maintained
part of speech
verb, past tense and past participle of maintain (maintain, maintains, maintained, maintaining); adjective (well-maintained)
meaning for a pupil
1) Kept in good condition by checking and repairing it: a well-maintained car. tree →
2) Kept at the same level or speed: She maintained a speed of 10 km an hour. tree →
3) Kept saying that something is true: He maintained that he was innocent. tree →
4) Paid for and looked after: The park is maintained by the council. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths and science problems «maintained a speed of» means the speed stayed the same, so distance = speed × time. In everyday life roads, bikes and gardens are maintained. In formal exam voice «it is maintained that» means «people say». Noun: maintenance.
examples
- The runner maintained a steady pace all the way. tree →
- The car maintained 60 miles an hour for 2 hours, so it went 120 miles. tree →
- Their garden is beautifully maintained. tree →
- The bridge is maintained by the city council. tree →
- He maintained that he had not taken the cake. tree →
- The temperature was maintained at 20 degrees. tree →
- A well-maintained bike is safer to ride. tree →
- The owner maintained that he had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. tree →
note
Spelling: maintained, but noun maintenance (no «ai» in the middle). «Maintain» in a problem means «no change»: a speed maintained for 3 hours is the same in every hour.
In the corpora
- For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sattest upon the throne as the righteous Judge.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «maintained» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.