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MAINTAIN

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maintain verb tranzitiv

1. a menţine, a păstra (ordinea, disciplina etc.).

2. a susţine (un atac, un proces, conversaţia etc.).

3. a întretine (relaţii, corespondenţă etc.).

4. a întreţine (pe cineva).

5. a susţine, a apăra (o cauză);

to maintain one's rights a-şi apăra drepturile.

6. a păstra (un avantaj); a se menţine în (post etc.).

7. a susţine, a pretinde, a afirma;

he maintained that he was innocent pretindea că e nevinovat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

At dinner she maintained her watch, with the same unwinking eyes.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

This we knew, for we still maintained our night-watches.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Edmund had descended from that moral elevation which he had maintained before, and they were both as much the better as the happier for the descent.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He has a wife and family to maintain, and is not to be giving away his time.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

The intense heat from the host star would be far too great to support life, however, and could not maintain liquid water.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

The expected lifetime of each filter system, if correctly maintained, is about 20 years.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

PKA activity and cAMP are reduced during entry into mitosis, but PKA recruited by AKAP95 to condensed chromosomes is essential to maintain the condensed state.

(AKAP8 in Mitosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Caspase-3 activation leads to the degradation of cellular proteins necessary to maintain cell survival and integrity.

(Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

He was jealous of the isolation in which he kept himself in the midst of the pack, and he fought often to maintain it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Lady Russell confessed she had expected something better; but yet it was an acquaintance worth having; and when Anne ventured to speak her opinion of them to Mr Elliot, he agreed to their being nothing in themselves, but still maintained that, as a family connexion, as good company, as those who would collect good company around them, they had their value.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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