Keeping
['kiːpɪŋ] or ['kipɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) conformity or harmony; 'his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion'.
Checked by Barlow--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Care, custody, charge, guardianship.[2]. Support, maintenance, feed.[3]. Harmony, conformity, congruity, consistency, agreement.
Edited by Annabel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Care, guardianship, maintenance, custody,[See CARE]
Editor: Megan
Examples
- And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The daughter had been found; but only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will have my hands full keeping your neck from beneath the guillotine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Pardon me, Miss Halcombe, he said, still keeping his hand over his face, pardon me if I remind you that I have claimed no such right. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Talk about our keeping slaves, as if we did it for our _convenience_, said Marie. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By not letting the brine get old, or by keeping plenty of salt on it, the meat could be kept in this way for several months, but would be available for use at any time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And the first six months passed away pretty easily, old Sedley still keeping up with the notion that his shares must rise and that all would be well. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I shall find the means I want for keeping it safe and dry in its hiding-place, among the litter of old things in Mrs. Yolland's kitchen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But I am going to confess to you, Fred, that I have been tempted to reverse all that by keeping silence with you just now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My guardian, the picture of a good man, sat down in my place, keeping his hand on Richard's. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This man was lying flat on his face, reaching carefully up with his hands to put a rock in place while keeping his chin flat against the ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The indefinable feeling with which Lady Dedlock had impressed me may have had some influence in keeping me from the house even when she was absent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You, sir, thought fit to withdraw your interests from that keeping nevertheless and to offer them to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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