ra?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. A garage (repair shop for motorised vehicles).
2. A garage (building or room for storing and modifying motorised vehicles).

Derived terms

• garagedeur
• garagehouder
• parkeergarage

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: garasi

French

Etymology

garer +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?a?/

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. garage

Derived terms

• vente de garage
• voie de garage

Descendants

Further reading

• “garage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gagera

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French garage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ra?/
• Hyphenation: ga?ràge

Noun

garage m (invariable)

1. garage (domestic storage for a car)
2. garage (motor repair facility)

   Synonym: autorimessa

Derived terms

• garagista

References

• garage in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Noun

garage m (plural garages)

1. (Jersey) garage

Derived terms

• garagiste (“garage-keeper”)

Spanish

Noun

garage m (uncountable)

1. garage (music genre)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?r???/, (south Sweden) /?a?r???/

Noun

garage n

1. garage; a building (or section of a building) used to store a car

Declension

Related terms

• garagedörr
• garageplats

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?p, IPA^(key): /ki?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology

From Middle English kepen (“to keep, guard, look after, watch”), from Old English c?pan (“to seize, hold, observe”), from Proto-Germanic *k?pijan? (compare West Frisian kypje (“to look”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ab-, *??b- (“to look after”) (compare Lithuanian ž?bti (“to eat reluctantly”), Russian ??????? (zabóta, “care, worry”)).

Verb

keep (third-person singular simple present keeps, present participle keeping, simple past and past participle kept)

1. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     Both day and night did we keep company.

   • c. 1749, Tobias Smollett, The Regicide, Act V, Scene 5, in Plays and Poems Written by T. Smollett, M.D., London: T. Evans and R. Baldwin, 1777, p. 106,^[2]

     Within the portal as I kept my watch,

2. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
   1. To maintain possession of.

   2. (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
   3. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.

   4. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
   5. (archaic) To remain in, to be confined to.
      • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, III.ii,

        The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.

      • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 71:

        The following day she was so ill that she kept her bed; the husband went not once to enquire for her, nor did he send any message: he also kept his apartment, and was heard walking backwards and forwards with a hurried pace the whole of that day.
   6. To restrain.

   7. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

        cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond […].

   8. To supply with necessities and financially support a person.

   9. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
      • 1914, Robert Joos, Success with Hens, Forbes & company, p.217:

        Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
   10. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
       • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2,^[4]

         like a pedant that keeps a school

       • 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, p. 114,^[5]

         They were honourably accompanied and with great estate brought to London, where euery of them kept house by himselfe.

       • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

   11. To have habitually in stock for sale.
3. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
   1. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
      • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act V, Scene 2,^[6]

        Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,

        To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;

   2. To continue.
   3. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
      • 1707, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry

        If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep.

   4. (copulative) To remain in a state.

4. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
5. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale, A Pathway into the holy Scripture in The Whole Workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, London: John Day, 1573, p. 384,^[7]

     […] kepe that the lustes choke not the word of God that is sowen in vs,

7. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.

8. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 2 Timothy 4.7,^[8]

     I have kept the faith:

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, London, Book 7, lines 1271-1272,^[9]

     Be strong, live happie, and love, but first of all

     Him whom to love is to obey, and keep

     His great command;

9. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
   • c. 1608, John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, Act III, Scene 1,^[10]

     […] ’tis hallowed ground;

     No Maid seeks here her strayed Cow, or Sheep,

     Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep:

10. (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).

Synonyms

• (maintain possession of): retain
• (maintain the condition of): preserve, protect
• (to reside for a time): See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Derived terms

Pages starting with “keep”.

Related terms

• for keeps

Translations

Noun

keep (countable and uncountable, plural keeps)

1. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.

   Synonym: donjon

2. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.

3. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.

4. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

5. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.

6. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

Derived terms

• earn one's keep

Translations

See also

• donjon

Anagrams

• Ekpe, PEEK, Peek, Peke, kepe, peek, peke

Dutch

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?p/
• Hyphenation: keep
• Rhymes: -e?p
• Homophone: cape

Noun

keep f (plural kepen, diminutive keepje n)

1. notch, carven mark

   Synonyms: inkeping, kerf

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “cf. West Frisian "keepfink", prob. a borrowing”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?p/
• Hyphenation: keep
• Rhymes: -e?p
• Homophone: cape

Noun

keep m (plural kepen, diminutive keepje n)

1. brambling, Fringilla montifringilla

Etymology 3

Shortening of keeper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kip/
• Hyphenation: keep
• Rhymes: -ip
• Homophone: kiep

Noun

keep m (plural keeps)

1. (ball games, chiefly soccer, colloquial) goalkeeper

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

keep (genitive keebi, partitive keepi)

1. cloak, capote, gaberdine

Declension

Middle English

Noun

keep

1. notice; note; observance

   take keep — “take note”

   • And shame it is, if a preest take keep

     A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?p?/

Noun

keep (plural keepo?ob)

1. (anatomy) penis

Synonyms

• toon