Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of holding, guarding, maintaining, or supporting.
- noun Custody; care: synonym: care.
- noun Harmony; conformity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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 (Paint.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art.
- noun [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.] a family sitting room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
conformity orharmony . - noun
charge or care. - verb Present participle of
keep .
from 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
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Examples
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Having made his name keeping surveyors alive, he began to ride with the new ranging companies, who were often the same people who went out to guard surveying teams.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Darwyn Cooke was there at first to help design things, then Cam Stewart did a marvelous job on the title keeping up with Cooke's style.
Top 158 Comic Book Runs #138-129 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a classic partly because of the author's superb writing and intimate knowledge of the monied class (the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" was reportedly first used to describe the wealthy family of her father).
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dave Astor 2011
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I think, for me, a lot of this keeping is about stopping time, holding on to moments.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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It was part of what he called keeping our relationship “low profile.”
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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It was part of what he called keeping our relationship “low profile.”
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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It was part of what he called keeping our relationship “low profile.”
The Season of Risks Susan Hubbard 2010
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He was just finishing up what he called a keeping the peace mission and that's where they go with their Humvee.
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Here Martyn was to do his lessons, and Emily and I carry on our studies, and do what she called keeping up her accomplishments.
Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Others give themselves up to what they call keeping up society, which means being more at home in every person's house than their own; and some do a little weak art, and others a little feeble literature; but there are very few indeed who honestly buckle to the natural duties of their position, and who bear with the tedium of home work as men bear with the tedium of office work.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860
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