keeping (root: keep)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: keep=ing
• COUNT in NET: 32 in 32 verses (in OT : 23 in 23 verses) (in NT : 9 in 9 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

keeping, n. 

•  A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.  [1913 Webster]

  "His happiness is in his own keeping."  [1913 Webster]
•  Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.  [1913 Webster]

  "The work of many hands, which earns my keeping."  [1913 Webster]
•  Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other; his levity is not in keeping with the seriousness of the occasion.  [1913 Webster]
•  Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.  [1913 Webster]

Keeping room, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.]

Syn. -- Care; guardianship; custody; possession.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

keeping, n.
1 custody, charge (in safe keeping).
2 agreement, harmony (esp.in or out of keeping).

THESAURUS

keeping

accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, acquittal, acquittance, adaptation, adaption, adherence, adjustment, administration, agreement, auspices, balance, bilateral symmetry, bottling up, care, carrying out, charge, clinging, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, conservancy, conservation, conservational, conservationism, conservationist, conservative, conservatory, conserving, consistency, conventionality, corking up, correspondence, cure, custodianship, custody, discharge, dynamic symmetry, environmental conservation, equality, equilibrium, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, execution, finish, flexibility, forest conservation, forest management, fulfillment, governance, government, grasping, gripping, guardianship, guarding, guidance, hands, harmony, heed, heeding, hold, holding, holding in, inhibition, jurisdiction, keep, line, locking in, maintenance, malleability, management, ministry, multilateral symmetry, obedience, observance, observation, orthodoxy, oversight, parallelism, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, performance, pliancy, polarity, practice, prehension, preserval, preservation, preservative, preservatory, preserving, preventive custody, proportion, proportionality, protection, protective, protective custody, protectorship, reconcilement, reconciliation, regularity, repression, respect, retainment, retention, retentive, retentiveness, retentivity, safe hands, safekeeping, salvage, salvation, satisfaction, saving, shapeliness, soil conservation, stewardship, stream conservation, strictness, support, suppression, sustentation, symmetricalness, symmetry, tenacious, tenacity, traditionalism, trilateral symmetry, trust, tutelage, uniformity, upkeep, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, water conservation, wetlands conservation, wildlife conservation, wing

ROGET THESAURUS

keeping

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.