keeping

[keepĀ·ing]

The act of retaining something

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A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Noun
the act of keeping in your possession

Noun
the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping"

Noun
conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Keep

n.
A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

n.
Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

n.
Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

n.
Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.


Keeping

Keep"ing, n. 1. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
His happiness is in his own keeping.
2. Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.
3. Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other. 4. (Paint.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping. Keeping room, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.] Syn. -- Care; guardianship; custody; possession.

A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

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Usage Examples

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

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