Keep on and Start

Keep on

Keep on verb - Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.

Start and keep on are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Start" instead a verb "Keep on".

Start

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

Keep on and start are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep on" instead a verb "Start".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Video Game / Metal Slug Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the first stage of X, there are a pair of background NPCs who keep on chatting calmly even as you start gunning down mooks.
  • Literature / Great Ship The genes will keep on working until the only thing left is the brain - keep chopping off legs and arms and the genes will start re-purposing largely unneeded organs to regrow them.
  • Anime / Ozuma Grand Theft Me: Eventually, to be able to keep on living since cloned bodies no longer work, the people of Theseus start kidnapping natural born Naturas and stealing their bodies.
    Source: Anime / Ozuma
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