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MAINTAINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Kept in good condition
Synonyms:
kept up; maintained; well-kept
Classified under:
Similar:
preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Continued in your keeping or use or memory
Example:
in...the retained pattern of dancers and guests remembered
Synonyms:
maintained; retained
Classified under:
Similar:
preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb maintain
Context examples:
The cells and scaffolds were maintained in tissue culture for 38 days.
(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)
Players who continued throwing during aging experienced less bone loss on the inside of the bone and maintained even more of the strength benefits.
(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)
When the program uses the handle, the value of the handle tells the system which resource, from the pool of resources maintained by the system, to use.
(Handle, NCI Thesaurus)
Most telomeres are maintained by telomerase.
(Elongation by Telomerase, NCI Thesaurus)
Physician Data Query is an online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(Physician Data Query, NCI Dictionary)
PACs are maintained as circular molecules.
(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)
PDQ is an online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(PDQ, NCI Dictionary)
An online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(PDQ Information System, NCI Dictionary)
I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We have already agreed that secrecy may be necessary, and we must acknowledge that it could not be maintained if their correspondence were to pass through Sir John's hands.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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