Keeping

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  • noun. The act of holding, guarding, maintaining, or supporting.
  • noun. Custody; care: synonym: care.
  • noun. Harmony; conformity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Care; custody; charge.
  • noun. Guardian care; guard; watch.
  • noun. Maintenance; support; subsistence; feed; fodder: as, the cattle have good keeping.
  • noun. Just proportion; conformity; congruity; consistency; harmony: as, his words are not in keeping with his deeds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
  • noun. Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
  • noun. Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency.
  • noun. Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art.
  • noun. a family sitting room.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. conformity or harmony.
  • noun. charge or care.
  • verb. Present participle of keep.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of retaining something
  • noun. the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
  • noun. conformity or harmony