Keep
Keep verb - To look after and make decisions about.
Usage example: enlisted a relative to keep the store while she was away
Pilot
Pilot verb - To give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed.
How words are described
| human | human keep | human pilot |
| old | old keep | old pilot |
| good | good keep | good pilot |
| full | full keep | full pilot |
| Other adjectives: best, better, allied, normal, typical, short, original, single, actual, great, main, private, personal. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Despite the fact that they tried to be very faithful to the Elmore Leonard short story the show is based on, a decision was made to reshoot the ending of the pilot and keep the character alive.
Source: Focus Group Ending - In the pilot of Transformers Animated, the Autobots do this trying to keep the AllSpark away from Starscream.
Source: Keep Away -
Leverage has Hardison inventing an earpiece in the pilot that everyone on the team uses throughout the first season to keep in contact over surprisingly vast distances.
Source: Comm Links
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Pilot and Keep. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/pilot
Keep & Pilot. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/pilot>.
Pilot or Keep. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/keep/pilot.
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