KEEPING
\kˈiːpɪŋ], \kˈiːpɪŋ], \k_ˈiː_p_ɪ_ŋ]\
Definitions of KEEPING
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
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Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
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Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
By Oddity Software
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Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.
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Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.
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Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A holding; restraint; custody; guard; preservation; maintenance; keep; just proportion; congruity; consistency; a due proportion of light and shade.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Care; custody; just proportion or harmony; in painting, an attention to the proper subserviency of tone and colour in every part of a picture.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. A holding ; restraint ; custody ; guard ; - maintenance ; support ; - just proportion ; conformity ; congruity.
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