keep vs supply

keep

verb
  • To supply with necessities and financially support (a person). 

  • To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret). 

  • To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. 

  • To remain edible or otherwise usable. 

  • To remain in a state. 

  • To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate. 

  • To raise; to care for. 

  • To have habitually in stock for sale. 

  • To act as wicket-keeper. 

  • To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book. 

  • To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state. 

  • To restrain. 

  • To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage. 

  • To watch over, look after, guard, protect. 

  • To maintain possession of. 

  • To record transactions, accounts, or events in. 

  • To remain faithful to a given promise or word. 

  • To continue. 

noun
  • The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case. 

  • A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place. 

  • The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance. 

  • The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. 

supply

verb
  • To provide (something), to make (something) available for use. 

  • To furnish or equip with. 

  • To fill up, or keep full. 

  • To act as a substitute. 

  • To serve instead of; to take the place of. 

  • To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of. 

  • To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of. 

adv
  • Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness. 

noun
  • An amount of something supplied. 

  • An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures. 

  • Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute. 

  • Provisions. 

  • The act of supplying. 

How often have the words keep and supply occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )