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Definition of maintained

Maintained
Maintain Main*tain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maintained; p. pr. & vb. n. Maintaining.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir to hold (L. tenere). See Manual, and Tenable.] 1. 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. 2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. --Grew. 3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak. 4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. --Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. --Franklin. 5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument. It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it. --South. Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.
Maintain
Maintain Main*tain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maintained; p. pr. & vb. n. Maintaining.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the hand; main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir to hold (L. tenere). See Manual, and Tenable.] 1. 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. 2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish. God values . . . every one as he maintains his post. --Grew. 3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail. Maintain talk with the duke. --Shak. 4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed. Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life. --Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. --Franklin. 5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument. It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it. --South. Syn: To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.

Meaning of maintain from wikipedia

- it regards maintenance as the means to maintain the functions a user may require of machinery in a defined operating context.
- the care and servicing by personnel for the purpose of maintaining equipment and facilities in satisfactory operating condition by
- key technical issues are: limited understanding, impact analysis , testing, maintainability measurement. software maintenance is a very
- name aircraft maintenance , image image:field maintenance on a 1956 model cessna 172. jpg , caption field maintenance on a cessna 172 being
- this is in contrast to time- and/or operation count-based maintenance, where a piece of equipment gets maintained whether it needs it or
- date february 2013 file:amsterdam - muziekgebouw - 0420. jpg , a piano tuner and technician at work the piano requires various forms of
- pereira maintains (sostiene pereira) is a 1994 novel by the italian writer antonio tabucchi . it is also known as pereira declares and
- can't maintain is the third studio album by andrew jackson jihad . it was released by asian man records on october 13, 2009.
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- the campaign to maintain the advanced nature of communist party members. (c 保持共产党员先进性教育活动 , p baochi dangyuan de xianjinxing is a political