"keep to" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> to"
      },
      "expansion": "keep to (third-person singular simple present keeps to, present participle keeping to, simple past and past participle kept to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (to)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "keep to oneself"
        },
        {
          "word": "keep to one's knitting"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, D. W. Ruiter, Legal Institutions, page 60",
          "text": "For example, the legal rule expressed by the provision \"All road-users must keep to the right.\" projects as a possible general condition of the legal system that being road-user causes the obligation to keep to the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kerstin Westin, Jörgen Garvill, Agneta Marell, “1.3: Intelligent Speed Adaptation”, in Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, Kerstin Westin, editors, Towards Better Performing Transport Networks, page 76",
          "text": "No change is noted for two of the statements; if they keep to the speed limits a queue behind them is created and it is more important to adjust to the traffic pace than keeping to the speed limits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, E. Jardien, F. Parker, N. Wolhunter, FET College Series Level 3: Construction Carpentry and Roof Work, page 257",
          "text": "They will have a lot more respect for you if you are honest, rather than not keeping to your deadlines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2016, unidentified patient, quoted in Judy Gable, Tamara Herrmann, Counselling Skills for Dietitians, 3rd Edition, page 125,\nI was very good, though – I kept to my diet all the time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from."
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_to-en-verb-9qCo3yvd",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "adhere strictly to",
          "word": "stick to"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep to"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "keep to oneself"
    },
    {
      "word": "keep to one's knitting"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> to"
      },
      "expansion": "keep to (third-person singular simple present keeps to, present participle keeping to, simple past and past participle kept to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (to)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, D. W. Ruiter, Legal Institutions, page 60",
          "text": "For example, the legal rule expressed by the provision \"All road-users must keep to the right.\" projects as a possible general condition of the legal system that being road-user causes the obligation to keep to the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kerstin Westin, Jörgen Garvill, Agneta Marell, “1.3: Intelligent Speed Adaptation”, in Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld, Kerstin Westin, editors, Towards Better Performing Transport Networks, page 76",
          "text": "No change is noted for two of the statements; if they keep to the speed limits a queue behind them is created and it is more important to adjust to the traffic pace than keeping to the speed limits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, E. Jardien, F. Parker, N. Wolhunter, FET College Series Level 3: Construction Carpentry and Roof Work, page 257",
          "text": "They will have a lot more respect for you if you are honest, rather than not keeping to your deadlines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2016, unidentified patient, quoted in Judy Gable, Tamara Herrmann, Counselling Skills for Dietitians, 3rd Edition, page 125,\nI was very good, though – I kept to my diet all the time."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To adhere strictly to; not to neglect or deviate from."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "adhere strictly to",
      "word": "stick to"
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep to"
}